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Rice - HART 315 - ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

HART 315 - ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE Credits: 3 A chronological survey of Roman sculpture, painting, and architecture from its Etruscan beginnings to the late Empire. Art and architecture of Rome and the provinces considered within their larger social, political, and urban contexts. Particular attention given to patronage, the relation between Roman and Greek art, and Rome's position as an artistic center. Cross-list: CLAS 315. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 317 - CONSTANTINOPLE / ISTANBUL

HART 317 - CONSTANTINOPLE / ISTANBUL Credits: 3 An exploration of the architectural and urban culture of the Ottoman imperial capital, Istanbul / Constantinople, from its conquest in 1453 until the empire's demise in the 1920s. Topics include: artistic and imperial legacies; patronage; political and religious symbolism; artistic canon and identity. Not open to students who have taken HART 220 or HART 520. Cross-list: ARCH 361, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 517. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 318 - SPEICAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

HART 318 - SPEICAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART Credits: 3 This course will introduce you to the major monuments of Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. We will focus not only on the history and functions of these monuments in antiquity but also on how their meaning and representation has changed and evolved in the post-classical world. May 6-24, 2008. Cross-list: CLAS 321. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 321 - VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I

HART 321 - VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I Credits: 3 An introduction to the arts of architecture of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explores the development of a visual tradition through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and intertextualities. Examines key religious and secular institutions and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts. Cross-list: ARCH 331. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 322 - VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD II

HART 322 - VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD II Credits: 3 An introduction to the architecture, ceramics, textiles, and arts of the book of the Islamic world, from Egypt to India and Central Asia, beginning in the wake of the Mongol conquests and ending with the demise of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on court patronage and production, the course examines key buildings and objects through their aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Methodological concerns of the field are addressed through an exploration of such themes as iconoclasm, word and image, and cross-cultural influences. Cross-list: ARCH 332. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 323 - TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

HART 323 - TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD Credits: 3 This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will consider questions of patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. Cross-list: ARCH 328. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 324 - THE PEN AND THE BRUSH: THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

HART 324 - THE PEN AND THE BRUSH: THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Credits: 3 This course introduces the arts of the book in the Islamic world, from the earliest manifestations to printing. We will analyze Korans, scientific and pseudo-scientific manuscripts, illustrated literary texts, anthologies of poetry, albums, and consider techniques, materials, book formats, and schools of production. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 325 - WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART ?

HART 325 - WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART ? Credits: 3 This seminar is a critical examination of key themes and issues in Islamic art. Based on readings that focus on specific examples of artistic and architectural production of major landmarks from the 7th to the 18th centuries our discussions will evolve around such questions as: What is Islamic about Islamic art? How and where did art, religion, and politics intersect? To what extent were art and architecture informed by religious principles, practices, and rituals? Can we speak of a distinctive visual language across the Muslim world? We will also explore the role of myth in the construction of cultural heritage, the development of writing the art form of calligraphy, and questions of patronage and imperial ideology. We will revisit long-held assumptions about the nature of Islamic art as iconoclastic and aniconistic, and about the nature and aspect of artistic exchange between the Muslim world and the Latin Christian West, Byzantium, and China. Cross-list: ARCH 325. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 327 - ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

HART 327 - ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD Credits: 3 This course looks at the art and architecture of the Ottoman empire, the longest surviving Muslim empire, from its inception in 1453 until its demise in the 1920s. Based on in-depth studies of religious and secular monuments, objects, and paintings, it examines the roots of Ottoman visual culture, the formation of a canonic style, relations with eastern and western artistic traditions, issues of power and identity in art, systems of patronage, concepts of westernization and Ottoman modernism. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 328 - CITIES IN MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN

HART 328 - CITIES IN MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN Credits: 3 This seminar examines the architectural and urban culture of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern and modern periods, and in different contexts including the imperial capital Istanbul and the port cities of Izmir and Salonica. We will begin by investigating questions of cultural legacy and appropriation; building patronage and urban development; court and urban life; in an attempt to address modernity outside European context. Cross-list: ARCH 373. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 329 - STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

HART 329 - STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL Credits: 3 This exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Cairo. Cross-list: ARCH 329, HIST 329. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 330 - EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

