ART 355 Renaissance and Baroque Art
This course studies the visual arts beginning with the late-Gothic era and tracing its roots in Byzantine Art and icons, then follows practices in Italian painting at the time of Giotto in the turn of the thirteenth century, and then moves through Flemish art of the fifteenth century and the Italian Renaissance. It works through ancillary movements such as Mannerism, and concludes with an examination of the various statements of the European Baroque in the seventeenth century, covering Italy, France, Germany, England, the Low Countries and Spain. Areas covered include painting, sculpture, architecture, manuscript illumination, graphic arts and other media and the course will include mandatory visits to local collections both with and without the instructor.