Topics course. A consideration of the ancient city: architecture, painting, sculpture, and objects of everyday life. Women and freed people as patrons of the arts will be emphasized. The impact of the rediscovery of Pompeii and its role as a source of inspiration in 18th, 19th, and 20th Century art will also be discussed. Group I. No prerequisite.

Topics Course The Forbidden City palace in Beijing constituted the center of Chinese imperial power from the year 1420, when it was constructed, until the early twentieth century. Now home to the Palace Museum, the Forbidden City has captured the world?s imagination, attracting millions of tourists annually.

Topics Course An interdisciplinary study of the cult of relics ? one of the most distinctive and complex phenomena in the social, religious are artistic life of the Middle Ages. Using both primary texts and the rich body of scholarly literature, we will examine a broad range of reliquaries ? whether abstract or shaped into a body part; purely ornamental or enhanced with narrative scenes; made of humble or of luxury materials. Issues will include: the evolving understanding of relics?

Topics Course What is African Art? Why are so many different kinds of cultural expression from such a large and diverse continent categorized in the same way? This course emphasizes artistic creation from the perspective of artists by studying works from various African cultures. We will analyze the creation of African art as a subject of inspiration and research. African Diasporic arts and contemporary African art are discussed throughout the semester. Students examine both scholarly and popular interpretations of art to develop skills in critical analysis and visual literacy.

Art and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Exploration of the cultural legacy of the Civil War, the cosmopolitan arts of the Gilded Age, the development of early modernism, and the expansive years during and after World War II. Prerequisite: one 100-level ARH course or permission of the instructor. Group III

Artistic production under the first three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Topics include royal patronage; urban developments (London, Bath, Edinburgh); the English landscape garden; the English country house and its fittings; collecting and display; the Grand Tour; aesthetic movements (Gothic Revival, the Sublime, the Picturesque, Neoclassicism); artists' training and careers (among others, the brothers Adam, Gainsborough, Hawskmoor, Hogarth, Reynolds, Roubiliac, and Wright of Derby); maps, prints and books; center vs. periphery; city vs. country.

The giants of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael will be studied against the backdrop of shifting political tides and the emergence of Pope Julius II whose patronage caused the arts in Rome -- with such projects as the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of the Papal Apartments -- to give a particular meaning to the term Renaissance.

This course examines the Western Traditions in painting, sculpture, and architecture from circa 1500, with an emphasis on Florence, Rome (the High Renaissance), and Venice, and in Northern Europe, through the Seventeenth Century (Baroque) in Southern and Northern Europe and the Eighteenth Century (Rococo) in Northern Europe, to the Age of the Enlightenment, Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, etc., to the rise of Modernism and Modernity in the Twentieth Century (Europe and the United States of America), and concluding with the contemporary period.

This course explores how art and architecture have profoundly shaped visual experiences and shifting understandings of past and present. While featuring different case studies, each section includes work with original objects, site visits, and writings about art. Unifying themes include: (1) materials, techniques, and the patterns variously deployed to create space; (2) the design, function, and symbolism of images and monuments; (3) artistic production and its relation to individual and institutional patronage, religion, politics, and aesthetics; (4) issues turning on artists?

Celts are the only Indo-European-speaking people to adopt the Old European cult of the great mother as their dominant divinity, creating in the fourth century BC the La Tene complex in response to contacts with Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.