ART216  -  Art History Survey II: Renaissance through the 21st Cent.

Bernini: Rape of Persephone, 1622-24	Koleichuk: untitled construction, 2010

TOPIC	LINKS, etc.
Late Medieval Italy (L. 13th to early 14th centuries) : key artists: Giotto, Duccio, Lorenzetti themes: a mixture of styles; early humanism	Medieval legacy? Powerpoint on the Trecento Legacy

Late Med. and early Renaissance in N. Europe (15th c.) key artists: Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, other Flemish painters, artists of the Holy Rom. Empire themes: relig. art for the home; NE portraiture

the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century: key artists: Donatello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Botticelli, Mantegna, Ghirlandaio, Brunelleschi, Alberti themes: imitation and emulation; patronage and the artist; mature humanism; linear perspective; the Renaissance portrait	Italian art and architecture  in the 15th century, slide show Anatomy and the Artist (powerpoint with narration) The Spiritual and the Natural (narrated powerpoint)

Italy in the 16th century: regional differences and the emergence of a new style (mannerism): Key artists: Bramante, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo; new roles for the artist Venetian artists: Bellini, Titian, Palladio; new subject matter and the interest in color	Italian art in the 16th century, pt 1 Venice in the 16th century The School of Athens (narrated power point)
mannerism; the Counter-reformation; women as artist and patron; key artists: Bronzino, Parmagianino, Fontana, Anguissola, Veronese, Tintoretto: alternatives to the classical Renaissance	Mannerism
Ren. and Mannerism in 16th c. N. E. (and Spain):  themes: the Protestant reformation, iconoclasm, the cult of portraits, the growth of the market; key artists: Dürer, Grünewald, Bosch, Holbein, Bruegel
Baroque Italy and Spain (the 17th cent.) Key artists: Caravaggio, Bernini, Gentileschi; Borromini themes: dynamism and theatricality; a new emotionalism; the restoration of the Church’s power
Baroque Northern Europe the Treaty of Westphalia; new genres of painting; the middle class consumer; the king’s taste; key artists: Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Hals, Leyster, and Vermeer; key monument: Versailles French, English and Russian Baroque
From Rococo to Neoclassicism: the 18th cent. Themes: women and the academy; the pastel portrait in the 18th cent.; artifice, sentimentality and the natural; revolution and enlightenment key artists: Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Vigée-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard, Hogarth, Adam, Kauffmann, David, Greenough, Jefferson	Late Baroque/Rococo/Neoclassicism

From romanticism to realism in Europe and America themes: art as revolution; the emergence of photography and the  growth of international exhibitions key artists: Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Goya, Constable and Turner, Cole and Church, Courbet, Daumier, Manet, Homer, Eakins, Tanner, Daguerre, Cameron, O’Sullivan

Impressionism and post-impressionism: late 19th century themes: new theories of color and optics; an interest in modernity and modern life; the artist’s inner vision key artists: Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, Caillebotte, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Redon, Rodin, Horta
Early 20th century avant-gardes (art before WWII) key artists: Picasso, Braque, Boccioni, Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Duchamp key ideas and styles: cubism, futurism, absolute abstraction, art into life

From modern to postmodern to post-postmodern?  Art since 1945 key movements: abstract expressionism, post-painterly realisms, minimalism, new media
FINAL EXAM : MAY 9, 10:15 a.m., 206 MG

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