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ARTH 3433 - Northern Renaissance Art



Credits: 3

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

Description: This course considers Renaissance visual culture of Northern Europe c. 1400-1600 as defined by the church, the nobility, and the merchant class. Topics include late medieval court culture, shifts in traditional religious art and the dramatic cultural transformation brought by Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation, and the explosion of new secular imagery, including genres such as portraiture and scenes of everyday life. This includes landscape, primitivism and the wild man, courtly pastoral and love gardens, and the working farmscape, which appealed to merchants. Students look closely at everyday life, especially family, marriage, and a wide range of gender issues including witchcraft, “dominating” women, courtesans, courtly love, and “feminine” beauty. Consideration is also given to images tied to socio-economic problems and the emerging capitalist economy such as commerce, charity, and prostitution. Major artists include the Limbourg Brothers, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Bosch, Grunewald, Durer, Holbein, and Bruegel.



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