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The 100-level courses are introductory surveys intended primarily for freshmen, although they may be taken at the sophomore level or above. 100 Survey of Art: Ancient to Renaissance (ATD) (1st sem) First half of a survey of art history from prehistoric times to the 20th century. Chronological and systematic approach; either a basis for more detailed study of individual periods in upper-level art history courses, or a solid general foundation for a heightened appreciation of the heritage of art. More professionally oriented than ARTHIS 115. Background for upper-level art history courses; required of majors. May register for Honors. 110 Survey of Art: Baroque to Modern (AT) (2nd sem) Historical survey of art, architecture, and urban development from the Baroque to the present; the social context in which style has developed. Discussion of the same material from a critical and topical point of view. Background for upper-level art history courses; required of majors. May register for Honors. 115 Introduction to the Visual Arts (ATD) (both sem) The discipline of art history and the tools of visual analysis it employs. Focus on issues such as Classicism, "primitive" art, realism, and modernity, presented in roughly chronological order. Discussion of these issues in relation to contemporary visual culture. 370 Junior Year Writing Course (1st sem) Course projects which give practice in different types of art historical writing (catalogue entry, book or exhibition review, interpretative essay, technical report) combined with in-class exercises in the writing of analytical and explanatory prose. Topic focuses from semester to semester on a period, culture and/or individual artist. Required of all art history majors in their junior year. 390B Impressionism and Post-impressionism Introduction to modern art of the later 19th century through the major figures of these two movements. Analysis of their techniques, subjects, and the shape of their careers. ARTHIS 110 or 115 recommended as background. 392 Seminar: Museum Studies (2nd sem) Lecture, discussions, demonstrations, visits to area museums and conservation laboratories, organization of a small exhibition. Theoretical and practical approaches to the museum profession: history and typology of museums, financial and staff organization, exhibition preparation and installation design, cataloguing and accessioning works of art, connoisseurship, art conservation, education programs. Written reports and class presentations. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and ARTHIS 521 or 522 or equivalent. For junior and senior Art History majors. Limited enrollment. 500 Greek Art (1st sem) The visual arts against the cultural history of Greece. The origins, unfolding, and flowering of Greek painting, architecture, and sculpture from roughly 900 to 100 B.C. Possible museum field trip. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 100, 115 or consent of instructor. May register for Honors. 506 Early Medieval Art (1st sem) The development of Christian art in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the Romanesque period. Focus on the Early Christian, Byzantine, Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, and Ottonian periods and the related political, intellectual, and cultural developments. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 100 or consent of instructor. 507 Romanesque and Gothic Art (2nd sem) The development of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts from 1050 to 1400 in France, England, and Italy. The society in which these art forms developed; the relationship of the monuments to contemporary political, social, intellectual, and literary trends. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 100 or consent of instructor. 511 Early Italian Art (1250-1500) (1st sem) Chronological survey organized by city rather than artist to provide a stronger sense of the social context in which works of art were produced. How city-states develop distinctive artistic styles, and how different govenmental systems favored various forms of patronage. Cities include: Naples, Rome, Siena, Florence, Milan, Mantua, Ferrara, Padua, Urbino, and Venice. Central themes: the revival of interest in classical antiquity and the development of the mathematical system of one-point perspective. 512 Northern European Art, 1400-1600 (1st sem) Topical survey of the art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe: van Eyck and disguised symbolism, late Gothic spiritualism; Bosch and the fantastic; Durer and the Reformation; the rise of landscape and the art of Pieter Bruegel. Primary attention to painting; the expressive value of the works in cultural context. Prerequisite: some college-level art history, preferably introductory, e.g., ARTHIS 100, 110, or 115. May register for Honors. 513 High Renaissance and Mannerist Italian Art (1500-1600) Sixteenth-century visual arts produced in the major artistic centers of Italy, including Florence, Rome, and Venice. The lives and works of specific artists, such as Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, and Michel-angelo. Focus on the relationship between art and society. Themes include: the rise in social status of the artist and the notion of artistic genius; the influence of patronage and collecting; women as subjects, patrons, and practitioners of art; classicism and "anti-classicism" (Mannerism); art and religious reform; government and city planning; and the role of art in the creation of political identities. 516 Italian Baroque Art (1st sem alt yrs) Architecture, sculpture, and painting from 1600-1750, especially in Rome, and, in painting, in the Bolognese school. The spread of the Baroque style. Emphasis on Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Bernini, Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 110, 115, 511 or 513. 517 Northern European Art, 1600-1700 (2nd sem) Survey of 17th century painting outside Italy. Emphasis on Velazquez, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Meaning and function of the art in historical and cultural context. Prerequisite: some college-level art history, preferably introductory, e.g., ARTHIS 100, 110, 115. May register for Honors. 521 European Art 1780-1880 Surveys major artists and developments from David through Impressionism; emphasis on historical context and related cultural and intellectual developments. Prerequisites: ARTHIS 110, 115 or consent of instructor. May register for Honors. 