Giotto to Dürer: Late Medieval and Renaissance Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
X03.9748
/ $450
SPRING 2010
Continuing Education:
Arts Programs
Traverse the path of painting from the late Medieval to the High Renaissance periods in Italy and northern Europe. Begin with Giotto, praised by Vasari for resurrecting "the true art of painting," and finish with Dürer, art theorist and friend of Martin Luther. Other artists covered include Duccio, Mantegna, Botticelli, Bellini, Raphael, Titian, van Eyck, Memling, Bouts, David, Bosch, Bruegel, Holbein, and Cranach. Key topics include the sacred and the secular, icon and narrative imagery, political and historical background, humanism, perspective, tempera versus oil painting, trompe l'oeil, atmospheric perspective, realism, classicism, and contemporary literature and criticism.
Tuition includes museum fees.
Related Subject Areas: Art History
Course Materials
Section 1
Wednesday 11:15am-1:15pm
February 10 - April 28
No class 3/17, 3/24
10 Sessions
Instructor:
Heather Masciandaro
Location: Off Campus
