Course Description. Course Learning Outcomes. RENAISSANCE ART & ARCHITECTURE in Fall 2018 (AH2013)

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1 RENAISSANCE ART & ARCHITECTURE in Fall 2018 (AH2013) Course Code AH2013 Professor(s) Mathilde Bert Prerequisites None Office Number C-504 Class Schedule MR: 13:45-15:05 in C-101 R: 15:20-16:40 in V-1 Office Hours Mon. 15h30-16h30 and by appointment Credits 4 mbert@aup.edu Semester Fall 2018 Office Tel. Ext. Course Description This course is an exploration of Renaissance art beginning in the thirteenth century with Giotto, and extending through to the late sixteenth century. One of the primary goals of this course is to analyze works of art in their specific historical contexts whether religious, intellectual, political or social. We will examine artistic production in the main urban centers for art chronologically, in order to identify the major stages and transversal questions that characterize this rich and crucial period in the history of European art. The course will offer a general view of the protagonists (both artists and patrons), the contexts of creation, functions of images, techniques, chronological frameworks, stylistic trends, and iconographies of Renaissance art. More precisely, we will trace the constantly evolving approach to the human figure, the depiction of three-dimensional space and the visualization of narrative, as well as developing ideas about the status of the artist and the nature of artistic creativity within the newly emergent genres of art theory and art history, in both Italy and Northern Europe. To succeed in this course, students should come prepared to the class lectures, having done the required readings, and be ready to participate in discussions. Should anything be unclear (regarding the syllabus, the assignments, a specific issue discussed in class, or any other matter), I invite students to bring their questions to me after class, or to me. Course Learning Outcomes In addition, students will engage with secondary texts in art history in order to refine their critical evaluation of such scholarship and gain an awareness of the methodologies of the field. Ultimately this course aims to equip students with the skills necessary to formulate complex theses that address both formal artistic concerns and historical circumstances. Students will become familiar with important artistic and cultural trends of the period We will examine a range of primary sources, both visual and textual, and learn to understand 1 / 8

2 the different ways in which these sources communicated through style, language, and structure Close visual observation will inform written formal analysis. General Education Course Outline The schedule is subject to slight change. Note: the readings that are not from your required purchase will be either posted on our Blackboard site or are available on-line through JSTOR or the AUP library website. Monday, September 10th INTRODUCTION: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY RENAISSANCE? Thursday, September 13th HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Readings : Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience, ch. 1 : the conditions of trade, 1-27; Paoletti and Radke, Introduction, 12-22, 27 ( Contemporary voice ). Monday, September 17th VASARI S LIVES AND THE BEGINNING OF ART HISTORY Readings : Giorgio Vasari, Preface to Part Two, from The Lives of the Artists (Oxford University Press, 2008), 47-58*; Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz, Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist: a Historical Experiment (New Haven and London, 1979), 1-12*; Paoletti and Radke, Introduction, Historiography and Methodology, Thursday, September 20th I PRIMI LUMI. FLORENCE AND SIENA IN THE EARLY TRECENTO Readings: Giorgio Vasari, Life of Giotto, from The Lives of the Artists (Oxford University Press, 2008), 16-36*; Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. I: The Late Thirteenth and the 2 / 8

3 Fourteenth Century, 55, THE AUGUMENTO : INNOVATIONS IN FLORENTINE ART Monday, September 24th A) The Competition of 1401 and the Leading Role of Sculpture Readings: Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, , , Thursday, September 27th No class Professor at a conference Monday, October, 1st B) A stylistic shift towards Rome? Brunelleschi, Alberti and Michelozzo Readings: Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural principle in the age of Humanism (London, 1949), part I, The Centrally Planned Church and the Renaissance, 1-28*; Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, , , , Thursday, October, 4th C) Tuscan Painting between Austerity and Abundance (DOUBLE SESSION) Readings: Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford, 1972), *; Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, , ? Paper #1 due at the beginning of the class. Monday, October 8th JAN VAN EYCK, ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, AND THE ARS NOVA Readings: Karel Van Mander, Life of Jan van Eyck, from The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, ed. H. Miedema (Doornspijck, 1994), v. 1, 54-98*; James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005), Ch.5: Jan van Eyck, ?Recommended: James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005), Ch. 6: Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden, Additional Recommended Reading: Susie Nash, Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford, 2008), Chapter 1 and 2, / 8

4 Thursday, October 11th Louvre Visit 1:45pm Monday, October15th COURTLY TASTE: NAPLES, URBINO, FERRARA AND MANTUA Readings: Alison Cole, Italian Renaissance Courts: Arts, Pleasure and Power (London 2016), Ch.1: Art and Princely Magnificence, 30-57*. Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, , , Thursday, October 18th Louvre Visit 1:45pm Monday, October 22th Midterm Exam Thursday, October 25th ANTIQUARIANISM AND MYTHOLOGIES Readings: Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. Cecil Grayson (London, repr. 2004), Book III, *Luba Freedman, Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting (Cambridge, 2011), Ch.1: The Fascination with Classical Myths, * Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, Monday, October 29th DÜRER AND THE RENAISSANCE IN GERMANY Reading: Erwin Panofsky, Erasmus and the Visual Arts, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 32, 1969, *. Thursday 1st November Fall break-no class THE HIGH RENAISSANCE: LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO AND RAPHAEL Monday, November 5th A) Leonardo s experiments 4 / 8