HART 330 - EARLY MEDIEVAL ART Credits: 3 Early Medieval Art from the 5th Century to the Romanesque period. This course begins with a study of the art and architecture of the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombards, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Merovingians, and the transformation of the Roman World through new Germanic, Barbarian, and Christian forces. The second part of the course considers the cultural Renaissance of the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods under rulers such as Charlemagne and Otto III. The last third of the course focuses on themes of pilgrimage, relics, crusades and the emergence of new monumental tradition in art and architecture during the Romanesque Period. Cross-list: MDST 330, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 530. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 331 - GOTHIC ART

HART 331 - GOTHIC ART Credits: 3 Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. Cross-list: MDST 331, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 531. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 332 - ART OF THE COURTS

HART 332 - ART OF THE COURTS Credits: 3 Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within three distinct settings--the court, the city, and the church. Includes private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture, and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, the city hall and hospital, and the chapel and parish church. Cross-list: MDST 332, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 532. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 335 - ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN

HART 335 - ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN Credits: 3 This seminar will examine the artistic encounters that occurred around the Mediterranean basin through specific objects and buildings, each week focusing on one or a coherent group of objects. We will explore how the circulation of aesthetic trends, forms, and techniques that occurred via trade, conquest, warfare, power relations, artists' patronage and gift exchange resulted in mutual processes of artistic transmissions between different cultures and across Muslim-Christian boundaries. Cross-list: ARTS 335. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 336 - CINEMA AND THE CITY

HART 336 - CINEMA AND THE CITY Credits: 3 This class explores representations of the city in 20th century European and American cinema, considering such diverse films as Dziga Vertov's "Man with the Movie Camera," Jules Dassin's "The Naked City," Fritz Lang's "M," and Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run." Central concerns will include the city as cinematic protagonist, parallels between urban and cinematic space, and the intertwined histories of both film and urban design over the last century. Cross-list: FILM 336. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 337 - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CINEMA

HART 337 - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CINEMA Credits: 3 This class surveys the history of Russian/Soviet cinema from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. We will examine films as part of the broader political and social history of this period, paying particular attention to such issues as aesthetics and politics, entertainment and propaganda, history and memory, and gender and sexuality. Cross-list: FILM 337. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 338 - LANDMARKS IN ISRAELI ART

HART 338 - LANDMARKS IN ISRAELI ART Credits: 3 This course examines the main artistic movements of israel (1948-88.) It explores how traditional Jewish symbols are transformed by political events and Zionist dogmas. Zionist thinking expanded familiar biblical legends and myths creating modern ones for the emerging Israeli culture. Art was also influenced by Greco-Roman mythology and Christian symbolism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 538. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 339 - STILL LIFE PAINTING, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY

HART 339 - STILL LIFE PAINTING, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY Credits: 3 Still life paintings show objects, arranged on a table or shelf, in such a way as to reflect human experience. This course examines still life painting from the Dutch Golden Age through nineteenth-century Europe and America to innovative works produced by such twentieth-century movements as Dada, surrealism, and pop art. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 539. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 340 - NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

HART 340 - NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART Credits: 3 Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. Cross-list: MDST 340. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 341 - EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY

HART 341 - EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY Credits: 3 Study of Italian art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli, with emphasis on painting and sculpture in the 15th century. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 342 - THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

HART 342 - THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY Credits: 3 Study of the High Renaissance, with emphasis on its leading masters (e.g., Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Titian). Includes a study of mannerism, the stylish art produced after the first quarter of the 16th century. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 343 - MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA

HART 343 - MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA Credits: 3 Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, and Velazquez. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 344 - BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY, SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD

HART 344 - BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY, SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD Credits: 3 This course surveys the visual culture of Southern Europe and the Americas during the seventeenth century. We will study the work of major artists - including Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini, Murillo, and Velazquez - as well as the introduction and adaptation of European artistic models in Central and South America. Cross-list: ARCH 379, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 544. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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Rice - HART 345 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

HART 345 - ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I Credits: 3 This course provides a chronological survey of European architecture, urbanism, and landscape design from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Through focused attention to selected buildings, plans, designs, and theories, the course considers key works and their relationships to differing aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. Cross-list: ARCH 345. College: School of Humanities Department: History of Art
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