ART 206: History of Western Art
Mannerism
to Modernism
Syllabus
ART
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NOTE: This web-version syllabus is provided for your convenience.
It is not intended to take the place of in-class materials or information.
Changes or additions MAY be announced in class.
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Instructor: betsy VanderSchaaf
Office: 128 Art (Bldg. 11)
Phone: 463-5415 or (Art Office) 463-5409
Required text: Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12th edition
Gardner’s text is available in two different formats, a 2-volume paperback edition or a hardcover edition which includes the same material as the 2-volume edition. The text information and illustrations are identical in the two formats.
Students planning to enroll for Art 206 only may wish to buy Volume 2 only of the 2-volume paperback edition. .
You may purchase an earlier edition (8th-11th edition) of Gardner which may be available secondhand, if you are willing to coordinate page numbers and illustration numbers with the reading assignments and monument list. (Don’t buy an edition earlier than the 8th edition, however.)
Other textbooks which contain essentially the same (or very similar) information may also be available secondhand, and you are welcome to use them instead of Gardner. Here are two:
Hartt, Art: History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (4th or 5th edition)
Janson, History of Art (4th or 5th edition)
Copies of Art History survey textbooks are on permanent reserve in the LCC Library.
Course Objectives: This class will begin by scrutinizing the radical developments in European art created by the generation of artists following on the heels of the Renaissance Ninja Turtles (anyone remember those guys? Can you name all four?,) and will proceed to explore what happens after that, until we run out of time.* We will investigate and ponder the relationship of art to the culture in which it was created through a close examination of social, historical and political context. Our goal is to understand the complex fabric of previous eras, to discover how the visual arts are embedded in this fabric, and to reveal correspondances to our current era and especially what resonates for each of us within our spirits.
* ART 211: Early Modern (c. 1850-1910) and ART 212: 20th Century Art (c. 1907-1990) continue the chronological presentation of the visual arts to (or at least closer to) our here-and-now.
Note: If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations through Disability Services. For more information, contact Disability Services at (541) 463-5150 (voice) or 463-3079 (TTY), or stop by Building 1,
Room 218.
FYI: Tutor Central (CEN 210) offers FREE tutoring assistance as well as a nice study environment. Tutors are available for writing, MTH 010 and 020, Effective Learning and many other subjects. Most tutors are also current students and can offer ideas to assist you with any subject. Tutor Central also has two group study rooms and a quiet study room. DON’T DELAY. Statistics show that students who get tutoring help early in the term achieve significantly higher grades.
Course Requirements:
Your performance in fulfilling the fundamental objectives of this course will be based on your ability to recognize styles, movements, specific artists and dates, and to discuss and analyze these concepts within a broader cultural context.
There will be three in-class exams given during the term. The format of the exams will be described and discussed in class.
Attendance is essential, and does count toward your final grade. Your grade will be based on attendance, class participation, and the three exams. ABSOLUTELY NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN.
Grading Policy: Your recorded term grade will be based on the percentage you earn of the total points possible for the three exams (and for any additional requirements which may be assigned.) My belief is that your success and the value of this class to you (and your value to the class) can be more accurately gauged by your interest, curiousity, participation and passion. Percentages are as follows:
98-100% = A+
94-97% = A
90-93% = A-
87-89% = B+
84-86% = B
80-83% = B-
77-79% = C+
74-76% = C
70-73% = C-
60-69% = D
below 60% failing grade
SAMPLE LECTURE SCHEDULE & READING ASSIGNMENTS
Following is a sample lecture schedule for Art 206. Since this course is organized in response to group investigation of the visual and contextual material, some deviation from the following schedule may occur.
Page numbers refer to the text, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12th edition.
1st Week
The Later Work of Raphael; Mona Lisa Mona Lisa
Michelangelo's later works
READ: Chapter 22: pp. 629-632 (Raphael); pp. 632-38 (Michelangelo)
2nd Week
Mannerism
Venice; Introduction to the Baroque
READ: Chapter 22: pp. 638-47 (Venice); pp. 648-60 (Mannerism)
Chapter 23: pp. 674-86 (France, Netherlands & Spain)
Chapter 24: pp. 689-695 (Intro to Baroque)
3rd Week
The Baroque in Italy
READ: Chapter 24: pp. 695-708
Review for First Exam
4th Week
First Exam
The Baroque in Spain, Flanders & France
READ: Chapter 24: pp. 708-717 (Spain, Flanders); pp. 732-737 (France)
5th Week
The Baroque in Holland
Vermeer into the 18th Century - Rococo Art
READ: Chapter 24: pp. 718-732 (Holland); pp. 737-746 (Versailles, etc.)
