Spring 2024 Art History GU4023 section 001

Medieval Art II: Castles, Cathedral, and

MEDIEVAL ART II

Call Number 13420
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
612 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Gregory Bryda
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This advanced lecture course is intended for students with little or no background in medieval art of Latin (“Western”) Europe. It provides a comprehensive introduction to a period spanning roughly one millennium, from Pope Gregory the Great’s defense of art ca. 600 to rising antagonism against it on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Themes under consideration include Christianity and colonialism, pilgrimage and the cult of saints, archaism versus Gothic modernism, the drama of the liturgy, somatic and affective piety, political ideology against “others,” the development of the winged altarpiece, and pre-Reformation iconophobia. We will survey many aspects of artistic production, from illuminated manuscripts, portable and monumental sculpture, stained glass, sumptuous metalworks, drawings, and reliquaries to the earliest examples of oil paintings and prints. While this course is conceived as a pendant to Medieval Art I: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Byzantine Empire (AHIS GU4021), each can be taken independently of one another. In addition to section meetings, museum visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, and The Morgan Library are a required component to the course. Students must register for a mandatory discussion section.

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 32 students (60 max) as of 4:06PM Sunday, December 1, 2024
Subject Art History
Number GU4023
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20241AHIS4023W001