522 Modern Art 1880 to Present (1st sem) Introduction to directions and major issues in 20th-century art. Focus on movements from Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, to post-World War II and contemporary directions from Abstract Expressionism to Post-Modernism. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 110 or 115 or consent of instructor. 524 American Art I (1st sem) Painting, architecture, and sculpture in the English North American colonies and the United States to 1860. Emphasis on painting. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 110 or 115. May register for Honors. 525 American Art II (2nd sem) Painting, architecture, and sculpture in the United States from 1860 to 1940. Emphasis on painting. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 110 or 115. May register for Honors. 527 History of the Decorative Arts Historical survey of the decorative arts from the middle ages into the present century; emphasis on the European and American period styles of the 18th century onward. Various media of the decorative arts, including furniture, glass, textiles. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 100, 110, or 115. 531 19th-Century Architecture (1st sem) Architecture as an art; proper architectural terms, architecture as a tool of society. The flow of architectural style from 1750 to 1910 in Europe and America; background to the frequent changes in style, from Romanticism and through the debatable tastes of the mid-century, to the rise of the skyscraper and early Frank Lloyd Wright. Valuable as humanistic study of architecture; basic for architects, regional planning, landscape and town planning, and preservation. 532 20th-Century Architecture (2nd sem) The stylistic trends of our era; Frank Lloyd Wright and other 20th century innovators to contemporary developments. Changing theories of modern architecture and their historical sources. Views of modern architects through reading and criticizing their ideas. Preparation for careers in architecture, environmental design, interior decoration, and art history. An art history survey course and ARTHIS 531 helpful. 536 History of Islamic Art and Architecture I (1st sem alt yrs) History of Islamic art from its origins in the Byzantine and Sasanian traditions of the Near East, to its development under the Arab Empire and under subsequent Turkish and Persian dynastic patrons through the 13th century. The Islamic world from Spain to India; emphasis on the central Islamic lands of the Near East. Media include architecture, painting, textiles, ivories, ceramics, glass and crystal, and others seldom encountered in the study of Western art. Background in either art history or Near Eastern history useful. Alternates with ARTHIS 537. 537 History of Islamic Art and Architecture II (1st sem alt yrs) Continuation of ARTHIS 536. The artistic expression of the various Islamic peoples from the 14th through 18th centuries through important art works and related historical material. Any one of three 100-level art history courses, or ARTHIS 536 or a course in Islamic history desirable. A trip to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at student option. Alternates with ARTHIS 536. 551 Roman Art (2nd sem) The origins and unfolding of Roman art from the Etruscans through the late Empire, roughly 600 B.C. to 300 A.D. Concentration on the flowering of Roman architecture and sculpture, especially portraiture, in the Late Republic and High Empire, 100 B.C.-200 A.D., and the development of a large-scale, influential, and lasting imperial iconography. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 100, 115 or consent of instructor. May register for Honors. 556 Medieval Painting The history of the illustrated book from early Christian period through the high Middle Ages. Problems in materials and technique; stylistic and iconographic questions. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 506 or 507. 562 Aspects of Baroque Art in Northern Europe Selected aspects of art and architecture in England, France, Flanders, Holland, Germany, and Austria from 1600 to 1750. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 517 or consent of instructor. 563 Vernacular Architecture (1st sem) Seminar. Concentrates on American Colonial architecture of New England and a variety of vernacular structures in later periods; e.g., barns, windmills, factories. For students of architectural preservation and renovation, as well as art history. 566 Criticism of Modern Art Practical exercises and studies in the evaluation of modern painting, including supporting theory and/or relationships to the other arts. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 522 or consent of instructor. 567 History of Photography Introduction to the history of the medium from 1839 to the present. Lectures focus on the social and cultural factors underlying each type or form of photography, relation of the medium to other arts, and visual analysis of the images themselves. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 110 or 115 or consent of instructor; ARTHIS 522 helpful. 568 Contemporary Art (2nd sem) Issues and developments in American art after 1940 from the present perspective. Cultural and art historical context of the postwar work of American artists from Abstract Expressionism through the most recent options raised in the works themselves, artists' writings, critics' interpretations, public reception, and support. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 522. Enrollment limited to about 20. May register for Honors. 581-5 Great Themes in Art History (both sem) Changing treatment of central themes, issues, and problems in art history. Topics change; offerings usually available in Modern and Islamic. List of current offerings available in Art History Office, 317B Bartlett. Prerequisite: upper-level survey course on theme to be examined, or consent of instructor. 582 Contemporary Women's Art and Criticism Seminar. Directions and definitions of women artists' work from the 1970s to the present in the social and critical context in which it developed. Feminist theory and art criticism central to each phase examined. Prerequisite: ARTHIS 522 or 568 or consent of instructor. 583 History of Prints (2nd sem) Seminar. History of printmaking as fine art; emphasis on major printmakers, Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Goya. Issues of collecting and prints as vehicle of popular and propagandistic communication. Required field trips. Prerequisite: previous courses in art history. Art
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