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— ART HISTORY & IMAGE STUDIES — ARTH341 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Fall 2015 The New Art of the Renaissance in Italy and the Emergence of the Artist

September 2

Introduction Requirements

DISCUSSION: Art and Artists in Renaissance Italy 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 9 September 16

Art and 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 and 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 and Row, 1987): Randolph College 709.45 C68i 1987

September 24

Art and Nature

DISCUSSION: Learning from Mother Nature READING: Boccaccio, Cennini, Ghiberti, Leonardo (excerpts) The Renaissance Concept of Nature 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 30

Art and Antiquity

DISCUSSION: Ancient statues READING: Lorenzo Ghiberti, excerpts from his "Commentaries" Mantegna and Ancient Statues Vasari and Ancient Statues ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Richard Krautheimer, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1956): Cochran Library NB 623 .G45 K7 Lorenzo Ghiberti, I Commentarii (Julius von Schlosser, 1912) Lorenzo Ghiberti (Oxford Art Online) The Renaissance Rediscovery of Antiquity (Heilbrunn Timeline)

October 7

Art and Proportion

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

October 14

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 21 October 28

The Period Eye

DISCUSSION: The Period Eye READING: Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108 Period Eye (Wikipedia) FIRST SEMINAR REPORT BAXANDALL 1 Nos. 1–6 (pages 29-71): Grace Culley 2 Nos. 7–11 (pages 71-108): Mariah Miller

November 4 November 11 November 18

Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art

DISCUSSION: Surfaces, Visual Rays, and Perspective Seminar Paper Topic Selection READING: Alberti, On Painting, 1-32, and Book I, pages 34-35, 37-54 Leon Battista Alberti (On Painting: English text) Perspective SECOND SEMINAR REPORT ALBERTI 1 pages 36-48 (Nos. 1–12): Mariah Miller 2 pages 48–59 (Nos. 13–24): Grace Culley ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1957): Cochran Library NC750 .W48 1957

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December 2

Alberti on Painting and Composition

DISCUSSION: Painting and Composition READING: Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86 SUMMARY REPORTS ALBERTI 1 pages 60-74 (Nos. 25–37): Grace Culley 2 pages 74-86 (Nos. 38–50): Mariah Miller

December 9

High Renaissance and Mannerism

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

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