ARTH 544
History Painting Spring 2010
Division I
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This course is about the genre known as History Painting, which since the Renaissance, and particularly after the founding of the French Academy of Painting and Sculpture, came to be perceived as the most complex and noblest genre of painting. The course asks about how and why history painting emerged as a category, what its rules were, and why they mattered. It also explores history painting in its historical development, with a particular focus on the moment (roughly) between 1650-1850 when the category bore the most weight and significance, and will not shy away from moments (like the period of the French Revolution) when the relationship between history painting as istoria and the historical process was most dynamic and problematic. It will explore the work of painters from Raphael to Poussin and Rubens to David, West, Hogarth, Reynolds, Ingres, and Delacroix.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: assessment will be on the basis of oral presentation (normally focused on an individual or group of paintings) and one research paper (20-25 pages)
Extra Info: additional requirements: students will be expected to lead discussions of readings and to respond to the presentations of others in the class
Enrollment Preferences: Graduate Program students and then to senior Art History majors
Distributions: Division I

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