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Caltech - Art 11. Selected Topics in Art History.

Instructor: Staff.
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Caltech - Art 46. The Age of the Great Cathedrals.

A study of the arts of Western Europe from the disintegration of the Roman Empire circa A.D. 476, to the 14th century. The diverse historical forces at work during this long period produced a correspondingly varied art. Emphasis will be on the later Middle Ages, circa 1200–1350, a period marked by a synthesizing of inherited traditions into a com-prehensive whole. Major monuments of architecture, such as the cathedrals of Notre Dame, Chartres, Reims, Cologne, Strasbourg, and Westminster, as well as sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, panel painting, and stained glass will be examined within the aesthetic and social framework of countries as culturally diverse as France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Britain. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 49. From Van Eyck to Rembrandt: Northern European Art, 1400–1650.

A survey of artistic developments in Northern Europe and Spain from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance and baroque periods. The course will focus upon the complexity of northern art, from its origins in the still forceful medieval culture of 15th-century Flanders, to its confrontation with Italian Renaissance humanism in the 16th century. The effects of this cultural synthesis and the eventual development of distinct national schools of painting in the 17th century are examined through the works of the period’s dominant artists, including Van Eyck, Dürer, Holbein, Velázquez, Rubens, Hals, and Rembrandt. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 50. Baroque Art.

A survey of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the late 16th century to the late 18th century. A confident and optimistic age, the baroque fostered the rise of national schools that produced artistic giants like Bernini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Claude, Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi. The masterpieces of these and other artists reflect the wide variety of baroque art and will be studied within the context of certain commonly held ideals and of the differing economic, political, and religious systems that characterized the period. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 51. European Art of the 18th Century: From the Rococo to the Rise of Romanticism.

The course will encompass 18th-century European painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. During this period a variety of styles and subjects proliferated in the arts, as seen in the richly diverse works of artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Blake, David, Piranesi, and Goya, which reflect a new multiplicity in ways of apprehending the world. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 52. British Art.

A survey course on British painting, sculpture, and architecture in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. By examining the works of well-known British artists such as Hogarth, Blake, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, and Turner, the class will focus on the multiplicity of styles and themes that developed in the visual arts in Britain from 1740 to 1840 and are part of the wider artistic phenomenon known as romanticism. This introduction to the British visual arts will be enriched by several class meetings in the Huntington Art Gallery. Instructor: Bennett.
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Caltech - Art 66. Ancient Art: From the Pyramids to the Colosseum.

A survey of the art of the earliest civilization of the ancient near east and Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to A.D. 300. The major monuments—architectural, sculptural, and pictorial—of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece, and Rome will be examined as solutions to problems of form and function presented by communal political, economic, and religious life. Emphasis will be placed on the creation of Greco-Roman art, the foundation of the Western artistic tradition. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 67. Italian Renaissance Art.

A basic study of the greatest achievements of Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture in the 15th and 16th centuries. Masterpieces by a succession of artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Alberti, the Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, and others will be examined for their formal beauty and power, and studied as manifestations of individual genius in the context of their time and place: Italy, fragmented politically, yet at the peak of its cultural dominance. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 68. Modern Art.

An in-depth survey of international painting and sculpture of the first half of the 20th century. Crucial movements, among them fauvism, German expressionism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, and American abstraction and realism between the two world wars, will be studied, and masterworks by a number of major artists of this period (e.g., Picasso, Matisse, Nolde, Duchamp, Magritte, Hopper) will be closely examined. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 70. Traditions of Japanese Art.

An introduction to the great traditions of Japanese art from prehistory through the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912). Students will examine major achievements of sculpture, painting, temple architecture, and ceramics as representations of each artistic tradition, whether native or adapted from foreign sources. Fundamental problems of style and form will be discussed, but aesthetic analysis will always take place within the conditions created by the culture. Instructor: Wolfgram.
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Caltech - Art 71. Arts of Buddhism.

