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2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 3431 - Art of the Italian Quattrocento



Credits: 3 (3 + 0)

Prerequisite(s): ARTH 1700 with “C-” or better; or permission of department

Description: This course is a study of Renaissance art and culture during the Quattrocento, the 15th century in Italy. The art of this period is considered within a larger social history tied to the changing and overlapping values of the church, the aristocracy, and mercantile elites. Stylistic development, patronage, and iconography are explored in addition to considerations of materials, techniques, and early aesthetic theories of the Renaissance. The course focuses on artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo, and the early career of Michelangelo. Topics include the invention of “art” and “artist,” urban politics, wealth and social order, gender, family, and sexual values, penitential piety, the rise of portraiture, the influence of Humanism, and the rise of mythology and landscape.



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