ART 621 Venetian Art
This course will focus in-depth on the Venetian artists of the 15th and 16th centuries, including the painters Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Veronese and Titian, whose contributions are central to the subsequent course of western art, both religious and secular. The course will also address the architecture of Andrea Palladio. Venetian art in the Renaissance will be discussed in its unique religious, historical, political, geographical, socioeconomic and literary context. The course will be taught in seminar format with an emphasis on close visual analysis of the art and in-depth discussion of critical readings. At least one class session will be conducted at the National Gallery of Art, which has one of the finest collections of Venetian Renaissance painting in the United States. Departmental approval required.
Cross Listed Courses
ART 321 & ART 621