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(for juniors, seniors and graduate students)

    401 GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE (3-9 credits):
  • Developments in Greek art and architecture, tenth century B.C. to first century B.C.; emphasis on the importance of Greek sanctuaries. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201 or 311. (Dr. Walters)
    405 PIONEERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE (3-6 credits):
  • Selected period or theme in the development of modern architecture during the nineteenth and/or early twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 202, or 307. (Dr. Zabel)
  • recent topics:
  • Arts & Crafts To Art Nouveau Architecture
  • Germany & Architecture: Schinkel to Speer
    409 MUSEUM STUDIES:
  • An introduction to the professional activities that occur in art museums (Ms. Kletchka).
    410 TASTE AND CRITICISM IN ART:
  • History and literature of art criticism demonstrating the varied philosophic, cultural, iconographic, technical, and visual approaches. Prerequisite: 6 credits of art history. (Dr. Rich)
    411 ROMAN ART (3-9 credits):
  • Roman sculpture and painting from Augustus to Constantine. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201, or 311. (Dr. Walters)
    412 THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL:
  • Specific aspects of Romanesque and Gothic church architecture of western Europe, especially France and England, between 1000 and 1500. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201, 302 or 312. (Dr. Smith)
    414 ITALIAN BAROQUE PAINTING:
  • Survey of Italian Baroque painting from sixteenth-century proto-Baroque masters to painters of the late Baroque and Rococo periods. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, or 304. (Dr. Curran)
    415 THE SKYSCRAPER:
  • Origin and evolution of the skyscraper as seen against the background of cultural conditions and technological factors. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 202, or 307. (Dr. Zabel)
    416 AMERICAN PAINTING 1876-1913:
  • Art in the United States between 1876 and 1913; emergence of an American art and transition to the modern styles. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, or 307. (Dr. Mazow)
    420 RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE:
  • Russian architecture from the first Orthodox churches of the late tenth century to the end of the Soviet Union. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 112, 201, or 202. (Dr. Zabel)
    422 STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE (3-9 credits):
  • Specific studies of western European sculpture, 300-1500, with attention to sources, styles, type, and iconography. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201, 302, or 312. (Dr. Smith)
  • Recent topics:
  • ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE (Dr. Smith)
  • GOTHIC SCULPTURE (Dr. Smith)
    423 STUDIES IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART:
  • Specific studies of Italian Renaissance art, including the work of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 202, or 303. (Dr. Curran)
  • Recent topics:
  • AROUND (AND ABOUT) MICHELANGELO (Dr. Curran)
    424 MASTERS OF NORTHERN BAROQUE ART:
  • Seventeenth-century painters in Flanders and Holland, including the works of artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, or 314. (Dr. Houghton)
    432 PROBLEMS IN ICONOLOGY (3-9 credits):
  • The investigation of content and meaning in major monuments of the history of art. Prerequisite: 6 credits of art history. (Dr. Cutler)
    435 STUDIES IN MODERN ART (3-6 credits):
  • Lectures focusing on a selected movement of nineteenth- or twentieth-century art. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 202, 305, 307, or 325. (Dr. Locke)
  • Recent topics:
  • ABSTRACTION (Dr. Rich)
  • KANDINSKY AND DER BLAUE REITER (Dr. McGrady)
  • CEZANNE / PICASSO / MATISSE (Dr. Locke)
  • MANET (Dr. Locke)
  • PARIS (Dr. Locke)
  • THE LURE OF MODERNITY (Dr. Locke)
    442 LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ART:
  • Survey of the architecture, painting, and minor arts of Christian society from its beginning to the mid-sixth century. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201, or 302. (Dr. Cutler)
    450 THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
  • The history of photography from 1839, with particular emphasis on the relationship to the plastic arts. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 202, 305, 307, or 325. (Dr. Locke)
    452 BYZANTINE ART:
  • Monumental and minor arts of Byzantium and related areas from the reign of Justinian to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 111, 201, or 302. (Dr. Cutler)
    454 SPANISH BAROQUE ART:
  • Survey of seventeenth-century Spanish painting and sculpture, with an emphasis on Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, and Zurbarán. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, or 304.
    464 FRENCH BAROQUE PAINTING:
  • Examination of seventeenth-century French painting, including Italian influences; the provincial, Classical, and official styles in France. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, or 304.
    470 AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE SINCE 1940:
  • Painting and sculpture in the United States from the origins of Abstract Expressionism through the present. Prerequisite: ART H 100, 112, 307, or 325. (Dr. Rich)
    497 SPECIAL TOPICS recent examples:
  • TRADITIONAL ARTS OF WEST AFRICAN ART (Dr. Okeke-Agulu or Ms. Gbadegesin)
  • MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART (Dr. Okeke-Agulu)
  • MODERNITY AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA (Ms. Gbadegesin)
  • COLONIAL URBANISM IN ASIA (Dr. Desai)
  • ANCIENT RULERSHIP IN EGYPT (Dr. Walters)
  • ANCIENT VILLAS & ART (Dr. Walters)
  • MONASTIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES (Dr. Smith)
  • THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE AS MYTH AND REPRESENTATION (Dr. Israel)
  • THE ART OF DEATH: EARLY MODERN COMMERATION PRACTICES (Dr. Israel)
  • ITALIAN SCULPTURE 1200­1700 (Dr. Curran)
  • REFORMATION AND ICONOCLASM (Dr. Houghton)
  • PLAY IN NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART (Dr. Houghton)
  • NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART (Dr. Rich)
  • AMERICAN ART 1913 1945 (Dr. Mazow)
  • li> ART: 1940 TO 1962 (Dr. Rich)
  • AFRICAN AMERICAN ART (Dr. Robinson)
  • CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART SINCE 1900 (Dr. Robinson)
  • ART HISTORY AND THEORY (Dr. Cutler)

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