Introduction to the Arts of the Italian Renaissance

This course is currently at capacity. Students who currently are on the waitlist will be given priority if places become available.

*Taught Online*  This course will familiarize students with developments in the art production in Italy from the 15th through the early 17th centuries. The course will survey a broad range of objects and settings, and familiarize students with relevant media and techniques, as well as important intellectual, social, and political developments that informed the production and reception of art in the period. Students will hone their skills in visual analysis and their ability to engage art and express positions and observations about art orally and in writing. The major assignments for the class will include a presentation and a final project. Students will prepare daily discursive or creative responses to the readings and study the responses of their peers to engage in a collaborative, object-based critical inquiry. Whenever possible, we shall prioritize objects in local collections to which we are more likely to gain access during or after the conclusion of the course. Background readings will be complemented by selected original texts in translation and exemplary art historical scholarship on the period.