Eloquent Forms: Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture
ARHA 325
Fall 2022
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01
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| Crosslisting:
RL&L 325 |
Early modern Italy was a site of vibrant and wide-ranging innovations in the field of plastic arts. Fueled by fierce competition, financed by extravagant expenditures, and created for a range of religious, commemorative, and decorative functions in both public and private realms, the sculptural medium reached a pinnacle of creative expression, material experimentation, and theoretical engagement in this period. From monumental urban commissions such as fountains to small-scale precious objects sought out by the wealthy collectors, sculptural works profoundly shaped the visual worlds of early modern Italy. This seminar on the making and meaning of sculpture in the Renaissance and Baroque periods will engage students with the works and careers of several key artists of the era, including Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Andrea del Verrocchio, Niccolò dell'Arca, Francesco Laurana, Properzia de'Rossi, Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna, Leone Leoni, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Alessandro Algardi, among others. Seminar readings and discussions will be structured around broad themes such as: the sculptor's studio; the rhetoric of sculptural materials; three-dimensional "sketching"; fragmentation and the "non-finito"; touch, desire, and the nude; representations of force and violence; sculptural animation; antiquarianism and sculpture collecting; tombs and sculptural commemoration; and monsters and monstrosity in garden sculpture. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA-MN)(ARHA)(ARST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Students will read a variety of primary sources, book chapters, and journal articles by scholars such as Amy Bloch, Michael Cole, Kathleen Christian, Maarten Delbeke, C.D. Dickerson, Kelley Helmstutler di Dio, Helen Hills, Megan Holmes, Jeanette Kohl, Irving Lavin, Estelle Lingo, Carolina Mangone, Christina Neilson, Steven Ostrow, Erwin Panofsky, John Paoletti, Nicholas Penny, Adrian Randolph, Leo Steinberg, Victor Stoichita, Richard Tuttle, Daniel Zolli, and others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Discussion and in-class presentations of the readings; short mid-term essay; oral research presentation; 18-20 page research paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
There will be a class trip to NYC museums on a Saturday
This course can be used as the one course in English that counts toward the major in ITST. (For students placing into ITAL221 or higher, three of the nine required courses for the ITST major may be taken in English). Students should consult with their ITST major advisor. |
| Instructor(s): Aksamija,Nadja Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: BOGH113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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