This schedule is subject to change. Any changes will be announced in class and posted on the course blog.
1. January 5: Introduction – What is Art History?
Case: Manet’s Olympia, 1865
• no seminars this week – seminars begin in week 2.
2. January 12: Art and Symbolism – Prehistoric and Egyptian Art
Cases: Caves at Lascaux, Great Pyramids
REQUIRED READINGS: read Barnet, p. 1-9, 113-127.
3. January 19: Representation of the Human Form – Ancient Greece
Cases: Archaic and Classical sculpture
• short writing assignment #1 (formal analysis) – due in seminar
• quiz #1 opens
REQUIRED READINGS:
o Carol C. Mattusch, “Naming the ‘Classical’ Style,” Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 33, (2004): 277-290. This reading is available through JSTOR on the library website. You will need your portal information to log in. Connect and then do an advanced search for the author’s name and the title of the article. You can then download a .pdf.
o Barnet, “Peer Review,” p. 184-185.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
o Barnet, “Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft,” p. 180-186.
4. January 26: Pilgrimage – Middle Ages
Cases: Romanesque and Gothic Cathedral Architecture
• quiz #1 closes
REQUIRED READINGS: be sure to look at the images
o Barbara Abou-El-Haj, “The Audiences for the Medieval Cult of Saints,” Gesta, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1991): 3-15. Available on JSTOR.
o Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. “The Cult of the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/virg/hd_virg.htm (October 2001)
o Chapuis, Julien. “Gothic Art”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mgot/hd_mgot.htm (October 2002)
o Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. “Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Christianity”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/relc/hd_relc.htm (October 2001)
SUGGESTED READINGS: be sure to look at the images
o “Gothic: Jamb Figures, Chartres,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/Gothic.html
o Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. “The Crusades (1095–1291)”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm (October 2001)
o “400-1300 Medieval Era,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/medieval.html
5. February 2: Portraits and Identity – Renaissance
Cases: Durer and Holbein
• short writing assignment #2 (formal analysis re-written) – due in seminar
REQUIRED READINGS:
o Barnet, Chapter 10, “Some Critical Approaches,” 220-245.
o ”Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/08/euwl/ht08euwl.htm (October 2002)
o “Florence in the Early Renaissance,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/Florence.html
o “Flanders,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/Flanders.html#
o “A Comparison Between the Northern and Italian Renaissance,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/1400-1500-Renaissance-in-Italy-and-the-North.html
o “High Renaissance,”SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/High-Renaissance.html
o “1500-1600: The End of the Renaissance and the Reformation,” SmartHistory, http://smarthistory.org/1500-1600-End-of-the-Renaissance-and-the-Reformation.html
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED READINGS: Listen to ALL of “Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait,” http://smarthistory.org/Van-Eyck.html
6. February 9 : Art, Collectors and Collecting – Middle Ages to the Present
Case: Cabinet of Curiosities
• guest lecture: Catherine Heard
• midterm participation grades distributed
REQUIRED READINGS:
o Barnet, “Finding the Material,” p. 271-300.
o other readings TBA (watch the blog)
February 16: NO CLASSES OR SEMINARS – reading week
7. February 23: Renaissance Art
Case: The Arnolfini Portrait
• Midterm test, in lecture
REQUIRED READINGS: none this week — study for midterm
8. March 2: The Development of Painting – Baroque
Cases: Vermeer and Caravaggio
• short writing assignment #3– due in seminar
REQUIRED READINGS:
• Michael Fried, “Thoughts on Caravaggio,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Autumn, 1997): 13-56. Available through JSTOR
o Sorabella, Jean. “Baroque Rome”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/baro/hd_baro.htm (October 2003)
o Department of European Paintings. “Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610) and his Followers”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm (October 2003)
SUGGESTED READINGS:
o ”Rome and Southern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/eusts/ht09eusts.htm (October 2003)
o ”Low Countries, 1600–1800 A.D.”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/euwl/ht09euwl.htm (October 2003)
9. March 9: Art, Power and the Monarchy
Cases: Versailles and Velásquez
• quiz #2 opens
REQUIRED READINGS:
o Barnet, Chapter 13, “Manuscript Form,” p. 307-344.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
o “1700-1800 Age of Enlightenment,” http://smarthistory.org/1700-1800-Age-of-Enlightenment.html
o “France 1600-1700,” http://smarthistory.org/baroque-france.html
o “A Day with the Sun King,” Official Site of Versailles.
10. March 16: Art and Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
Cases: Neoclassicism and Impressionism
• quiz #2 closes
• Annotated bibliography due in lecture
REQUIRED READINGS:
o “France, 1800–1900 A.D.”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/10/euwf/ht10euwf.htm (October 2004)
o Samu, Margaret. “Impressionism: Art and Modernity”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm (October 2004)
o Gontar, Cybele. “Neoclassicism”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/neoc_1/hd_neoc_1.htm (October 2003)
SUGGESTED READINGS:
o “Neo-Classicism and David’s Oath of the Horatii,” http://smarthistory.org/neo-classicism.html
o “David’s Death of Marat,” http://smarthistory.org/david-death-of-marat.html
11. March 23: Modernity and Modernism
Cases: Picasso and Matisse
REQUIRED READINGS:
o Anna C. Chave, “New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Dec., 1994): 597-611. Get it through JSTOR in the library.
o Dabrowski, Magdalena. “Henri Matisse (1869–1954)”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mati/hd_mati.htm (October 2004)
o Voorhies, James. “Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)”. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pica/hd_pica.htm (October 2004)
12. March 30: Conclusion and Review
REQUIRED READINGS:
• Barnet, Chapter 5, “Writing a Comparison, and Chapter 14, “Writing Essay Exams,” p. 135-150 and 357-363.
