FA 30B History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern Sp. 2018
Prof. Peter Kalb MWTh 10:00 -10:50 Mandel G12 Office Hours: Wed 2-4 and by appointment, Mandel 208
Course Description
This class will introduce significant themes of form and content in the history of western visual arts. You should leave the course familiar with artistic trends since the Renaissance and the conceptual tools used to discuss them.
Required Text
H. W. Janson’s History of Art, 8th Edition (in softcover, Vol.II). Additional texts will be made available on LATTE as relevant to class discussion.
Assignments
Quizzes and Exams
· ID Quizzes: There will be 4 short quizzes that test your ability to identify works by artists we have discussed in class, answer short questions about their content and context, and define vocabulary. IDs will require artist, movement, nationality, and date. Vocabulary can be found in the text, The IDs are timed and the lowest quiz grade is dropped.
· Final Exam: The final will consist of several essay questions that you will receive in advance. The final will be cumulative and answers should be drawn from lectures, texts, and the art. Further explanation will be provided as the final approaches.
MFA Museum Paper
5-7 page essay analyzing the form and content of two works of art at the MFA. Details of the assignment to be distributed in class.
Submit paper on LATTE by midnight April 23.
Percentage Breakdown of Grades
Museum Paper 20
Quizzes 3 x 15% - lowest quiz grade is dropped 45
Final 35
General Class Policies: Attendance: Absences in excess of three class periods will be considered grounds for a 2% reduction of final grade per missed class. Alternative Test Needs: The quizzes are timed tests, should you require alternative test format for any reason talk to me at the beginning of the semester so we can find a test to meet your needs. Cell Phones: Please turn the ringers of your cell phones off. Laptops: Laptop use is fine - online shopping, facebook… not so much. Non-course-related computer use will be considered grounds for 2% reduction of final grade per infraction. Late assignments: Paper grades will be reduced 1/3 grade per day late. Academic Honesty: Unless stated otherwise, you are encouraged to share ideas and information as you write and study. You must, of course, complete your own quizzes, write your own essays, and I expect no two papers to be identical in part or whole. When using the writings and thoughts of others cite your sources in footnotes. Start any research you do with Louis, Art and Architecture Databases on the Brandeis Scholar, and WorldCat (on LTS find Databases page). Internet sources need to be footnoted with full notation of the name of the essay found and the website on which you found it. If I can’t get to it, it doesn’t count. Cite journal articles downloaded from Jstor as hard copy not webpages. Honor Code To establish in a formal manner that your work has been completed in accordance with all codes of academic honesty please write and sign, “I have neither given nor received un-authorized aid on this exam/essay” at the end of all tests and papers.
Success in this 4 credit hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend a minimum of 9 hours of study time per week in preparation for class (readings, papers, discussion sections, preparation for exams, etc.).If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately.
You are expected to be honest in all of your academic work. The University policy on academic honesty is distributed annually as section 5 of the Rights and Responsibilities handbook. Instances of alleged dishonesty will be forwarded to the Office of Campus Life for possible referral to the Student Judicial System. Potential Sanctions include failure in the course and suspension from the University.
1. 1.10 / Intro – 13-14th c Italy:
Pisano, Cimabue, Giotto, Duccio, Martini, Lorenzetti / 437-463
2. 1.11
1.15 / NO CLASS MLK / 505-555
3. 1.17 / Early Renaissance Italy:
Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Nanni, Donatello, Masaccio, Gentile, Piero, Botticelli, Bellini, Perugino
4. 1.18
5. 1.22
6. 1.24 / High Renaissance Italy:
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian. / 557-588
7. 1.25
8. 1.29
9. 1.31 / Mannerism & Late Renaissance Italy:
Rosso, Pontormo, Michelangelo, Bologna, Parmigianino, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto / 591-623
10. 2.01
11. 2.05 / QUIZ I
12. 2.07 / Northern Renaissance:
Campin, vEyck, Rogier vdWeyden, Hugo vdGoes, Bosch, Grünewald, Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Patinir, Bruegel, / 476-499, 625, 634-658.
13. 2.08
14. 2.12
15. 2.14 / Southern Baroque – Italy and Spain:
Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Annibale Carracci, Reni, Guercino, Bernini, Borromini, Velazquez, Zurbarán / 661-97
16. 2.15
2.19, 2.21, 2.22: NO CLASS
17. 2.26 / Northern Baroque – Netherlands and France:
Rubens, van Dyke, Peeters, de Heem, Terbruggen, Hals, Leyster, Rembrandt, van Goyen, Ruisdael, Steen, Vermeer, La Tour, Poussin, / 699-746
18. 2.28
19. 2.29
20. 3.5
21. 3.7 / QUIZ II
22. 3.8 / Rococo, Neoclassicism & Romanticism:
Watteau, Fragonard, Clodion, Hogarth, Kauffman, Flaxman, West, Greuze, David Ingres, Gros, Gericault, Delacroix, Goya, Turner, Friedrich, Canova, Bayre, Rude / 761-774, 785-819, 821-851
23. 3.12
24. 3.14
25. 3.15
26. 3.19 / Realism and Early Photography:
Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Bonheur, Manet, Degas, Eakins, Muybridge, Emerson, Homer, Nadar, Watkins, O’Sullivan, Cameron, Rosetti. / 859-871, 887-897, 936-942
27. 3.21
28. 3.22
29. 3.26
30. 3.28 / Quiz III
31. 3.29 / Impressionism:
Monet, Manet, Renoir, / 871-880
4.02, 4.04, 4.05 Break NO CLASS
32. 4.09 / Impressionism: Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, Rodin
33. 4.11
34. 4.12 / Post-Impressionism and Symbolism:
Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Modersohn-Becker, Moreau, Munch, Klimt. / 903-927, 966-969
35. 4.16
36. 4.18
37. 4.19 / Modernism and 20th Century Art:
Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Malevich, Duchamp, Miro, Oppenheim, Dali, Dubuffet, Pollock, Rothko / 945-963,
983-1000, 1035-43 / Paper Due 4.23
38. 4.23
4.25 NO Class
39. 4.26 / Modernism continued
QUIZ IV and Final TBA.
Course Schedule, Readings, and Assignments. (Changes will be announced in class and posted in LATTE)