Courses

Art History: The Quattrocento

Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45

Course # 22-3150 SR

Dept: Art and Design

Course Description: This course will introduce students to Early Renaissance Italian Art, focusing mainly on Florence and Venice. The course will explore the relationship between art history and history, and the relationship between art objects and important episodes in political , social and intellectual history.Students will learn a new way to see a work of art as a product and a production of its time. Beginning with the competition for Baptistery doors we will follow the evolution of the discovery of perspective, the rediscovery of classical elements in architecture, painting and sculpture. While the contribution of artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Ghiberti, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo will be discussed in detail, the course will also cover lesser known artists such as Lippi.Pollaiolo, Verrocchio, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Luca della Robbia, Beato Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Rossellino.