ART 353 Medieval Art and Architecture
This survey course presents a study of the art and architecture from the fourth through the fourteenth centuries beginning in the era of Constantine and Rome’s legalization of Christianity and concluding with the Black Death and Proto-Renaissance. While concentrating on the history and religious context of western Europe in the Early Christian, Romanesque and Gothic periods, the course will also illuminate connections with Jewish, Byzantine and Islamic cultures. The material studied includes sacred and secular architecture, manuscript illumination, painting, mosaics, sculpture, stained glass, ceramics and the decorative arts in both the private and the public realms.