School of Liberal Arts: Art
2008-2009 Academic Year
262
ARHS 317 Greek Art and Archaeology (3)
Prof. Carter. Greek arts (architecture, sculpture, and painting) and material culture
in the light of social, intellectual, and historical developments from the end of the
Bronze Age (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) to the end of the Hellenistic period (31 B.C.E.).
Same as CLAS 317.
ARHS 318 Roman Art and Archaeology (3)
Prof. Lusnia. Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Rome and the
Roman Empire, their sources, and their history from the Etruscan period through
the 4th century C.E. Same as CLAS 318.
ARHS 319 Pompeii: Roman Society and Culture in Microcosm (3)
Prof. Lusnia. A survey of Roman culture through the study of the town destroyed
by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The focus is on the society, politics, religion,
domestic life, entertainment, economy, and art of Pompeii and the surrounding
region in the early imperial period. Same as CLAS 319 and HISA 319.
ARHS 320 Early Christian and Byzantine Art (3)
Prof. Flora. A survey of art and architecture in the Mediterranean from the third
through the fourteenth centuries, with a focus on the rise of Christian art in the
late Roman world and the art of the Byzantine state.
ARHS 321 Art and Experience in the Middle Ages (3)
Prof Flora. A survey in which both modern and historical categories of experience
are used to understand the art of the Middle ages, especially as it manifested itself
in the most characteristic of all medieval forms, the church. Along a chronological
and geographical trajectory from Early Christian Rome to Gothic Paris this course
will move through topics such as memory, poetry, pilgrimage, the body, gesture,
devotion, narrative and liturgy.
ARHS 323 Visual Culture in Golden Age Spain (3)
Staff. This course will study the cultural role of images, largely painting, in Spain
during the period 1500-1700. Topics to be explored include: the pictorial use of
mythological themes in the projection of imperial power, the importance of
portraiture in the legitimization of the Spanish monarchy, the art market and the
social status of the artist. While painting will be our main focus, we will examine
other visual documents such as maps and read literary works that illuminate the
functions of images in the period. Counts as elective credit towards the art history
major. Same as SPAN 423.
ARHS 331 Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy (3)
Staff. Painting and sculpture in Italy from 1250 to 1500 with some attention given
to architecture.
ARHS 332 16th-Century Italian Art (3)
Prof. Tuttle. Painting and sculpture in Italy from the High Renaissance to the
Counter Reformation.
ARHS 333 Italian Renaissance Architecture (3)
Staff. A survey of the major architects and their principal achievements in theory
and design during the period 1400-1600.