5 Readings Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci from The Lives of the Artists (Oxford University Press, 2008), *. Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, , , , Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, Paper #2 due at the beginning of the class. Thursday, November 8th B) Raphael, the prince of painters Readings: David Rosand, Raphael s School of Athens and the Artist of the Modern Manner, in The World of Savonarola: Italian Elites and the Perception of Crisis, *. Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, , Monday, November 12th C) The Divine Michelangelo? Readings: Bernadine Barnes, Michelangelo s Last Judgment: the Renaissance Response (Berkeley, CA, 1998), The Last Judgment and the Critics, *; Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, , , , Ch. IV: The Later Sixteenth Century, Thursday, November 15th THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE Readings: James S. Ackerman, Palladio (Harmondsworth, 1966), chap. 4 Ecclesiastical Architecture, *. Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, , ; Ch. IV: The Later Sixteenth Century, (St. Peter s). Monday, November 19th MANIERA AND MANNERISM IN FLORENCE? Readings: Giorgio Vasari, Preface to Part Three, from The Lives of the Artists (Oxford University Press, 2008), *; Walter Friedlaender, Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism, 2nd ed. (New York, 1990), The Anti-Classical Style, 3-43.* Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, Thursday, November 22nd MANNERISM, AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE Reading: Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth 5 / 8

6 Century, ; Ch. IV: The Later Sixteenth Century, PAINTING IN VENICE Monday, November 26th The beginning of the Renaissance in Venice Readings: Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Giorgione da Castelfranco, from The Lives of the Artists (Oxford University Press, 2008), ; David Alan Brown, Venetian Painting and the Invention of Art, in Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting (Washington, DC, 2006), 15-37*. Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. II: The Fifteenth Century, ; Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, , Thursday, November 29th Venetian colorito I. Titian Readings: Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, ; Monday, December 3rd Venetian colorito I. Veronese and Tintoretto Readings: Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Ch. III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century, , 504. Thursday, December 6th Louvre Visit 1:45pm Monday, December 10th WOMEN ARTISTS: SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA, LAVINIA FONTANA, AND CATHERINA VAN HEEMESSEN Readings: Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 35, *; Frederika H. Jacobs, Woman s Capacity to Create: The Unusual Case of Sofoniba Anguissola, Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): * Thursday, December 20th FINAL EXAM 12:00 pm ***Please note that all readings marked with an* may be the subject of an assigned reading 6 / 8

7 presentation in class. These presentations will be 5-10 minutes long, and include an overview of critical arguments and questions for discussion. Textbooks Title Author Publisher ISBN Required Paoletti: Art in Paoletti Laurence King Yes Renaissance Italy Attendance Policy Students studying at The American University of Paris are expected to attend ALL scheduled classes, and in case of absence, should contact their professors to explain the situation. It is the student s responsibility to be aware of any specific attendance policy that a faculty member might have set in the course syllabus. The French Department, for example, has its own attendance policy, and students are responsible for compliance. Academic Affairs will excuse an absence for students participation in study trips related to their courses. Attendance at all exams is mandatory. IN ALL CASES OF MISSED COURSE MEETINGS, THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMMUNICATION WITH THE PROFESSOR, AND FOR ARRANGING TO MAKE UP MISSED WORK, RESTS SOLELY WITH THE STUDENT. Whether an absence is excused or not is ALWAYS up to the discretion of the professor or the department. Unexcused absences can result in a low or failing participation grade. In the case of excessive absences, it is up to the professor or the department to decide if the student will receive an F for the course. An instructor may recommend that a student withdraw, if absences have made it impossible to continue in the course at a satisfactory level. Students must be mindful of this policy when making their travel arrangements, and especially during the Drop/Add and Exam Periods. Grading Policy 7 / 8

8 Powered by TCPDF ( -Attendance/Participation: 15% (This will include your reading presentations) -Paper #1 (due Oct. 4): 15% -Midterm: 20% -Paper#2 (due Nov. 5): 25% -Final Exam: 25% Other CLASSROOM DECORUM: Since classes at AUP are small, it is extremely important to be considerate of your fellow classmates and your professors. I ask that the following measures be respected in my class: 1. You are expected to arrive on time. If you are more than 10 minutes late, you may be asked to leave, since it will be counted in any case as an absence (rather than as lateness). 2. Class lasts only one hour and twenty minutes. Please use the facilities before or after. 3. No eating allowed in class. 4. All phones & other electronic devices MUST be turned off for the duration of the class. The one exception is that I will allow you to take notes on a tablet/laptop. However, if it becomes clear that you are using the device for purposes other than taking notes (i.e. Facebook, etc.), you will be asked to turn off your computer immediately for the rest of that class. If it happens again, you will lose the privilege of using your device to take notes in my class for the rest of the semester. 8 / 8

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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS Course Information: AHST 3315.09M Art of the Italian Renaissance Summer II, 2015 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-5:15 p.m. JSOM 11.201 Instructor s Contact Information: Dr.