Spring 2024 Art History GR8024 section 001

Triumphal Arches: Titus to Ai Weiwei

Triumphal Arches

Call Number 16745
Day & Time
Location
T 10:10am-12:00pm
934 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Francesco de Angelis
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This seminar will address the many questions posed by arches—an outdated, certainly problematic, and yet everpresent monumental genre—by studying the main extant instances from Roman antiquity and by tackling their historical permutations and parallels up to today. Covered themes include: the arches’ relationship to movement and mobility; arches as boundary markers and as connectors; their diffusion in non-architectural media; the semantics and the pragmatics of the arcuate form; violence, victory, sublimation, and memory. Graduate students from all departments, as well as advanced undergraduates, are most welcome to apply.

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 4 students (12 max) as of 10:07AM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Art History
Number GR8024
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Apply by 5pm, Jan. 4th: https://forms.gle/kXuWsqt8Tt1wZvvy9
Section key 20241AHIS8024G001