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COURSES FALL 2008

Histart 62

INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART (4 units) Mondays & Wednesdays, 4-5:30 106 Moffit, CCN: 05475 Lisa Regan

Using selected examples of painting, sculpture and architecture, from Florence, Rome, Milan and the Veneto, this course will serve as an introduction to the art of the Italian Renaissance.  Beginning with the work of Giotto, the class will cover works by the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, including Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. It will be organized according to genre and will focus on important examples of city squares, churches, chapels, palaces, and libraries as well as their painted and sculptural decoration (e.g. altarpieces, narrative cycles, devotional painting, portraits etc.)

 

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