Art History 341
Spring 2004




REQUIREMENTS


SCHEDULE


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The Course

    

Using both primary and secondary sources, the seminar will examine Renaissance concepts of antiquity, "truth to Nature," proportion, beauty, style, and philosophical views on imitation, creativity, and the ideal with a view to understanding the art produced in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy and the shifts in style that occurred from the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance to Mannerism. Primary sources (in translation) include Cennino Cennini, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari.  




Meeting Place and Time

    

  • Pannell 015: Thursdays 1:30-4:00




Required Texts

    

  • Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)

  • Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, translated by Cecil Grayson with an introduction and notes by Martin Kemp (London: Penguin Books, 1991)

  • The material on this website




Student Responsibilities

    

  • Active class participation, which includes being prepared for each class, and taking part in discussion.

  • One paper (9-10 machine-printed pages, with footnotes and bibliography) dealing with issues raised in this course 

  • Three seminar reports (4 machine-printed pages, with footnotes and bibliography) on topics listed in the Schedule




Grading

    

  • Class participation = 10%

  • Each Seminar Report = 10%

  • Each Paper = 30%




Office and Hours

    

  • Pannell 04: Thursdays 12:00-1:00. Others times by appointment

  • phone: 6194

  • email: witcombe@sbc.edu