ARTH 215 Humanity and Divinity in Renaissance Art, 1500-1600 Units: 3.00
By examining the variety and complexity of Renaissance art, from Michelangelo's muscular giants to Bosch's perversely playful monsters, this course explores how Renaissance artists and their patrons understood what it means to be human and how they imagined in new ways God, Heaven, Hell, and angels (genderless and bodiless beings). By discussing both such famous works as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and such little-known ones as prints of witches, we will study ideals of gender, constructions of power, and depictions of marginalized peoples.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above) or permission of the Department.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and discuss major works of Renaissance art from ca.1500 onwards.
- Analyze a work of art and make an original argument in correct and clear prose using written primary sources.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how specific works of art functioned as a part of the lives of the men and women who commissioned, created, and viewed them.