The Arnolfini Portrait by painter Jan van Eyck

Northern Renaissance Art Part III

Cost
465.00

This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Open Enrollment curriculum.

Was there a "Renaissance" in Northern Europe? In this course, students will investigate the evolving traditions and techniques of the period, focusing particularly on the impact of new media (oil paint, printmaking); religious developments (private devotion, Christian humanism, and the Protestant Reformation); and types of painting (landscape, still life, portraiture). We will also reflect on "realism" and symbolism, Italy and the North, courtly and bourgeois patronage, class divisions and popular art, gender and witchcraft, and the rise of art markets. New students are welcome; previous quarters are not required.

The Spring Quarter will cover the sixteenth century. Artists considered in the first part include Jean Pucelle, the Limbourg Brothers, Claus Sluter, Jan van Eyck, and Rogier van der Weyden. Artists discussed in the second part of the course include Rogier, Petrus Christus, Dieric Bouts, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, and Gerard David, Albrecht Dürer, and Martin Schongauer. Artists covered in the third part of the course include Stefan Lochner, Veit Stoss, Tilman Riemenschneider, Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Matthias Grünewald, Hans Baldung Grien, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein, Geertgen tot sint Jans, Hieronymus Bosch, Quentin Metsys, Bernard van Orley, Jan van Scorel, Maerten van Heemskerck, Joachim Patinir, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Hendrik Goltzius.

Course Outline

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, The Northern Renaissance (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004). ISBN 978-0714838670

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK (available for rental from Amazon.com and for purchase from other online retailers such as Abebooks)

(Due to the exceptional expense of purchasing this textbook, which can also be rented from Amazon, it is recommended rather than required. Page numbers will be suggested but not required.)

James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, and the Graphic Arts from 1350-1575, 2nd. ed., rev. by Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen (Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2004).

OTHER RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Craig Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 1995).

Wolfgang Stechow, Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600: Sources and Documents (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1989).

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Course Syllabus

Online registration deadline: Thurs, Mar 16, 5PM CT