TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE* Week 1: Class introductions; discussion of the course and the syllabus; Introduction to the Renaissance and a discussion of humanism and the arts in early Renaissance Italy. Read Chapter 1 and take good notes, paying attention to the names and terms on the study guide. Question: Why is Florence the of “cradle” the Renaissance? Week 2: What is this new vision of a human being envisioned by the humanist writers? How is the humanist world-view reflected in the art of the time? Continue Chapter 1 and finish the study guide. Week 3: The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice. Read Chapter 2 and take good notes based upon the study guide. What role did the papacy play in the arts? Week 4: Art of the High Renaissance: The Age of Genius. Clips from and an analysis The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Neo-Platonism of Question: How does our study of Pico della Mirandola Michelangelo’s work. illuminate our appreciation of the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? The women humanists of the Renaissance. Week 5: Test 1. Begin The Renaissance in the North and the Reformation. Read Chapter 3, pages 87, 91, 94, 96-97, and do take chapter notes. Compare the artistic expressions in the North with those in Italy. Week 6: The Protestant Reformation. Read Chapter 4 and take chapter notes. We will discuss the printing press, the new emphasis on literacy, and the results of Protestant iconoclasm. Week 7: European expansion and Conquest and civilizations beyond Christian Europe, including the Maya, Aztecs, Muslim Spain, and Timbuktu. Question: What was the fate of these civilizations? What may we learn by studying these cultures? Film clips: The Blood of Kings, The Aztecs, The Libraries of Timbuktu. Read Chapter 5 and complete chapter notes. Week 8: England in the Tudor Age. Read Chapter 6 and write chapter notes. Week 9: Catch-up week and Test 2. Read Chapter 7 and write chapter notes. Week 10: The Catholic Reformation and Mannerism. Women artists, the Inquisition, and its impact. Read Chapter 8 and write Chapter notes. Week 11: The Baroque in Italy. Question: How did the Reformation impact the arts and what was the Catholic response to Protestant iconoclasm? Film: Splendors of the Vatican. Read chapter 8 and complete
TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE* Week 1: Class introductions; discussion of the course and the syllabus; Introduction to the Renaissance and a discussion of humanism and the arts in early Renaissance Italy. Read Chapter 1 and take good notes, paying attention to the names and terms on the study guide. Question: Why is Florence the “cradle” of the Renaissance? Week 2: What is this new vision of a human being envisioned by the humanist writers? How is the humanist world-view reflected in the art of the time? Continue Chapter 1 and finish the study guide. Week 3: The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice. Read Chapter 2 and take good notes based upon the study guide. What role did the papacy play in the arts? Week 4: Art of the High Renaissance: The Age of Genius. Clips from The Agony and the Ecstasy and an analysis of the Neo-Platonism of Michelangelo’s work. Question: How does our study of Pico della Mirandola illuminate our appreciation of the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? The women humanists of the Renaissance. Week 5: Test 1. Begin The Renaissance in the North and the Reformation. Read Chapter 3, pages 87, 91, 94, 96-97, and do take chapter notes. Compare the artistic expressions in the North with those in Italy. Week 6: The Protestant Reformation. Read Chapter 4 and take chapter notes. We will discuss the printing press, the new emphasis on literacy, and the results of Protestant iconoclasm. Week 7: European expansion and Conquest and civilizations beyond Christian Europe, including the Maya, Aztecs, Muslim Spain, and Timbuktu. Question: What was the fate of these civilizations? What may we learn by studying these cultures? Film clips: The Blood of Kings, The Aztecs, The Libraries of Timbuktu. Read Chapter 5 and complete chapter notes. Week 8: England in the Tudor Age. Read Chapter 6 and write chapter notes. Week 9: Catch-up week and Test 2. Read Chapter 7 and write chapter notes. Week 10: The Catholic Reformation and Mannerism. Women artists, the Inquisition, and its impact. Read Chapter 8 and write Chapter notes. Week 11: The Baroque in Italy. Question: How did the Reformation impact the arts and what was the Catholic response to Protestant iconoclasm? Film: Splendors of the Vatican. Read chapter 8 and complete