Fall 2009
Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
Wednesday September 2
Art & Theory in the Early Renaissance
Wednesday September 9
Wednesday September 16
Wednesday September 23
Wednesday September 30
Wednesday October 7
Wednesday October 14
Wednesday October 21
Wednesday October 28
Wednesday November 4
Wednesday November 11
Wednesday November 18
Wednesday November 25
High Renaissance and Mannerism
Wednesday December 2
Wednesday December 9
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Introduction
DISCUSSION: History and the Concept of the Renaissance
Questions about the Renaissance in Italy
Lorenzo Ghiberti, excerpts from his "Commentaries"
Renaissance (Oxford Art Online)
Lorenzo Ghiberti (Oxford Art Online)
Giotto, Nature, and Painting
DISCUSSION: natura naturata and natura naturans
Boccaccio, Cennini, Ghiberti, Leonardo (excerpts)
Giotto and the Scrovegni Chapel
The Renaissance Concept of Nature (Jan Bialostocki, edited excerpt)
Giotto (Oxford Art Online)
Proportion
DISCUSSION: The Measure of Things
Proportion
Neoplatonism
Number and Measurement
Piero della Francesca (Oxford Art Online)
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Oxford Art Online)
Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford Art Online) and Leonardo's Anatomical Studies
Sandro Botticelli (Oxford Art Online)
The Business of Painting
READ Baxandall, Part 1 "The Conditions of Trade" pages 1-27
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Andrea Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Pietro Perugino
The Period Eye 1
READ Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108
FIRST SEMINAR REPORT - group 1
BAXANDALL
1 Nos. 1, 2, 3 (pages 29-40): Virginia Edahl
2 Nos. 4, 5 (pages 40-56): Laura Schein
3 No. 6, 7 (pages 56-81): Isabel Patterson
The Period Eye 2
READ Baxandall, Part 2 "The Period Eye" pages 29-108
FIRST SEMINAR REPORT - group 2
BAXANDALL
4 No. 8, 9 (pages 81-93): Sarah Strapp
5 No. 10, 11 (pages 94-108): Amy Dyer
Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art - 1
READ Alberti, On Painting, Book I, pages 34-35, 37-54
SECOND SEMINAR REPORT - group 1
ALBERTI
1 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 (pages 37-39): Virginia Edahl
2 Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 (pages 39-44) Isabel Patterson
Leon Battista Alberti and the New Theory of Art - 2
READ Alberti, On Painting, Book I, pages 34-35, 37-54
SECOND SEMINAR REPORT - group 2
ALBERTI
3 Nos. 9, 10, 11 (pages 44-46): Laura Schein
4 Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15 (pages 46-51): Amy Dyer
5 Nos. 16, 17, 18 (pages 51-54): Sarah Strapp
Alberti and Perspective
READ Alberti, On Painting, Book I, Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (pages 54-59)
Perspective
CLASS CANCELLED
Alberti on Painting and Composition - 1
READ Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86
THIRD SEMINAR REPORT - group 1
ALBERTI
1 Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 (pages 60-64): Sarah Strapp
2 Nos. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 (pages 64-71): Amy Dyer
3 Nos. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (pages 71-75) Isabel Patterson
Seminar Paper Topic Selection
Alberti on Painting and Composition - 2
READ Alberti, On Painting, Book II, pages 60-86
THIRD SEMINAR REPORT - group 2
ALBERTI
4 Nos. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 (pages 75-80): Laura Schein
5 Nos. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 (pages 80-86) Virginia Edahl
THANKSGIVING BREAK
High Renaissance and Mannerism
Giorgio Vasari (preface to the Third Part of the Lives)
Michelangelo on the subject of Italian and Flemish Painting
Seminar Paper Due
Mannerism and the Rise of the Artist
Mannerism
Rise of the Artist
The Artist's Nature
Born under Saturn