Class Id: 8019
Days: W
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: MCCKH
Room: 362
Course Id: 3553
Departments and Numbers: ART 544
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Title: Seminar in Northern Renaissance: The Altarpiece
Description: Consideration of this foundational object of Western painting, in all its theorizations, histories, materialities, and afterlives. Span will be roughly 1400-1700, but the course will delve into Byzantine traditions and move forward to the nineteenth century. We will focus upon specific objects from Northern and Southern Europe and the early modern Americas. Topics include iconoclasm, allegory, collaboration, ritual, secularization, movement, publics, theft, patronage, and more.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Christopher P. Heuer
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