Meaning and Mystery in Renaissance Art

Thursday, October 7 FIRST PAPER DUE
Leonardo da Vinci's Life, Art, and Writings
Leonardo's Life
Leonardo's Paintings and Drawings
Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man"
Leonardo's Last Supper
Leonardo's Mona Lisa
Leonardo's Writings

Thursday, October 14
Early Renaissance Art
Sources
Interpretation
Meaning

Thursday, October 21
High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
Sources
Interpretation
Meaning

Thursday, October 28
NO CLASS
Your instructor is away presenting a paper, "Gregory XIII and the Academy of St. Luke in Rome," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Toronto

Codes, Patterns, and Secrets

Thursday, November 4
Numbers and Numerology
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
GUEST LECTURER: Professor Stephen R. Wassell (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences)
Pythagoras
Plato
Leonardo Fibonacci
Magic Numbers
Numerology

Thursday, November 11 SECOND PAPER DUE
Sacred Geometry and Proportions
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
GUEST LECTURER: Professor Stephen R. Wassell (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences)
Ratios and Proportions
Musical Proportions and Harmony
Sacred Geometry

Thursday, November 18
Secrets and Secrecy
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
GUEST LECTURER: Professor Cathy Gutierrez (Dept. of Religion)
Secrecy in the Ancient World and in the Bible
Renaissance Neoplatonism and Ancient Wisdom
Hidden Knowledge (codes, ciphers, mystical patterns, symbols, hieroglyphs)
Parables and Allegories
Secret Cults, Sects, and Societies

Thursday, November 25
NO CLASS: Thanksgiving Break

Thursday, December 2
The Backlash Against Women
Mary Magdalen the Prostitute
The Power of Women
From Heroine to Seductress
Witches and Witch Hunts
The Hammer of Witches

Thursday, December 9
The Public Response to the Da Vinci Code
CLASS CANCELLED (sorry!)
Your instructor is away attending a seminar at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Monday, December 13
THIRD PAPER DUE by Noon in the box outside my office door