ARTH 4451 - [Prints and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe]

(crosslisted) VISST 4451
(HB) (HA-AS)

Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ARTH 6451.

C. Lazzaro.

This seminar introduces students to prints and to the major printmakers of the period, including Marcantonio Raimondi, Dürer, and Rembrandt, while giving them first-hand experience with original prints in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. Weekly readings consider the uses, appreciation, handling, and collecting of prints, as well as the social, cultural, and political issues raised in their subject matter and through their unique visual language. Among these issues are the social hierarchies of class and gender (including witches), moral concerns and religious devotion, the construction and transmission of notions of antiquity and classicism, and the representation of the urban and rural environment.