ARTH 219 - Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Printmaking

FC ARHU

4 credits
Albrecht Dürer is one of Europe’s most important early modern artists. He made key contributions to new definitions of art and artists, publishers and intellectual property, and identity and fame. This course will emphasize his work as a print maker, using the Allen’s rich collection of almost 100 examples. We will attend to their iconography, materials, and circulation. We will also place him in the context of his artistic contemporaries and competitors in Germany and Italy, and interpret his work in the context of Early Modern Europe, with particular emphasis on humanism and the Protestant Reformation. Field trip(s) required.

Prerequisites: one 100-level course in ARTH.