Ancient to Medieval, Art 150

Syllabus

Set book:
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, The Visual Arts: A History, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 4th ed, 1995

BRING THIS BOOK TO CLASS! Bring all your assignments to class, every time.

Courses Introduction What you should be doing now

INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to course, purposes of art, artistic approaches to truth

THE FOUNDATIONS: ART AS STATEMENT
2. 19-24 Sumerian Art
3. 25-31 Akkadian Art
4. 32-42 Egyptian Art, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom
5. 42-51 Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Minoan
6. 51-55
59-62		 Mycenean
Hittites
7. 62-74 Egyptian, New Kingdom
8. REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons

THE CULMINATION: CLASSICAL ART
9. 95-100 Archaic Greece, kouroi and korai
10. 101-103 Archaic Greece, drawing
11. 104-109 Classical Greece, temples, orders
12. 110-118 Classical Greece, Pediment sculpture, Idealization

NEW IDEAS: ART AS OBSERVATION AND DIALOGUE
13. 118-126 Late Classical Greece, naturalism
14. 126-132 Scythians and Celts, pattern, fantasy, movement
15. 133-140 Etruscans, character, portraiture, humor
16. 141-151 Hellenistic sculpture, energy, violence, excitement, pathos
17. 154-162 Hellenistic and Roman painting, perspective, style

THE OLDEST IDEAS OF ALL
18. REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons
19. 4-12 PREPARED DISCUSSION: Prehistoric Art

MID-TERM BREAK

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ART FOR DOMINATION
20. 24 Oct WRITTEN TEST: all terms, concepts, styles, periods, and comparisons, so far
21. 162-170 Roman Architecture
22. 170-182 Roman Sculpture
23. 264-279 Early Christian Art, symbolic scenes
24. 282-289 Byzantine Architecture, Justinian and Hagia Sophia, an architectural miracle
25. 279-282
289-291		 Byzantine Art, Justinian and Ravenna
Byzantine Art, Justinian and Mount Sinai, miraculous optical illusions
26. 291-296 Byzantine Art, Icons and Iconoclasm, optical effects
27. 297-300 Insular Art, complexity, symbolic abstractions
28. REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles

STYLE AS MEANING
29. 300-308 Carolingian Art
30. 332-338 Ottonian Art
31. 338-342 Italian Romanesque Architecture
32. 342-349 French Romanesque Art and Architecture, The Millenium, vaulting problems
33. 349-351 High Romanesque, vaulting solutions
34. 351-360 French Gothic Architecture, the fulfillment of the prophecies
35. 362-367 Gothic Sculpture and the Anti-Christ
36. REVIEW: terms, concepts, comparisons, styles

ART AND CHURCH REFORM
37. 367-376 Italian Gothic, the icon as altarpiece
38. 376-380 Italian Gothic, Giotto, earthy realism

FINAL EXAM:

How many different ways can art address the spiritual?

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