— ART HISTORY & IMAGE STUDIES —

ARTH 341 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

August 30

Introduction Giovanni d'Alemagna, Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol, c. 1442/1445. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

DISCUSSION: Transitions REQUIREMENTS Questions about the Renaissance in Italy Lorenzo Ghiberti on the Destruction of Art Giorgio Vasari on the Destruction of Art (page 5) Renaissance Art (Wikipedia) Italian Renaissance Painting (Wikipedia) Medieval Art (Wikipedia) Byzantine Art (Wikipedia)

September 6

Art and Antiquity Nicola Pisano, Fortitude / Hercules / Daniel, 1259-1261. Pulpit, Baptistery, Pisa

DISCUSSION: Ancient statues READING: Lorenzo Ghiberti, excerpt from his "Commentaries" Vasari, Andrea Mantegna on ancient statues. Lives, page 244 Vasari, Preface to the Third Part of the Lives, page 279 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) The Renaissance Rediscovery of Antiquity (Heilbrunn Timeline) SHORT REPORTS 1: Antiquity 1 Vasari: Cimabue, 7-14: Jessie 2 Vasari, Simone Martini, 37-42: Cassie 3 Vasari, Duccio di Buoninsegna, 43-44: Caitlin

September 13

Art and Nature Giotto, Flight into Egypt, 1304-1306. Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua

DISCUSSION: Learning from Mother Nature READING: Giotto and Nature 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 Natura naturans (Wikipedia) Natura naturata (Wikipedia) SHORT REPORTS 2: Nature (+ Antiquity) 1 Vasari: Jacopo della Quercia, 59-65: Jessie 2 Vasari, Luca della Robbia, 66-73: Cassie 3 Vasari, Paolo Uccello, 74-83: Caitlin

September 20

Proportion and Perspective Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice

DISCUSSION: Proportion & Perspective READING: Proportion Number and Measure Perspective ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Body Proportions (Wikipedia) Leonardo's Anatomical Studies (Web Gallery of Art) Aesthetic Canon (Wikipedia) Symmetrical Portraits (Huffington Post) Proportion (architecture) (Wikipedia) SHORT REPORTS 3: Proportion (+ Antiquity + Nature) 1 Vasari: Lorenzo Ghiberti, 84-100: Jessie 2 Vasari, Masaccio, 101-109: Cassie 3 Vasari, Donatello, 147-162: Caitlin

September 27

Art and Artists Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait at an Easel, 1556. Lancut Museum, Poland

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 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 SHORT REPORTS 4: Talent (+ Antiquity + Nature + Proportion) 1 Vasari: Piero della Francesca, 163-168: Jessie 2 Vasari: Domenico Ghirlandaio, 210-223: Cassie 3 Vasari: Sandro Botticelli, 224-231: Caitlin

October 4

The Business of Painting Domenico Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Magi (detail), 1488-89. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence

DISCUSSION: The Conditions of Trade READING: Baxandall, Part 1 "The Conditions of Trade" pages 1-27 ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Giovanni Rucellai (Wikipedia) Domenico Ghirlandaio Andrea Mantegna Piero della Francesca Sandro Botticelli Filippino Lippi Pietro Perugino SHORT REPORTS 5: Business (+ Antiquity + Nature + Proportion + Talent) 1 Vasari: Andrea del Verrocchio, 232-241: Jessie 2 Vasari, Andrea Mantegna, 242-249: Cassie 3 Vasari, Pietro Perugino, 256-267: Caitlin

October 11 October 18 October 25

The Period Eye Domenico Veneziano, Annunciation (detail), c. 1445. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

DISCUSSION: The Period Eye READING: Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108 Period Eye (Wikipedia) FULL REPORTS 1 1 Baxandall, Nos. 1–4 (pages 29-45): Jessie 2 Baxandall, Nos. 5–6 (pages 45-71): Caitlin 3 Baxandall, Nos. 7–9 (pages 71-93): Cassie ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Gentile da Fabriano Pietro Perugino Fra Filippo Lippi Alesso Baldovinetti Fra Angelico Sandro Botticelli Andrea Mantegna Pinturicchio and Scene from the Odyssey Masaccio Vittore Carpaccio

November 1 November 8 November 15

Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art Leon Battista Alberti, La Pittura (title page), Published by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari in Venice in 1547

DISCUSSION: Surfaces, Visual Rays, Painting READING: Alberti, On Painting Vasari: Leon Battista Alberti, 178-184 Leon Battista Alberti (On Painting: English text) FULL REPORTS 2 1 Alberti, Book I: Jessie 2 Alberti, Book II: Cassie 3 Alberti, Book III: Caitlin ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Leon Battista Alberti Filippo Brunelleschi Brunelleschi's perspective experiment Alberti's Perspective One-point linear perspective Zeuxis, and in Pliny Apelles Calumny of Apelles (Botticelli) Lucian, Slander John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1957): Cochran Library NC750 .W48 1957

THANKSGIVING

November 29 December 6

From the High Renaissance to Mannerism Agnolo Bronzino, Noli me tangere, 1561. Louvre Museum, Paris

DISCUSSION: Mannerist Art READING: Vasari, Preface to the Third Part of the Lives, 277-283 Vasari, Preface to the Third Part of the Lives Michelangelo on the subject of Italian and Flemish Painting Mannerism Council of Trent Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci, 284-298 Vasari, Raphael, 305-338 Vasari, Rosso Fiorentino, 345-358 Vasari, Pontormo, 394-413 Vasari, Michelangelo, 414-488 ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo Pontormo Parmigianino Agnolo Bronzino Giorgio Vasari

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