Credit 3 units. This course examines artistic production at the turn of the century in France, Belgium, England and Scandanavia. Credit 3 units. Same as L79 EuSt 3838. The course deals with the theory of connoisseurship, an approach to the study of the history of art based on examination and direct knowledge of works of art.
Readings emphasize various approaches to connoisseurship.
Students experience the practice side of connoisseurship doing research and writing papers about specific works of art in the collections of the Washington University Gallery of Art and St. Louis Art Museum. During the 20th century, enormous shifts occurred in exhibition design as artwork projected from the walls of the museum, moved outdoors to the space of the street, and eventually went online. During the seminar, we will examine how issues such as patronage, avant-gardism, nationalism, and identity politics have progressively brought museums and other exhibition spaces into question. Credit 3 units. The seminar is designed to research the rich world of Greek and Roman coinage by using the university's own resources, the J.M. Wulfing collection of coins which is housed at the Washington University Gallery of Art.