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— ART HISTORY & IMAGE STUDIES —

ARTH341 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Spring 2014


The New Art of the Renaissance
and the Emergence of the Artist

January 27 Introduction
Requirements

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
Renaissance (Oxford Art Online)
Gothic (Oxford Art Online)
Renaissance Art (Wikipedia)
Italian Renaissance Painting (Wikipedia)
Mannerism (Wikipedia)
Medieval Art (Wikipedia)
Byzantine Art (Wikipedia)


14th Century (Trecento)
February 3
February 10
Art, Artists, & Nature

READING:
Giorgio Vasari: Preface to the First Part of the Lives
The Artist in the Renaissance
Vasari – Cimabue
Vasari – Giotto
The story of Giotto
The Renaissance Concept of Nature

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
Giotto (Oxford Art Online)
Cimabue (Web Gallery of Art)
Giotto (Web Gallery of Art)
Natura naturans (Wikipedia)
Natura naturata (Wikipedia)


15th Century (Quattrocento)
February 17 Art & Antiquity

READING:
Giorgio Vasari: Preface to the Second Part of the Lives
Lorenzo Ghiberti, excerpts from his "Commentaries"
Mantegna and Ancient Statues
Proportion
Pythagoras and Musical Proportion

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Antiquity (Heilbrunn Timeline)
Lorenzo Ghiberti (Oxford Art Online)
Piero della Francesca (Oxford Art Online)
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Oxford Art Online)
Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford Art Online)
Leonardo's Anatomical Studies (Web Gallery of Art)
Sandro Botticelli (Oxford Art Online)


February 24 The Business of Painting

READING:
Baxandall, Part 1 "The Conditions of Trade" pages 1-27

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
Giovanni Rucellai (Oxford Art Online)
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Web Gallery of Art)
Andrea Mantegna (Web Gallery of Art)
Piero della Francesca (Web Gallery of Art)
Sandro Botticelli (Web Gallery of Art)
Filippino Lippi (Web Gallery of Art)
Pietro Perugino (Web Gallery of Art)


March 3 Class Cancelled (snow)
March 10 SPRING BREAK


March 17
March 24
The Period Eye

READING:
Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108

Period Eye (Wikipedia)

Seminar Reports 1
March 17 Elizabeth Wise: pages 29–71 (1–6)
March 24 Lizzie Newhart: pages 71–108 (7–11)


March 31
April 7
April 14
Alberti and the New Theory of Art

READING:
Alberti, On Painting, 1-32 (Introduction)
Alberti, On Painting, Book I, pages 34–59
Leon Battista Alberti (On Painting: English text)

Seminar Reports 2
March 31 Elizabeth Wise: pages 36–48 (1–12)
April 7 class cancelled
April 14 Lizzie Newhart: pages 48–59 (13–24)


April 21 Alberti on Painting and Composition

READING:
Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86

Summary Reports
Elizabeth Wise: pages 60–74 (25–37)
Lizzie Newhart: pages 74–86 (38–50)


16th Century (Cinquecento)
April 28 High Renaissance & Mannerist Art

READING:
Giorgio Vasari: Preface to the Third Part of the Lives
Mannerism
The Rise of the Artist
The New Ideal of the Artist
Michelangelo on the subject of Italian and Flemish Painting


May 5 Art and Creative Genius
Paper due

READING:
Genius and Madness
The Artist's Nature


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