ART 244 History of Art- Renaissance Through Rococo (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A concise chronological history of paintings, sculpture, drawings, printmaking, and architecture form the early Renaissance of the 15th century to the Neoclassical style of the middle mark of the 19th century and related issues.
Course Content
A Art in thirteenth and fourteenth century Italy
B. Artistic innovations in fifteenth century Northern Europe
C. The Early Renaissance in fifteenth century Italy
D. The High Renaissance in fifteenth century Italy
E. The High Renaissance in Italy 1495-1520
F. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in sixteenth century Italy
G. Renaissance and Reformation in sixteenth century Italy
H. Renaissance and Reformation in sixteenth century Northern Europe
I. The Baroque in Italy and Spain
J. The Baroque in the Netherlands
K. The Baroque in France and England
L. The Rococo
Student Outcomes
1. Identify and apply fundamental methods of visual analysis, art criticism, and critical vocabulary.
2. Define the role of basic visual elements and principles of design, architecture, and iconography within a cultural and social context.
3. Identification of basic types of media and styles prevalent in architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, and mixed media.
4. Identify major styles and their characteristics that evolved in the dawn of the15th century Renaissance through the middle mark of the 19th century.
5. Identify and explain the contributions of individuals and the various cross cultural influences. 6. Examine and analyze gender issues and the role of non-western aesthetic traditions.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Essay questions
B. Discussion-Instructor observation of group or individual driven discussion
C. Compare/contrast-compare and contrast essay questions
D. Image identification-image identification questions
E. Museum and gallery visits
F. Artist presentations/both written and verbal presentations
G. Tests and quizzes
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