ART A survey of architecture, sculpture and painting of Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic periods from the fourth to the fourteen centuries in relationship to philosophical and socioeconomic developments. Emphasis on Hagia Sophia, Aachen Chapel, Saint Denis and the French cathedrals. At no other time in history were technology, science and art so closely interconnected. Discussion will focus on the achievement of Italian artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as they attempted to translate their new scientific understanding of the world. The study of American painting, sculpture and architecture from the Colonial Period to the end of the nineteenth century seen in relation to European developments and American social and technological changes.
Emphasis is placed on New England architecture.
A study of painting, sculpture and architecture in Florence, Rome and Venice during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A study on the impact of the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century, the subsequent development of early Mannerism in central Italy and the formation of the Proto-Baroque style in Venice and Northern Italy, the establishment of the courtly Mannerist style. The role of representative artists such as Anguissola, Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Beccafumi, Fontana, Vasari, Veronese, Bandinelli, Cellini, Palladio, Peruzzi and Ammanati is emphasized. The development of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy during the seventeenth century with special emphasis on Rome and Venice. The examination of seventeenth century painting outside Italy with emphasis on Dutch, Flemish, Spanish and French Art.