HART259: Early Renaissance Art and Architecture

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Lecture #1 (9-6-00)

Introduction: Central Italy and the Veneto in the Late-13th Century

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Suggestions for Supplementary Reading:

Daniel Waley, The Italian City-Republics, 2nd ed. (London: Longman, 1978).

Lecture/Discussion #2 (9-8-00)

The Rebirth of Art?

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Lecture #3 (9-11-00)

Angevin Naples and Papal Rome

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Lecture #4 (9-13-00)

Papal Rome and the Church of San Francesco in Assisi

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Lecture/Discussion #5 (9-15-00)

Innovation and Social Function at the Arena Chapel

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Arena Chapel and surrounding suildings as seen in an 18th-century print

Lecture #6 (9-18-00)

Giotto and the New Art in Florence

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Lecture #7 (9-20-00)

Duccio and the New Art in Siena

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Lecture/Discussion #8 (9-22-00)

Text, Image and the Representation of Earthly Authority

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Suggestions for Further Reading:

Chiara Frugoni, A Distant City: Images of Urban Experience in the Medieval World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Lecture #9 (9-25-00)

Art, Death and Dynasty

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Lecture 10 (9-27-00)

Visions of Heaven and Hell

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Lecture/Discussion #11 (9-29-00)

Art and Social Crisis

Excerpt from Franco Sacchetti, Il Trecentonovelle, c. 1390, novella 126:
In the city of Florence, which has always been rich in talented men, there were once certain painters and other masters who were at a place outside the city called San Miniato al Monte for some painting and other work that had to be done in the church; after they had had a meal with the abbot and were well wined and dined, they began to converse; and among other questions, this was posed by one of them called Orcagna, who was head master of the noble oratory of Our Lady of Orto San Michele: “Who was the greatest master of painting that we have had, who other than Giotto?” Some replied Cimabue, some Stefano, some Bernardo [Daddi], others Buffalmacco, and some named one master, and others another. Taddeo Gaddi, who was one of the company, said: “Centainly there have been plenty of skillful painters, and they have painted in a manner that is impossible for human hand to equal; but this art has grown and continues to grow worse day by day.”

Suggestions for Further Reading:

Samuel Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death (Baltimore, 1997).

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Lecture #12 (10-2-00)

International Gothic Art in Burgundy & Milan

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Suggestions for Further Reading:

Otto Pächt, “Early Italian Nature Studies and the Early Calendar Landscape,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 13 (1950): 13-47.

Lecture #13 (10-4-00)

Court and City in Northern Europe

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Suggestions for further Reading:

Cynthia Hahn, “‘Joseph will perfect, Mary enlighten and Jesus save thee’: the Holy Family as Marriage Model in the Mérode triptych,” Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 54-66.

Lecture/Discussion #14

Realism and Allegory in Flemish Painting

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Lecture #15 (10-9-00)

The Artist as Witness: Jan Van Eyck & Rogier van der Weyden

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