ARTH 232 Italian Art: 1300-1500 (Not offered 1999-2000; to be offered 2000-2001)
This course focuses on painting and sculpture of the Trecento and Quattrocento. Principal artists studied include: Giotto, Duccio, Masaccio, Donatello, Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, Uccello, the Lippi, Mantegna, the Bellini, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci. Special topics for discussion: the Proto-Renaissance; painting of the Black Death period; the International Gothic style; the rebirth of pictorial space; the development of the portrait; patronage and politics and secular and religious iconography. Requirements: two hour exams and a paper. Prerequisites: ArtH 101-102.