Art History 697F - ST-Art&Lit/RenaissanceFlorence

Fall
2020
01
3.00
Monika Schmitter;Michael Papio
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
68223
Fully Remote Class
mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu;papio@hfa.umass.edu
68222,68241
This course, team-taught by professors in Art History and Italian Literature, explores the fascinating world of artists, sculptors, poets and philosophers who lived in Florence during the city's most celebrated centuries. Students will become acquainted with the major intellectual trends that shaped their thinking and with the works they produced. Notable figures to be studied include Dante, Giotto, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Donatello, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Botticelli and most of the Medici.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.