ARTH 6300 - Romanesque and Early Gothic Art and Architecture: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-1150 A.D.

(crosslisted) MEDVL 6300, NES 6759

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ARTH 3300/MEDVL 3300/NES 3759.

C. Robinson.

This course will address both “Romanesque” and the earliest manifestations of “Gothic” art and architecture as Western Mediterranean phenomena, rather than northern European ones. We will adopt a comparative approach which includes Islamic and, to a lesser extent, Byzantine cultures and material. In addition to the more usual art historical skills, such as visual and stylistic analysis and “compare-and-contrast,” we will use selected primary sources and historical analysis to attempt to understand the objects and monuments we address.