ARTH 233 Italian Art: 1500-1600 (Not offered 1999-2000)
This course focuses on painting of the High and Late Renaissance in Florence, Rome, Venice, and their environs. Principal artists studied: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Parmigianino, Rosso, Pontormo, Bronzino, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. Special topics for discussion will include style and technique of the Renaissance drawing; landscape and Venice; the portrait; civic and private patronage; Mannerism; and religious and secular iconography. Class format: lecture. Requirements: a midterm, a final exam, and at least two or three short papers. Prerequisites: ArtH 101-102. Open to sophomores.