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— ART HISTORY & IMAGE STUDIES — ARTH341 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Fall 2012 The New Art of the Renaissance and the Emergence of the Artist

September 5

Introduction Requirements Topics

DISCUSSION: Renaissance Art & Artists Questions about the Renaissance in Italy Renaissance (Oxford Art Online) Gothic (Oxford Art Online) Renaissance Art (Wikipedia) Italian Renaissance Painting (Wikipedia) Medieval Art (Wikipedia) Byzantine Art (Wikipedia)

September 12

Art & Artists

DISCUSSION: Talent, Creativity, Genius READING: The Artist in the Renaissance The Rise of the Artist The New Ideal of the Artist Genius and Madness The Artist's Nature Michelangelo on the subject of Italian and Flemish Painting ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Bruce Cole, The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (New York: Harper & Row, 1983): Cochran Library N6370 .C56 1983 Rudolph Wittkower and Margot Wittkower, Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (New York: Random House, 1963): Cochran Library N71 .W54 Bruce Cole, Italian Art, 1250-1550: The Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1987): Randolph College 709.45 C68i 1987

September 19

Art & Nature

DISCUSSION: Learning from Mother Nature READING: Boccaccio, Cennini, Ghiberti, Leonardo (excerpts) The Renaissance Concept of Nature Vasari and Ancient Statues ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Mary Garrard, Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010): Randolph College 709.024 G23b 2010 see also here Giotto (Oxford Art Online) Natura naturans (Wikipedia) Natura naturata (Wikipedia)

September 26

Art & Antiquity

DISCUSSION: Ancient statues READING: Lorenzo Ghiberti, excerpts from his "Commentaries" Mantegna and Ancient Statues Vasari and Ancient Statues ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Lorenzo Ghiberti (Oxford Art Online) The Renaissance Rediscovery of Antiquity (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) Richard Krautheimer, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1956): Cochran Library NB 623 .G45 K7

October 3

Art & Proportion

DISCUSSION: Proportion READING: Proportion Proportion (architecture) (Wikipedia) Body Proportions (Wikipedia) Symmetrical Portraits (Huffington Post) ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Piero della Francesca (Oxford Art Online) Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Oxford Art Online) Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford Art Online) Leonardo's Anatomical Studies Sandro Botticelli (Oxford Art Online)

October 10

The Business of Painting

DISCUSSION: The Conditions of Trade READING: Baxandall, Part 1 "The Conditions of Trade" pages 1-27 ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Giovanni Rucellai (Oxford Art Online) Domenico Ghirlandaio Andrea Mantegna Piero della Francesca Sandro Botticelli Filippino Lippi Pietro Perugino

October 17

The Period Eye 1

DISCUSSION: The Period Eye READING: Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108 Period Eye (Wikipedia) FIRST SEMINAR REPORT - 1 BAXANDALL 1 Nos. 1, 2, 3 (pages 29-40): Cody Anders

October 24

The Period Eye 2

DISCUSSION: The Period Eye READING: Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108 Period Eye (Wikipedia) FIRST SEMINAR REPORT - 2 BAXANDALL 2 Nos. 4, 5 (pages 40-56): Sloane Victor 3 No. 6 (pages 56-70): Ann Roach

October 31

Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art - 1

DISCUSSION: Surfaces READING: Alberti, On Painting, 1-32, and Book I, pages 34-35, 37-54 Leon Battista Alberti (On Painting: English text) SECOND SEMINAR REPORT - 1 ALBERTI 1 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pages 37-40): Cody Anders

November 7

Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art - 2

DISCUSSION: Visual rays READING: Alberti, On Painting, Book I, pages 34-35, 37-54 SECOND SEMINAR REPORT - 2 ALBERTI 2 Nos. 6, 7, 8 (pages 40-44): Ann Roach 3 Nos. 9, 10, 11 (pages 44-46): Sloane Victor

November 14

Alberti and Perspective

DISCUSSION: Perspective READING: Alberti, On Painting, Book I, Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (pages 54-59) Perspective ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1957): Cochran Library NC750 .W48 1957

November 21

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November 28

Alberti on Painting and Composition - 1

Seminar Paper Topic Selection DISCUSSION: Painting & Composition READING: Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86 SUMMARY REPORT — 1 ALBERTI 1 Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 (pages 60-64): Sloane Victor 2 Nos. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 (pages 64-71): Ann Roach

December 5

Alberti on Painting and Composition - 2

DISCUSSION: Painting & Composition READING: Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86 SUMMARY REPORT — 2 ALBERTI 3 Nos. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 (pages 71-77): Cody Anders

December 12

High Renaissance & Mannerism

Seminar Paper Due DISCUSSION: Renaissance and Mannerist Art READING: Giorgio Vasari (preface to the Third Part of the Lives) Mannerism ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:

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