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— ART HISTORY & IMAGE STUDIES —

ARTH341 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Fall 2012


Paper Topics

4 – 6 pages

  1. "Composition is the procedure in painting whereby the parts are composed together in the picture" (Alberti, On Painting).
    Discuss

  2. "I would have the painter first of all be a good man, well versed in the liberal arts" (Alberti, On Painting).
    Discuss

  3. "A fifteenth-century painting is the deposit of a social relationship" (Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy).
    Discuss