Art History

Special Topic

This interdisciplinary course examines Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, innovative artistic movements that emerged in the late 19th century. Through a unique fusion of visual art and music, students will gain a deep understanding of the Impressionist era's cultural, social, and historical contexts, exploring how artists and composers reshaped the way their viewers and listeners perceived and interpreted reality.

Art History Special Topic

Art History Special Topic

An understanding of the visual arts through study of their basic principles of design, aesthetics and role in society. Examples of all media are examined are drawn from diverse historical periods, places, and world cultures.

This course considers concepts and histories of art. Students explore core issues in the discipline of art history: What is art? What is art history? What is a masterpiece? The course addresses cultural factors that shape canons of art history, including notions of originality, genius, skill, inspiration, complexity, beauty, and taste, as well as the roles of art professionals and institutions. Attention is paid to: patronage and the art market, the academy and the museum, and the development of modernism. Beyond engaging with central questions in art history, students learn to analyze the formal aspects of works of art and to interpret them within the historical contexts in which they were made.

An introduction to the major masterpieces and monuments in the history of art from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages. (No student can receive credit for both ARTHS 2351 and 3351. ARTHS 3351 is designed for students with 60 or more credit hours.)

An introduction to the major masterpieces and monuments from the Renaissance to the present. (No student can receive credit for both ARTHS 2352 and 3352. ARTHS 3352 is designed for students with 60 or more credit hours.)

A survey of the technological and thematic developments in art and architecture in the late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian periods. Images are viewed through their religious, political, and cultural contexts.

A survey of Romanesque and Gothic art from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. Included are French pilgrimage churches and cathedrals, sculpture, stained glass windows, manuscripts, and decorative arts as well as medieval civic and religious art in Venice, Sicily, Pisa and Siena.

An introduction to the major masterpieces and monuments in the history of art from prehistoric-times to the Middle Ages. (No student can receive credit for both ARTHS 2351 and 3351. ARTHS 3351 is designed for students with 60 or more credit hours.)

An introduction to the major masterpieces and monuments from the Renaissance to the present. (No student can receive credit for both ARTHS 2352 and 3352. ARTHS 3352 is designed for students with 60 or more credit hours.)

The beginnings of Western art and thought are studied as they originate in the Aegean Bronze Age civilizations of Crete and Mycenae and developed through the Greek Classical Period.

Investigates the development of Mediterranean art, from the prehistoric Etruscans to the end of the Roman Empire; special attention is given to the influence of Roman art upon Late Antiquity.

Western European architecture, sculpture, painting and decorative arts of the late 16th to the 18th-century.

A study of the major currents in European and American art from late 18th-century Neoclassicism through Post–Impressionism.

A study of European and North American art from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. During this period of extreme change and two world wars, many artists broke from tradition and made art that responded to modernity by depicting contemporary subjects and inventing new forms.

Art in the second half of the 20th-century from mid–century Modernism through individual Post–Modern forms of art in the Contemporary world.

A survey of major works of architecture, painting and sculpture in Italy from the late 13th to the late 15th-century.

A survey of major works of architecture, painting and sculpture in Italy from the late 15th-century through the 16th-century, including the art of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

On–the–job experience under the guidance of practicing specialists in the art history field. To be supervised individually by a department faculty member with the approval of the program chair.

Student research on a selected problem in art history pursued under the guidance of an assigned member of the faculty. To be presented as a formal written paper. Repeatable course. Prerequisite: permission of program chair and instructor.

On–the–job experience under the guidance of practicing specialists in the art history field. To be supervised individually by a department faculty member with the approval of the program chair.

Student research on a selected problem in art history pursued under the guidance of an assigned member of the faculty. To be presented as a formal written paper. Repeatable course. Prerequisite: permission of program chair and instructor.

Upper–division treatment of selected topics of mutual interest to the faculty member and students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. When offered, see Website course schedule for topic.

An introduction to the symbolic language and modes of expression in Christianity from the Early Christian period to the present. It explores approaches to understand the meaning within images as recorded in scriptural and literary texts as well as local oral tradition.

Painting in Spain under the Habsburg and Bourbon monarchies from late 16th c. Mannerism through 17th c. Baroque into 18th & 19th c. Romanticism. El Greco, Velazquez, and Goya are studied in depth as well as others masters of the "Golden Age".

The sculpture, architecture, and painting of the 17th-century master who made Rome a great Baroque city through his exuberant statues, portraits, churches, chapels, papal tombs, fountains, and extensive architecture and decorations for St. Peter’s.

On–the–job experience under the guidance of practicing specialists in the art history field. To be supervised individually by a department faculty member with the approval of the program chair.

Upper–division treatment of selected topics of mutual interest to the faculty member and students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. When offered, see Website course schedule for topic.

The sculpture, painting, and architecture of the great Renaissance master centered in Florence and Rome, including in–depth study of his David, Moses, Pietas, Medici Chapel, Deposition, designs for St. Peter’s and for Rome’s Capitol, and Pauline and Sistine Chapel frescoes.

Student research on a selected problem in art history pursued under the guidance of an assigned member of the faculty. To be presented as a formal written paper. Repeatable course. Prerequisite: permission of program chair and instructor.

Upper–division treatment of selected topics of mutual interest to the faculty member and students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. When offered, see Website course schedule for topic.