Time Schedule:
Christine E. Goettler
ART H 366
Seattle Campus
An overview of Netherlandish, French, and German art in the context of cultural developments circa 1400-1570.
Class description
This course will explore Netherlandish, French and German art during the Renaissance (c. 1400-1570). We will examine various pictorial genres (history, portraits, landscapes, the naked body) and media (panel painting, manuscript illumination, printmaking, tapestries, sculpted wooden altarpieces, medals, gold- and silverwork). Exemplary works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Duerer, Hans Baldung Grien, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder will be examined. Art will be discussed from a range of methodological perspectives, including style, iconography, social context, gender theory, semiotics, reception theory.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lectures and discussion.
Recommended preparation
200 level courses in Art History, History, or Renaissance Literature.
Class assignments and grading
Readings will be from a textbook and assigned articles.
midterm; final exam, two short descriptive essays
REQUIRED BOOKS: James Snyder. Northern Renaissance Art. Painting, sculpture, the graphic arts from 1350 to 1550 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985). Walter Gibson, Hieronymus Bosch. Walter Gibson, Bruegel.
A reader is available at Rams copy center (4144 University Way N.E.).
OPTIONAL BOOKS:
Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn, and Keith Christiansen, eds. From Van Eyck to Bruegel. Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1998).
Craig Harbison. The Mirror of the Artist. Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995).
Stechow, Wolfgang. Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600: Sources and Documents (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 3rd paperback printing, 1999).
Grading will be based on exams and short papers.
