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Johns Hopkins University - Urban Images, Urban Realities from Rome to the Renaissance

In the western world over the course of the past two millennia, cities and urban living have been a central component of what it has meant, in the eyes of contemporaries, to be ‘civilized.’ Hence, representations of cities often tend to reflect the political, cultural and ideological agendas of those who created or commissioned them, from the ‘Madaba Map Mosaic’ in sixth-century Jordan to the Lorenzetti frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico in fourteenth-century Siena. In this course, we will attempt to compare these idealized images with the reality of urban living conditions in western Europe, insofar as these can be traced through textual and archaeological evidence, in order to assess the relationship between the ‘real’ and the ‘ideal,’ and to ask how and why the former often differed so greatly from the latter.
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Johns Hopkins University - Materials in Postwar Art

Through case studies of specific artists and works of art, this course examines the use of new materials in the postwar period: bricks, felt, fiberglass, fluorescent light, house paint, kapok, latex, lead, rocks, rubber, sponges, vinyl, wax, etc.
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Johns Hopkins University - Special Topics in the Art of Lombardy and the Veneto, 1500-1600

An approach to the problem of regionalism in Italian art, focusing on art production in the Lombard cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona 1520-90.
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Johns Hopkins University - Medieval Art and Architecture Of Venice

This seminar will study the art and architecture of Venice and its colonies from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, including architecture, sculpture, wall and floor mosaics, painting and metalwork.
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Johns Hopkins University - Art History's Interdisciplinary Turn

Examines the ways Art History has opened itself to paradigms in other disciplines since the 1970s. What has been gained and lost? What does it mean to be "interdisciplinary" today?
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Johns Hopkins University - Special Research/Problems

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course
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