ARHA323 - Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance

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Academic Year 2001/2002

Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance
ARHA 323 FA

This course will examine portraiture in Italian painting and sculpture, c. 1420 - 1570. It will focus on how portraiture supported, shaped and challenged various social, political and cultural structures, particularly those of artist, patron and beholder. The course will concentrate on notions of subjectivity and on strategies of self-fashioning within private, corporate, and religious contexts. Other art historical methodologies will include those related to reception theory, social history, psychoanalytic theory, formal analysis, and identity politics. Students should therefore be prepared for substantial readings in a range of fields.

MAJOR READINGS

Richard Brilliant, PORTRAITURE (1991).
Harry Berger, Jr., FICTIONS OF THE POSE: REMBRANDT AGAINST THE RENAISSANCE (2000).
Lorne Campbell, RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS: EUROPEAN PORTRAIT PAINTING IN THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES (1990).
Jodi Cranston, THE POETICS OF PORTRAITURE IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (2000).
Guy Little and Stephen Orgel, editors, PATRONAGE IN THE RENAISSANCE (1981).
John Pope-Hennessy, THE PORTRAIT IN THE RENAISSANCE (1966).
Alois Riegl, "Das hollandische Gruppenportrat" (1902) (THE GROUP PORTRAITURE OF HOLLAND, trans. Evelyn M. Kain, 1999).
Mary Rogers, editor, FAISHIONING IDENTITIES IN RENAISSANCE ART (2000).
John Shearman, ONLY CONNECT...ART AND THE SPECTATOR IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANC E (1992).
Joanna Woods-Marsden, RENAISSANCE SELF-PORTRAITURE: THE VISUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY AND THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE ARTIST (1998).

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Mid-term paper, oral presentations, final research paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Although there are no prerequisites, ARHA101 and/or ARHA221 are recommended.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Drogin,David J.

Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: DAC100

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 5

SR. non-major: 3 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 3 FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002