SNRSCH1309 - ARTH 2325 - Art in the Age of Exploration 1400-1600
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Course Description
This course is an overview of the arts created North of the Alps, c. 1400-1600, with attention to the period's early consciousness of globalism. This is a period of dramatic change, with the introduction of the printing press, religious and political turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, the European "discovery" of the Americas, incursions from the Ottoman Turks, and expanding travel across Europe and around the coast of Africa to India. We will examine fundamental artistic developments on the cusp of the modern era, including technical innovations in oil paint and printmaking, developments in mapmaking, the decline of the altarpiece, and the rise of new secular subjects in art, including images of witches, peasants, independent landscapes and portraiture. We will explore the ways in which works of art - by artists such as Van Eyck, Durer, Holbein, Bosch, and Bruegel - both reflected and contributed to the rapidly changing worldview. We will examine a wide range of media and materials, including carved altarpieces, panel paintings, book illuminations, prints, and so-called "feather paintings" from the Americas. We will study the territory of the Burgundian court and the Holy Roman Empire, looking at the cosmopolitan centers of Bruges, Nuremberg, Wittenberg, and Antwerp, but also at the movement of artists, patrons, works of art, and ideas as they are received from Italy, the Ottoman Empire, parts of Africa, and the Americas.Notes
Note: Attendance at field trips is not mandatory for Senior Scholars, but you may choose to join the class at the designated site if you wish.Loading...
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