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Redefinitions of Renaissance Art
Alexander Nagel
Monday, 3:00pm - 5:00pm, Lecture
Between the rise of the Mongol empire in the 13th century and the colonization of the New World in the 16th, the geographical frame of art production in the West underwent substantial and continual redefinition. It was also a period that developed a complex account of the history of art, thus reframing its own nature and development in temporal terms. The rise of cities and new systems of communication, such as print, altered the movement and reach of artistic information. New definitions of the artist and of art arose in the midst of all these changes.
Works of Art in Conversation
Philippe de Montebello
Tuesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Lecture
This course will look at how works of art change in meaning and even in appearance depending upon the context in which they are shown, focusing mostly on permanent installations and temporary exhibitions in museums. While the emphasis will be on the present, the course will also approach the subject historically.
The Art and Archaeology of Greek Sicily
Clemente Marconi
Tuesday 3:00pm - 5:00pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
This colloquium will explore the art and archaeology of Greek Sicily from the foundation of the Greek colonies in the second half of the 8th century BCE to the transformation of the island into a Roman province at the end of the 3rd century BCE. The colloquium will pay equal attention to the urbanism and monumental architecture of the main Greek centers on the island—such as Syracuse, Agrigento, and Selinunte—and to the visual arts, including both imports (such as Corinthian and Athenian vases) and local works (such as the figural decoration of temples).
Creative Conditions
Colin Eisler
Wednesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
How are artists seen and reflected in their lives and work? We will explore the continuity and shifts in topics key to the creative self image, its environment and perception. The artist’s role as witness by including self-portraits will be evaluated. Financial, social and psychological situations are all subject to examination. Art as autopsy, as science will be considered. Mystics’ roles will be examined with those of melancholics, thugs, rogues, outcasts, bohemians, paranoics, megalomaniacs.
The Archaeology of a Greek City
Alexander Sokolicek
Wednesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
This colloquium will focus on one of the central issues related to the development of western civilizations: the Greek city and its archaeological remains. But what is the ‘Greek city’? What does such a city look like? And what impact has its development had on both ancient and modern societies?
Byzantine Art, 9th to 15th Centuries
Thelma Thomas
Wednesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Lecture
Readings and lectures for this course will focus on well-known monuments of the capital city of Constantinople before turning to those of other major cities and settlements mainly in Greece, Cyprus, the Balkans and Asia Minor. We will survey developments in religious architecture, monumental spatial icons and portable icons in a range of materials and media, and illuminated manuscripts. Special attention will be paid to the image of the emperor.
The Art and Archaeology of a Roman Italy
Katherine Welch
Wednesday, 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
This course investigates the artistic production of Italy during the periods of the Roman Republic and Empire, focusing on the interconnections of architecture and urbanism, painting and sculpture. A central concern at first will be to attempt to distinguish Greek and Etruscan influences from elements that might have been indigenous to the cultures of central Italy and Rome. The course begins with the Archaic period (8th to 6th century BC) by examining the cities of southern Etruria and their relationship to Rome and other towns of old Latium. It then analyzes the period of the middle Republic (4th to 3rd century BC) and the mutual influences between the growing power of Rome and other peoples of Italy (Etruscans, Osco-Samnites, and Greeks), paying particular attention to two types of Roman colonies: those created ex novo (Cosa) and those imposed on previously existing, non-Roman cities (Paestum). The effects upon Rome of its conquests of Magna Graecia and Sicily in the 3rd century BC, as well as the heightened Hellenization that accompanied Rome's domination of the Greek East during the 2nd century BC, will be considered, for example, in the ongoing, state-of-the-art excavations at the sanctuary at Gabii.
The Art and Politics of Restoration in Europe, 1815-1825
Thomas Crow
Thursday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
Art Collecting in the USA, 1850-1940
Jonathan Brown
Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Colloquium
Auditors must have permission from the instructor before registering for this course.
The focus of this colloquium is on the evolution of collecting practices from the threshold of the Gilded Age to the start of the Second World War.
Step by Step; an Analysis of Greek Art
Güenter Kopcke
Friday 10:00am -12:00pm, Lecture
What justifies mention of Classical Greece in today’s global world and history is the indisputable role it played in its creation - as organizer of the person as decisive factor and determinant of events. The role becomes clear in the step-by-step engagement and finally overcoming of the theo-centric cultures of the Near East - for better or worse, but as fact of immense consequences for the future and the present uncontested. The course, using art as foothold and beginning point of argument, looks at the gradual progress of the Greek entity, world-historically, from near zero significance in the second millennium to spectacular rank-mid 5th century BC Athens (and climbing).