An examination of the impact of Buddhism on the arts and cultures of India, Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan from its earliest imagery in the 4th century B.C.E. India through various doctrinal transformations to the Zen revival of 18th-century Japan. Select monuments of Buddhist art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, and ritual objects, will serve as focal points for discussions on their aesthetic principles and for explorations into the religious, social, and cultural contexts that underlie their creation. Not offered 2008–09.
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Caltech - Art 169. The Arts of Dynastic China.

A survey of the development of Chinese art in which the major achievements in architecture, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and ceramics will be studied in their cultural contexts from prehistory through the Manchu domination of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Emphasis will be placed on the aesthetic appreciation of Chinese art as molded by the philosophies, religions, and history of China. Instructor: Wolfgram. Not offered 2008–09.
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Stanford - Art of Pilgrimage and Crusade (ARTHIST 306A)

Focus is on the artistic production of Mediterranean 12th-13th centuries exploring the phenomena of pilgrimage and Crusade. The rise of the Normans; the establishment of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella as part of the Reconquista of Spain; the Crusader capture of Jerusalem in 1099 and the subsequent formation of Crusader states in the eastern Mediterranean; the rise of the Ayyubids and the emergence of the Italian city-state trade. The interconnection between the rise of narrative and conquest; the emergence of monumental sculpture; and the clash between tactile and optical visuality.
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Stanford - Introduction to the Visual Arts

Multicultural rather than historical approach. WIM
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Stanford - Asian Art and Culture (JAPANGEN 60)

The religious and philosophical ideas and social attitudes of India, China, and Japan and how they are expressed in architecture, painting, woodblock prints, sculpture, and in such forms as garden design and urban planning.
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Stanford - Introduction to the History of Architecture

From antiquity to the 20th century, mostly Western with some non-Western topics. Buildings and general principles relevant to the study of architecture.
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Stanford - Student Guides at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts

Open to all Stanford students. Introduction to museum administration; art registration, preparation, and installation; rights and reproductions of images; exhibition planning; and art storage, conservation, and security. Skill building in public speaking, inquiry methods, group dynamics, theme development, and art-related vocabulary. Students research, prepare, and present discussions on art works of their choice.
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Stanford - Archaic Greek Art (ARTHIST 301, CLASSART 101, CLASSART 201)

The development of Greek art and culture from protogeometric beginnings to the Persian Wars, 1000-480 B.C.E. The genesis of a native Greek style; the orientalizing phase during which contact with the Near East and Egypt transformed Greek art; and the synthesis of East and West in the 6th century B.C.E.
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Stanford - Classical and 4th-Century Greek Art (ARTHIST 302, CLASSART 102)

The formation of the classical ideal in 5th-century Athenian art, and its transformation and diffusion in the 5th and 4th centuries against changing Greek history, politics, and religion.
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Stanford - Introduction to Medieval Art (ARTHIST 305)

Chronological survey of Byzantine, Islamic, and Western Medieval art and architecture from the early Christian period to the Gothic age. Broad art-historical developments and more detailed examinations of individual monuments and works of art. Topics include devotional art, court and monastic culture, relics and the cult of saints, pilgrimage and crusades, and the rise of cities and cathedrals.
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Stanford - Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306)

Art-historical developments, and monuments and works of art. Topics include: the transition from naturalism to abstraction; imperial art and court culture; pilgrimage and cult of saints; and secular art and luxury objects.
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Stanford - Art of Pilgrimage and Crusade (ARTHIST 306A)

Focus is on the artistic production of Mediterranean 12th-13th centuries exploring the phenomena of pilgrimage and Crusade. The rise of the Normans; the establishment of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella as part of the Reconquista of Spain; the Crusader capture of Jerusalem in 1099 and the subsequent formation of Crusader states in the eastern Mediterranean; the rise of the Ayyubids and the emergence of the Italian city-state trade. The interconnection between the rise of narrative and conquest; the emergence of monumental sculpture; and the clash between tactile and optical visuality.
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Dartmouth - Introduction to the History of Art II

2. Introduction to the History of Art II<
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Dartmouth - First-Year Seminars in Art History

7. First-Year Seminars in Art History<
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Dartmouth - Foreign Study II

11. Foreign Study II<
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