INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY   AH112

 
 
 
 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE    BLOCK 7

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE   BLOCK 8


Date  Assignments  Image File
M 3/27 Introduction/Visual Analysis

Honor and Fleming 12-31
 

Tu 3/28 Prehistoric/Ancient Near East

Honor and Fleming 34-59
Web assignment: The "Venus" from Willendorf

Theme: Art as a path to the past
 

RK112-2
W 3/29 Egypt 

Honor and Fleming 62-75; 92-105
Web assignment: Zoser's Step Pyramid

Theme: Art and immortality
 

RK112-3 
Th 3/30  Greece

Honor and Fleming 126-159
Rhodes, Acropolis, 1-111
Web assignment: The Olympics

Theme: The Ideal Form
 

RK112-4
F 3/31  Classical Greece

Rhodes, Acropolis, 112-186
Web assignment: Parthenon marbles

Class Report:  Should the Elgin Marbles Be Returned to Greece?

Theme: The Parthenon in Its Context 
 

RK112-5
M 4/3 Hellenistic Greece/Rome

Honor and Fleming 173-199
Web assignment: Villa of the Mysteries

Theme: Defining Naturalism

VISUAL ANALYSIS PAPER DUE
 

RK112-6
Tu 4/4  Rome

Honor and Fleming 199-217
Nodelman, "How to Read a Roman Portrait"
Web assignment: Art of Augustus
 

Theme: Art and Power
 

 RK112-7 
W 4/5  Late Roman, Early Christian Art 

Honor and Fleming 218-221, 296-311
Report: The Arch of Constantine

Theme:  The Message of Style
 

RK112-8
Th 4/6  Byzantine

Honor and Fleming 311-328
Vikan, "Sacred Image, Sacred Power"
Web assignment: Glory of Byzantium

Theme: The Power of Sacred Images
 

 RK112-9
F 4/7  QUIZ
M 4/10 Early Medieval

Honor and Fleming 328-340, 364-370

Visit to Special Collections, Tutt, Facsimiles of Early Medieval Manuscripts
 

RK112-10
T 4/11 Romanesque 

Honor and Fleming 370-383
Report: The Bayeux Tapestry

Theme: The Last Judgement
 

RK112-11

 

W 4/12 Gothic

Honor and Fleming 383-399
Web assignments: Amiens Cathedral
The Hours of Jeannne d'Evreux

Theme: The Heavenly Jerusalem
 

RK112-12 
Th 4/13 Italian Gothic

Honor and Fleming 400-416
Web Assignment: The Arena Chapel

Theme: Trecento Florence

RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC DUE
 

RK112-13
F  4/14  Late Gothic/Early "Renaissance" in Northern Europe

Honor and Fleming 417-421, 430-435
Web assignments: The Tres Riches Heures

Report: The Arnolfini Portrait

Theme: Hidden symbolism
 

RK112-14
M 4/17 Italian 15th century

Honor and Fleming 422-430, 436-461
Baxandall, Fifteenth Century Italy, 1-108
Web Assignment: The Dome of Florence Cathedral

Theme: Art and Science--One Point Perspective
 

RK112-15
Tu 4/18 Italian 15th century

Baxandall, Fifteenth Century Italy 109-153
 

W 4/19 FINAL EXAM
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE       BLOCK 8
M 4/24 High Renaissance 

Honour and Fleming 473-504

Web Assignment:  The Sistine Chapel
 

RK112-16
Tu 4/25
 
 
 

7:30

Sixteenth Century Trends,  Mannerism, etc.

Honour and Fleming 461-473, 504-513

Class Report: El Greco

Lecture: "Piety, Pride, Power: The Portrait in Renaissance Florence," 
Professor Marvin Eisenberg, W.E.S. Room

RK112-17
W 4/26 Italian  Baroque

Honour and Fleming 574-595
Martin, Baroque, 11-154, 274-279

Web Assignment:  Caravaggio

Class Report: Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
 

RK112-18
Th 4/27 Northern Baroque

Honour and Fleming 595-613
Martin, Baroque, 155-273, 280-296

Web Assignment:  Paintings of Vermeer

Class Report: Rembrandt's Self Portraits
 

RK112-19
F 4/28 Dutch and French Baroque

Berger, Ways of Seeing 7-127
Martin, Baroque, review

Class Report: Dutch Still Life
 

RK112-20
M 5/1 Neoclassicism, Rococo

Honour and Fleming 614-639

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND OUTLINE DUE
 

RK112-21
Tu 5/2 Romanticism, Realism

Honour and Fleming 642-691

Class Report: Courbet's Real Allegory
 

RK112-22
W 5/3 Impressionism

Honour and Fleming 706-718
Smith, Impressionism, 7-57; 113-143

Class Reports:  The Paris Opera House

                      Impressionist Images of the City
 

I RK112-23
Th 5/4 Impressionism

Smith, Impressionism 59-111

Class Report: Female Impressionist Painters
 

RK112-23
F 5/5  QUIZ 
M 5/8 Post Impressionism

Honour and Fleming  718-739

Smith, Impressionism, 145-169

 

RK112-24
Tu 5/9  Early Twentieth Century Art

Honour and Fleming 772-800
Handout on Matisse

Class Report: Matisse
 

RK112-25
W 5/10
8:45 a.m.
FIELD TRIP TO DENVER MUSEUM OF ART
Matisse Exhibition
Th 5/11 Between the Two World Wars 

Honour and Fleming 801-833
Web Museum:  The Twentieth Century
 

RK112-26
F 5/12  RESEARCH PAPERS DUE
NO CLASS
M 5/15 Art Since 1945

Honour and Fleming 834-861
Berger, Ways of Seeing, 128-155
 

RK112-27
Tu 5/16 Contemporary Art 

Honour and Fleming 862-887

RK112-27
W 5/17  FINAL EXAM 

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