Courses

• CAS AH 328: Modern Japanese Architecture
  An introduction to the major architects, buildings, theories, and critical issues of Japanese architecture from 1850 to the present. Focus on the development of new forms in response to interchanges with the West, new technologies, earthquakes, nationalism, international wars, and colonialism.
• CAS AH 331: Arts of Archaic Greece
  Examines a critical formative stage in Greek art. Analyzes the rise of identifiable artists, the relationship of art to epic, the evolution of the architectural orders, and the formation of Greek style in monumental stone sculpture.
• CAS AH 345: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
  Art and architecture of medieval Europe from the Early Christian Catacombs to the great Gothic cathedrals. Topics include piety, the cult of relics, the Virgin, monasticism, and secular monuments such as medieval European castles and the Bayeux Tapestry.
• CAS AH 349: Between the Lily and the Lion: Art in Renaissance Padua
  Padua as a case study for Renaissance art: between two giants (Florence, Venice) and rooted in ancient Roman origins. Critical analysis of works of the Padua and Veneto region, fourteenth--sixteenth centuries; reflections in contemporary history and culture. Visits to museums, churches in Padua.
• CAS AH 352: Venetian Renaissance Art
  A study of art and architecture in Renaissance Venice with focus on the "Myth of Venice," Byzantine heritage, introduction of the oil medium, Scuole, and the work of the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palladio, Veronese, and Tintoretto.
• CAS AH 354: Venetian Renaissance Art and Architecture
  
• CAS AH 356: French Art and Architecture
  Varying issues and periods of French art and architecture.
• CAS AH 359: Northern Renaissance Painting
  The painting in countries north of the Alps (Netherlands, Flanders, Burgundy, France, Germany) from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, studied in its historic, cultural, environmental, and artistic contexts. Architecture, sculpture, and graphics are included.
• CAS AH 361: Southern Baroque Art
  Explores transformations in painting, sculpture, and architecture of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy, Spain, and France. Major figures such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, and Velázquez are examined from a variety of perspectives.
• CAS AH 364: Art and Architecture in Madrid, 1561 - Today
  Survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting in Madrid, and how these fit within the broader frame of European styles and historical context, 1561 to the present. Key theories in art history are introduced, giving students a broader perspective on critical approaches to art.
• CAS AH 365: Baroque Arts in Northern Europe
  An exploration of the rich artistic tradition of the northern and southern Netherlands from the late sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Coordinated in part with the MFA exhibition, "Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer."
• CAS AH 367: Material Culture
  Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Topic for Fall 2013: American Folk Art. Course will explore the range of objects, created from the seventeenth century to the present, known as American Folk Art. Also offered as CAS AM 367.
• CAS AH 368: The Grand Tour
  The culminating educational experience for the elite of Enlightenment Europe took the form of an extended trip to Italy, "The Grand Tour." This course recreates the itinerary of the Tour and analyzes its impact on art, architecture, collecting, and connoisseurship.
• CAS AH 374: Australian Art and Architecture
  Examines the complexity of Australian artistic life and cultural tradition over the past two centuries. Considers both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal art, with particular focus on different media and art forms.
• CAS AH 376: Housing America
  What do dwellings say about the diversity of American experience? For over four centuries and across a continent, wealth and poverty, family and community, taste and technology have all shaped the meaning of home. Illustrated lecturers supplemented by field trips. Also offered as CAS AM 376.
• CAS AH 377: American Furniture and Allied Arts, 1630-1830
  Survey of furniture and related arts-painting, architecture, and silver-with an emphasis on aesthetics and quality, sources, style changes, regional differences, materials, and construction.
• CAS AH 379: American Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
  Explores the visual arts of painting, sculpture, photography, and popular media, through their interplay with persistent political and social questions that defined nineteenth-century America and continue to shape life in the twenty-first century. Themes include heroes, citizenship, war, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, consumerism.
• CAS AH 380: Romanticism in Europe
  In-depth exploration of art in the age of revolution, nationalism, colonial expansion, and religious revival. Development of new attitudes toward history, nature, and the imagination in the work of Friedrich, Goya, Delacroix, Gericault, Ingres, Turner, Constable, Blake, and others.
• CAS AH 381: London Architecture and Urbanism
  Explores the evolution of urban form in London from the walled town of the Middle Ages to the modern city, discussing town planning and architecture in relation to urban, economic, and cultural history, and to the other arts.
• CAS AH 382: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
  Survey of European and American architecture from 1750 to 1910. Explores issues in architecture, landscape architecture and city planning, and examines style, technology, and architectural theory.

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