Course Title: 01:082:492 Capstone in Art History
Required of art history majors. Non-majors may take this class, if space allows.
SPECIAL PERMISSION REQUIRED
Mode of Instruction: Seminar
Course Prerequisites and Corequisites: 01:082:105,106 and permission of instructor.
Course Description:
Advanced study in selected area of art history.
Spring 2025 - Painting in France before Modernism
This seminar looks at artistic production in the realms of the French kings from the fourteenth through the early sixteenth century. Field trips to the Met, the Morgan Library, and to an art gallery specializing in manuscripts, will provide hands on experience with painting of the time. We will learn how painting fits squarely in medieval art history in terms of its materials, workshop practices, and subject matter but it also incorporates what are considered renaissance contributions to art history: the emergence of individual named artists, panel painting as a medium, and secular themes. Our focus will be on painting on various supports: panel, stained glass, cloth, paper, and parchment. We will address the engagement of these paintings with other artistic forms, including, architecture, sculpture, textiles, theater, and literature and the interaction between artisans working with a range of materials and techniques. Our goal will be to take into account the intermediality of fifteenth-century French painting. In so doing we will craft a new art history of this period, one which redefines what painting meant at the time.
Instructor: Laura Weigert
Disclaimer: These course descriptions/synopses pages have been provided as samples and the information should not be considered accurate or current. For actual course information, refer to the course site hosted by a Rutgers Learning Management System (Sakai, Canvas, etc.) as of first day of class.
