ART 210: Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
Professor Patricia Fortini Brown
Lectures MW 12:00-12:50/ 1 precept TBA
Office Hours: TBA
Description: Lectures will examine the birth, rise and flowering of Italian Renaissance art in Tuscany, Rome and Venice from about 1250 to 1600 A.D., with emphasis on the 15th and 16th centuries. Artists and works of art will be presented, whenever possible and relevant, within their cultural, political, social, technological and/or economic circumstances. Among the major artists to be studied: Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.
Assignments: average 40 pages of readng weekly, plus study of photographs; total about 3-4 hours. In addition, students are encouraged to get to know the collections of Italian Renaissance painting and scupture in New Yortk and Philadelphia.
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