Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
MEDVLSTD 107
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Course Information
Description
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between the impulse to originality and the authority of classical models in the search for new art forms. Emphasis on representative works considered in their totality (architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts) as experiential wholes; and on the plurality of geographical and cultural contexts (Italy, Germany, France, and Spain).
Course Notes
Meets concurrently with Graduate School of Design Hist 4358. This course can be used to fulfill the Arts distribution requirement for the undergraduate secondary field in Medieval Studies, and can be counted towards the requirements for the graduate secondary field in Medieval Studies.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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