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May 14, 2024
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ARTS 316 - Monastic Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Semester Offered: Second Semester Full Course Credits: 4 Credits Attribute: 4HU
Monasteries were a major venue for artistic production from the sixth to the fifteenth century. We will examine how monks, nuns and friars used art and architecture in their religious life. We will study such works as the book of Kells,made for Irish monks, Cluniac monasteries on the pilgrimage roads, and work associated with new orders including Cistercian monasteries like Fontenay and the art of the mendicant orders of Sts. Francis and St. Dominic. Enrollment Limit: 30 Instructor: E. Inglis Prerequisites & Notes : A 100-level art history class or consent of instructor.
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