SCHEDULE

REQUIREMENTS

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Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe - Spring 2005

CONTENTS AND SCHEDULE

The Course

    An introduction to European art in the 17th century. Examples of painting, sculpture, and some architecture produced in Europe between approximately 1590 and 1700 will be examined.

Meeting Place and Time

  • Pannell 015: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30-11:45

Required Texts

  • Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2005)


    Alice Neel, Portrait of Ann Sutherland Harris and Neil (1978)

  • The materials on this website
Student Responsibilities
  • Active class participation, which includes being prepared for each class, and taking part in discussion.
  • One Report (9-10 machine-printed pages, with footnotes and bibliography) presented in class with web-based images
  • One Midterm Take-Home Exam
  • One two-part Final Exam
    1. The in-class portion of the Final Exam (Tuesday, May 3) consists of two parts
      1. 16 images will be projected, each for 30 seconds. Name the ARTIST in each case
      2. 4 images will be projected, each for 12 minutes. In each case
        • identify the artist
        • give the name or title of the image
        • give a date or dates (to within 5 years)
        • write a essay about what you know about the image
      Both the identifications and the images will be selected from Harris
    2. The take-home essay portion of the Final Exam is due at my office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 6. Essay topics will be handed out in class on Thursday, April 28.

Grading

  • Class participation = 10%
  • Report = 30%
  • Midterm Exam = 30%
  • Final Exam = 30%

Office and Hours

  • Pannell 04: Thursdays 12:00-1:00. Others times by appointment
  • phone: 6194
  • email: witcombe@sbc.edu