Lecture Schedule/Reading Assignments

I. THE ANCIENT WORLD:   GOD, NATION, MAN

Introduction: Syllabus Review/Why Look at Art?
Ancient Near East
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture
Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
Ancient Roman Art and Architecture
Early Christian and Byzantine Art

EXAM I

II.  THE MIDDLE AGES TO BAROQUE:  NATION, GOD, MAN
Early Middle Ages
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Precursors to the Renaissance
Early Renaissance Art
High Renaissance in Italy
Northern Renaissance
Baroque Style

EXAM II

III.  ROCOCO TO MODERNISM:  MAN, NATION, GOD

Rococo
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
20th-century Modernism: The Crisis of Representation
20th-century Modernism: Toward Abstraction
20th-century Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art

FINAL EXAM