ART 485-01, Sculpture in Early Renaissance Florence, Fall 2007

Abstract

This course will introduce students to advanced critical methods of art history through an extensive examination of Early Renaissance Sculpture in Italy. Students will be introduced to the most important artists and issues and engage in analysis of the most current research and exhibitions in the field. Students will fully engage themselves with an extensive bibliography, intensive critical debates, and critical issues of iconography, connoisseurship, patronage, and the contextualization of renaissance sculpture. A crucial aspect of the course is to learn how art historians select objects and subjects for research, how they investigate works of art, and how they employ different methodologies in the course of critical analysis.