Fall 2018 - HUM 211 D100
Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance (3)
Class Number: 7587
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Fri, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Emily O'Brien
eobrien@sfu.ca
1 778 782-3150
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Prerequisites:
30 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An interdisciplinary introduction to the art and literature of the Italian Renaissance (c. 1300-c. 1500). Studies the major developments in Renaissance Italian painting, sculpture and architecture alongside some of the most influential texts of the period. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to the art and literature of the Italian Renaissance (c. 1300 – c. 1550). From Giotto’s revolutionary frescoes in Padua to Michelangelo’s in the Sistine Chapel, we will study the central developments in Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture. At the same time, we will explore the literary culture that grew alongside this artistic flowering, and we will read some of its most important and influential texts. In the short stories of Giovanni Boccaccio and the poetry of Michelangelo, we will also consider how Renaissance art and literature intertwined. We will explore civic and court cultures, and secular and religious worlds; and we will tour the Italian peninsula, from Naples in the south to Venice and Milan in the north. Throughout the course, we will work together to understand how Renaissance Italian art and literature grew out of and responded to their larger historical context. To this end, we will study our sources, both textual and visual, in conversation with the important political, religious, social, economic and intellectual developments of the age.
Grading
- Class participation 20%
- Essay 20%
- Response paper 10%
- Midterm 25%
- Final exam 25%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, 2nd edition, trans. G.H. McWilliam (Penguin Classics, 2003)
ISBN: 9780140449303
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