6th Week
Rococo continued
Enlightenment & Neoclassicism
READ: Chapter 28: pp. 797-825
7th Week
Exam Review
Second Exam
8th Week
Goya—Turmoil without, turmoil within.
Romanticism
READ: Chapter 28: pp. 825-850
9th Week
Romanticism conclusion; Realism and Daumier
Realism and Courbet; later 19th-century art
READ: Chapter 29: pp. 853-869
10th Week
Later 19th-century art
READ: Chapter 29: pp. 869-886
Final Exam Review
11th Week
FINAL EXAMS
Instructor Updates
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Please check this section
frequently for instructor updates, or class cancelations.
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Key Monuments in the History of
Western Art
ART
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You are
responsible for the information listed below. Numbers in parentheses refer
to illustrations
in your text, "Gardner's Art Through the
Ages", 11th edition. You may be responsible for identifying "unknown" works
by artists with a * by their name. We may add or adjust works for the
last part of the term, as time permits and the
mood sways us.
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RAPHAEL:
The School of Athens, 1510-11, Stanza della Segnatura
(22-17)
Transfiguration, 1517 (LECTURE)
MICHELANGELO:
Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo,
1519-34 (22-22)
The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel, 1534-41 (22-25)
*PONTORMO:
Descent from the Cross, c. 1525-28 (22-41)
*PARMIGIANINO:
Madonna with the Long Neck, c. 1535 (22-42)
BOLOGNA:
Abduction of the Sabine Women, completed 1583
(22-47)
*TITIAN:
Pesaro Madonna, 1519-26 (22-36)
Christ Crowned with Thorns, c. 1573-75 (LECTURE)
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TINTORETTO:
The Last Supper, 1594 (22-52)
*EL GRECO:
The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586 (23-27)
*BERNINI:
Baldacchino, c.1624-33, St. Peter's, Rome (24-5)
David, 1623 (24-7)
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Cornaro Chapel, 1645-52
(24-8 & 24-9)
*CARAVAGGIO:
Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1601 (24-18)
Entombment, c. 1603 (24-20)
GENTILESCHI:
Judith & Servant with Head of Holofernes,
c. 1625 (LECTURE)
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ANNIBALE CARRACCI:
(Landscape with) Flight into Egypt, c.1603-04
(24-22)
*VELAZQUEZ:
Las Meninas, 1656 (24-33)
*RUBENS:
Elevation of the Cross, 1610 (24-34)
Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles, 1622-25
(24-36)
*POUSSIN:
Burial of Phocion, 1648 (24-61)
HALS:
Archers of St. Hadrian, c. 1633 (24-41)
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*REMBRANDT:
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632 (24-43)
The Night Watch, 1642 (24-44)
The Return of the Prodigal Son, c. 1665 (24-45)
*VERMEER:
The Letter, c. 1666 (24-51)
*WATTEAU:
Return from Cythera, 1717-19 (24-84)
*FRAGONARD:
The Swing, 1766 (24-86)
VIGEE-LEBRUN:
Self Portrait, 1790 (28-8)
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HOGARTH:
Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode, c. 1745
(28-9)
*GOYA:
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, ETCHING,
c. 1798 (28-37)
The Third of May, 1808, 1814 (28-39)
*DAVID:
Oath of the Horatii, 1784 (28-15)
The Death of Marat, 1793 (28-17)
*INGRES:
Grande Odalisque, 1814 (28-32)
GERICAULT:
The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19 (28-41)
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*DELACROIX:
Death of Sardanapalus, 1826 (28-44)
FRIEDRICH:
Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, 1810 (28-49)
CONSTABLE:
The Haywain, 1821 (28-50)
*TURNER:
The Slave Ship, 1840 (28-51)
*DAUMIER:
Rue Transnonain, 1834 LITHOGRAPH (29-5)
MILLET:
The Gleaners, 1857, (29-3)
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COURBET:
The Stone Breakers, 1849 (29-1)
*MONET:
Impression: Sunrise, 1872 (29-17)
CASSATT:
The Bath, 1892 (29-30)
*SEURAT:
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,
1884-86 (29-38)
*VAN GOGH:
Starry Night, 1889 (29-34)
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