Class Id | 8019 |
Days | W |
Start time | 01:30 PM |
End time | 04:20 PM |
Building | MCCKH |
Room | 362 |
Course Id | 3553 |
Dept and Number | ART 544 |
Area | |
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 | |
Professor | Christopher P. Heuer |