SCHEDULE

REQUIREMENTS

RESOURCES

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe - Spring 2005

CONTENTS AND SCHEDULE

WEEK 1
Thursday January 20
INTRODUCTION
Requirements
The Baroque
FOCUS on style
READ: Harris, PAGES xi-xxi and 1-7
Mannerism to Baroque

1 ITALY

WEEK 2
Tuesday January 25
Annibale Carracci
FOCUS on Annibale Carracci's Farnese Gallery
READ: Harris: PAGES 7-34

Thursday January 27 Report topic selection
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
FOCUS on the Contarelli and Cerasi Chapels
READ: Harris: PAGES 34-49


WEEK 3
Tuesday February 1
Caravaggio's Italian Followers
FOCUS on Artemisia Gentileschi
READ: Harris: PAGES 50-56

Thursday February 3
The Carracci Succession in Rome and Bologna
FOCUS on Guido Reni
READ: Harris: PAGES 56-77


WEEK 4
Tuesday February 8
Italian Sculpture
FOCUS on Bernini's Apollo and Daphne
READ: Harris: PAGES 85-113

Thursday February 10
Gianlorenzo Bernini
REPORT 1: Janie Glen


WEEK 5
Tuesday February 15
Architecture and City Planning in Rome, 1585-1680
FOCUS on Francesco Borromini
READ: Harris: PAGES 4-6, 78-84

REPORT 2: Megan Meighan

Thursday February 17
NO CLASS
Your instructor is away serving as a respondent to papers in a session at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in Atlanta


WEEK 6
Tuesday February 22
Painting in Rome and Naples, 1623-1680
FOCUS on Pietro da Cortona
READ: Harris: PAGES 113-141

Thursday February 24
Painting in Rome and Naples, 1623-1680
REPORT 3: Anne Wise

2 FLANDERS

WEEK 7
Tuesday March 1
Painting in Flanders
FOCUS on Peter Paul Rubens
READ: Harris: PAGES 143-193

Thursday March 3
Painting in Flanders
REPORT 4: Sarah Hart
REPORT 5: Maureen McGuire

3 SPAIN

WEEK 8
Tuesday March 8 Mid-Term Take-Home Exam Handed Out in Class
Painting and Sculpture in Spain
FOCUS on Diego Velázquez
READ: Harris: PAGES 195-241

Thursday March 10
Painting and Sculpture in Spain

Tuesday March 15 - Thursday March 17
SPRING BREAK

4 FRANCE

WEEK 9
Tuesday March 22 Mid-Term Take-Home Exam Due in Class at 10:30 a.m.
Art in France
FOCUS on Georges de La Tour
READ: Harris: PAGES 243-273

Thursday March 24
Art in France
REPORT 6: Laura Ann Humphress


WEEK 10
Tuesday March 29
French Art in Rome and Paris
FOCUS on Nicolas Poussin
READ: Harris: PAGES 273-309

Thursday March 31
French Art in Rome and Paris
REPORT 7: Katie Feiss


WEEK 11
Tuesday April 5 and Thursday April 7
MOVIE: Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Your instructor is away presenting a paper at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference in Cambridge, England

5 THE DUTCH REPUBLIC

WEEK 12
Tuesday April 12
Dutch Caravaggesque Painters & Frans Hals
FOCUS on Frans Hals
READ: Harris: PAGES 311-327

Thursday April 14
Dutch Caravaggesque Painters & Frans Hals


WEEK 13
Tuesday April 19
Rembrandt
FOCUS on The "Night Watch"
READ: Harris: PAGES 333-356

Thursday April 21
Rembrandt
REPORT 8: Sloan Houston
REPORT 9: Dawn Martin


WEEK 14
Tuesday April 26
Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting
FOCUS on Vermeer
READ: Harris: PAGES 356-385

Thursday April 28
Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting
REPORT 10: Courtney Culbreth


WEEK 15
Tuesday May 3
FINAL EXAM (in-class portion)
IMAGE STUDY LIST