AH 312 - The Renaissance in Italy

(3.00 cr.)

Investigates art's reflection of the rise of humanism, the rebirth of interest in antiquity, and a new concentration on the earthly world in thirteenth- to sixteenth-century Italy. Studies art and patronage in Republican Florence, Papal Rome, and the ducal courts of Northern Italy, from the time of Giotto to the High Renaissance of Leonardo and Michelangelo, and on to Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation. IC/II/IM