This course encourages responses to art and design through close observation and a knowledge of events and ideas that influenced works during the Victorian period. This course will introduce students to research methodology specific to the study of art history. The distinctive language of art and art history is studied, and students develop skills in the description, analysis, and comparison of works of art. Students are trained to use their eyes as well as research methods in study, and then to record their observations in a variety of ways. Semester Hours A survey of Western tradition in art from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Medieval period.
Emphasis is placed on architecture, sculpture, and the decorative arts.
The course will examine Greek temples and their sculptural decoration, major Roman building types, the Byzantine heritage, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe. An examination of European traditions in painting, sculpture, architecture, and printmaking from 1400-1750. The course concentrates on the Italian Renaissance, art north of the Alps, and aspects of Counter-Reformation art in Spain and Italy. This course examines painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe from the late sixteenth century to 1850. This course considers the huge influence that art from East Asia and Africa had on the development of 20th century European painting and sculpture.