HIS 4448 ITALIAN ART AND CULTURE
This course introduces students to a broad range of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence. It views Florence as an ideal setting for formal discussions which deal with the fine arts and architecture produced in Italy from the dawn of Renaissance to the Modern period. Discussion will center on how works of art were made, their style, and how they communicate intellectual meaning. The student will analyze the interrelationship between people’s creative achievements and their society. In other words, students must understand a work of art in the social, historical, and artistic context of Florence and Italy. The course, which will have a cultural, historical and art-oriented approach, focuses on the following topics: Late Medieval Florence: The Dawn of the Renaissance, Florence and High Renaissance, Florence and Mannerism, Florence and the Baroque, Romanticism and Neoclassicism, The Macchia Movement and Divisionism, Futurism.