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Dr. C.J. Campbell
Art History Department
Carlos Hall M28 (Mezzanine Level)
phone: (404) 727-6682
e-mail: cjcampb@emory.edu
Wednesdays, 10:30-12:00 or by appointment.
This year's case study focuses on the period between approximately 1270 and 1470 primarily in Italy, but with excursions to Northern Europe. The course will feature such well-known artists as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Jan Van Eyck, Piero della Francesco, Donatello and Mantegna, and such great stages of art production as the City Hall in Siena, the square of the Duomo in Florence, and the Ducal Palace in Urbino. We will examine the historiographic traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth century that have shaped the field of study, as well as contemporary approaches to the understanding of relationships between art and society in the context of institutions, from the microcosm of the family to the macrocosm of the state.
In addition to attending lectures and participating in weekly discussion sessions course work will include two short analytic papers, a midterm and a final.
Readings
The Required Texts (available in EU Bookstore) are:
- John Paoletti and Gary Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy (Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1997).
- Craig Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context(New York: Abrams, Prentice-Hall, 1995).
Other required readings are indicated on the schedule, and will
either be provided as handouts or made available at the Reserve Desk.
Lecture sheets providing essential information about the works of art discussed in
class will be provided. These sheets will also list terms and suggest supplementary
readings on the topics covered. Copies will be available on this web site.
Evaluation
- Class Participation -- 20%
- attendance -- 10%
- preparation and participation in class discussion -- 10%
- Term Papers -- 40%
- first paper -- 15%
- second paper -- 25%
- Exams -- 40%
- term test --15%
- final exam -- 25%
Please note that attendance and participation in class discussion make up a
significant portion of your grade. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each
class. After the first two missed classes, one of your ten attendance points will be deducted for each subsequent absense.
Schedule (subject to revision)
Sep 1 -- General Introduction
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, Intro.
Sep 4 -- Labor Day (no class meeting)
Sep 6 -- Introduction: Central Italy the Veneto in the late 13th-Century
Sep 8 -- Discussion: The Rebirth of Art?
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 42-64; Giorgio Vasari, "Preface" and "Life of Giotto," from Lives of the Artists, trans. G. Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965), handout.
Sep 11 -- Papal Rome and Angevin Naples
Sep 13 -- The Church of San Francesco at Assisi
Sep 15 -- Discussion: Innovation and Social Function at the Arena Chapel
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 65-85; Laura Jacobus, "Piety and Propriety in the Arena Chapel," Renaissance Studies 12(1998): 177-205, e-reserve.
Sep 18 -- Duccio, Giotto and the New Art in Siena and Florence
Sep 20 -- Siena: The City of the Virgin
Sep 22 -- Discussion: Text, Image and the Representation of Earthly Authority
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 86-110; Brunetto Latini, "On Government," from The Book of the Treasure, trans. Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993), handout.
Sep 25 -- Art, Death and Dynasty
Sep 27 -- Roads to Heaven and Hell: Pisa and Florence
Sep 29 -- Discussion: Social Crisis and the Visual Arts
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 111-127, 130-55; Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1951), pp. 3-73, Reserve Desk.
Oct 2 -- International Gothic in Burgundy and Milan
Oct 4 -- Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden
Oct 6 -- Discussion: Realism and Symbolism
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 158-166; Harbison, chaps. 1 & 2; David Carrier, "Naturalism and Allegory in Flemish Painting," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1987): 237-49, e-reserve.
Oct 9 -- Portraiture in Northern Europe; Video: Masters of Illusion
Oct 11 -- Books of Hours (Pitts Theological Library)
Oct 13 -- Term Test
Readings (for Oct. 11): A Hypertext Book of Hours, ed. G. Gunhouse.
Oct 16 -- Fall Break
Oct 18 -- Florence Renewed: The Piazza del Duomo and Orsanmichele
Oct 20 -- Discussion: Citizens as Famous Men
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 176-186; Leonardo Bruni, Laudatio, e-reserve; Manetti Life of Brunelleschi, e-reserve.
Oct 23 -- Brunelleschi and Florentine Architecture; Term Paper #1 Due
Oct 25 -- Stylistic Diversity in 15th-Century Florence
Oct 27 -- Discussion: A Social History of Style?
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 186-200; Frederick Antal, Excerpt from Florentine Painting and its Social Background. The Bourgeouis Republic before Cosimo de' Medici's Advent to Power: XIV and Early XV Centuries (London: Kegan Paul, 1948), e-reserve.
Oct 30 -- Masaccio and Masolino at the Carmine
Nov 1 -- Florentine Citizens and their Palaces: Public, Private & Personal
Nov 3 -- Art and the Consumer
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 200-232; Richard Goldthwaite, "Consumer Demand in Renaissance Italy," in Patronage and Society in Renaissance Italy, ed. F.W. Kent and P. Simons (Oxford: Oxford UP), 153-75, e-reserve.
Nov 6 -- Art and Ritual: Filippo Lippi & Fra Angelico
Nov 8 -- Art and Ritual: Paolo Uccello & Benozzo Gozzoli
Nov 10 -- Discussion: Art and Experience
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 232-235; Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Renaissance Italy: A Primer in the History of Pictorial Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), chap. 2, handout.
Nov 13 -- Piero della Francesca: Arezzo and Borgo San Sepolcro
Nov 15 -- The Court and its Artists: Urbino & Ferrara
Nov 17 -- Discussion: Knowledge and Identity
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 281-287; Stephen Campbell, "'Non vanis aut lascivis': Painting Poetry and the Studio of Belfiore", in Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style/Politics and the Renaissance City 1450-1495 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), book on reserve.
Nov 20 -- Triumphal Monuments: Sigismondo Malatesta and San Francesco in Rimini
Nov 22 -- Triumphal Monuments: The Arch of Alfonso I of Naples
Nov 24 -- Thanksgiving Holiday
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 252-256.
Nov 27 -- The Ideal City: L.B. Alberti, Bernardo Rossellino & Pius II
Nov 29 -- The Gonzaga Court in Mantua: Pisanello, Alberti & Mantegna
Dec 1 -- Discussion: Art and Power
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 241-251, 287-293; Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge, "Room for a Prince: the Camera Picta in Mantua, 1465-1474," in Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy 1300-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, book on reserve.
Dec 4 -- Florentine Merchants & Flemish Painting
Dec 6 -- The Myth of Medici Florence: Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli
Dec 8 -- Conclusions
Readings: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 294-302.
Dec 11 -- (Course Evaluations) Review; Term Paper #2 Due
Dec 20 -- FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, December 20, 8:30-11:00 a.m.
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