ARTS 318 - Painting and the Discourses of Art in Italy, 1400-1600

First Semester.  Although painting and related forms of two-dimensional representation stand at the center of what most people mean by “art” today, that has not always been the case.  Painting began gradually to displace sculpture and architecture during the Italian Renaissance, and largely as a consequence of thinkers who wrote about art.  This course traces four paradigmatic “confrontations” of painting with the other arts as well as with art theory, beginning in the early 15th century and finishing at the end of the 16th.  Not appropriate for first-year students; prerequisite: one 200-numbered course in Art History or instructor’s consent. 

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Any 200 level Art course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment Limit: 40. 

Mr. Hood

Credits: 3