African Art Study of Africa's chief forms of visual art from prehistoric times to the present. Explores the changing cultural context and institutions that support or inhibit women's artistic activity and help to shape their public presentation. Some background in either art history or women's studies is desirable. The work of Michelangelo in sculpture, painting and architecture, studied in relation to his contemporaries in Italy and the North. Study of preparatory drawings, letters, poems and documents.
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Representative subjects include the life and art of Pompeii, Roman painting and mosaics, history and connoisseurship of Baroque prints, art and politics in revolutionary Europe, Picasso and painting, and problems in American art and culture. Thesis A thesis of approximately 50 written pages is researched and written during the fall and spring semesters by art history majors in their fourth year who have been accepted into the department's Distinguished Majors Program. Required of all incoming art history graduate students. A survey of Roman architecture in Italy and the Roman Empire from the Republic to Constantine, with special emphasis on developments in the city of Rome. Permission of instructor Study of the major and minor masters of the Quattrocento in Florence, Siena, Central Italy, Venice and North Italy.