The Old Renaissance lives here.
This is the class site for the 'Western Traditions' class. It's proper name is Giotto in reference to the first artist of the Renaissance. Mr Hames taught this course for many years as an introduction to art history and a cross disciplinary approach to European history from 1300-1700. The course has been revamped to include a few rotations on ancient art so you will have a clue what the Renaissance masters were imitating/reshaping/referencing. We will also spend a rotation on Islamic Spain and Ottoman art and note their influence in the amalgamation of the Romanesque. Peruse the syllabus in the section below and write me if you have any questions. This is an exellent class. If you want to learn the necessary, registration is imperative!!
Giotto
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts; the book of their deeds,the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last.
- John Ruskin
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Rotation I – The Formation of the Polis and the Human FormThe Bronze Age Aegean: Minoa, Cycladic, Helladic and Anatolian - Knossos, Thera, Mycenae, Troy; evolution of the Peripteros; Temple Typology; Dodona, Olympia, Delphi, Nemea; Kouroi and Kourai from the Archaic to the Hellenistic; Attic Stelai
Rotation II – Pericles' Cosmos to Alexander; Heroes and HellenismGeography of Athens and Attica; Marathon, Thetes and radical Democracy; Agora; Acropolis; Conquering the World; Town Planning, Olynthos and Stymphalos; Pergamum and Ionia; Sculpture in the Round
Rotation III – Etruria and Magna Graecia and Rome to the 2nd centuryGreek colonies; Ceveteri, Perugia, Volterra, Veii; Mars of Todi, Chimera, the Orator, bucchero; Geography of Lazio and Rome; Hills; Kings; Palatine huts; the Republican Forum; Temples – Fortuna Virilis, Jupiter Capitolinus; The Capitoline Triad and the Dioscuri
Rotation IV – Pompeii to NeroHouse Plans; Mau and Painting Styles; Silver Wedding, Faun, Vetti and Villa of the Mysteries; Herculaneum and Getty; Fora and Forum reorientation; Ara Pacis; Prima Porta; Livia; Theatre of Marcellus, Mars Ultor; Portland Vase; Tiberius - Gema Augustea, Suovetaurilia; Claudius the god
Rotation V – Flavians to SplitArch of Titus; Coliseum; Domitian's Palatine; Trajan – Ulpia, Column, Timgad, Benevento; Hadrian – Rome, Tivoli, Ostia, Athens; Antoninus and Faustina; Aurelius; Fayum; Arch of Septimus; Caracalla; Soldier Catalogue – Valerian, Philip the Arab, Gallienus and that lot; Tetrarchy suits Porphyry; Piazza Armerina; Palace Complex at Split
Rotation VI – Constantine to CharlemagneBasilica; Milvan Bridge; Arch; Santa Constanza; St Peter's; Trier; Sarcophagoi; The City; Nika and Hagia Sophia; Belisarius and Ravenna; Migration Art; Lombardy; Orkney, Sutton Hoo, Islay, Book of Kells; Charles Martel and Tours; Visigothic Spain – Toledo, Burgos, Leon and Asturias; Aachen; Cross of Lothar; Crucifix for Gerro of Cologne
Rotation VII – Byzantine Art – Islamic Spain and Istanbul – RomanesqueMacedonian and Palaiologian; Iconoclasts and Crusades; Moria; Edirne, Bursa, Córdoba, Granada, Constantinople; St Mark's to Morosini; Sicily; Jerusalem Pilgrimages and the Crusades; St Foy at Conques, St. Iago, Compostella; Canterbury; St. Foy, Cluny, Moissac, Speyer, St Ambrogio, Pisa; Abelard; Vezelay; St Lazare - Gislebertus hoc fecit
Rotation VIII – Gothic – Giotto; the Tuscan sonAbbot Suger and St Denys; Gothic Vaulting; Chartres, Royal Portal; Amiens; Reims, Gothic Sway; Paris, Notre Dame and St Chapelle; Durham and York Minster; Salisbury; Catalunya; Giotto; Petrarch; Humanism; St. Francis; Vasari; Pisano; Lorenzetti; Orcagna; Cimabue; Simone; Duccio
Rotation IX – Italian RenaissanceFra Angelico, Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Veneziano, Ghiberti, Lippi, Donatello, Pollaiuola, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Piero della Francesca, Bellini; The Papacy since Avignon; Michelangelo's Rome, Reorientation of the Capitoline, Sistine Chapel, Tomb of Julius; Florentine works; The Papal Apartments; Raphael, man of his time; Leonardo, man of all time
Rotation X – Reformation and Counter Reformation; Early Modern EuropeLuther; Calvin and Zwingli; The Catholic Kings; Carlos V and Philip II; Tudor England; Holbein; Durer; Erasmus of Rotterdam and the North; Jesuits; Borromini; Bernini; Neumann; Vignola; Tiepolo; Titian; Tintoretto; Vasari; Palladio's classicism and El Greco's rejection of tradition
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts; the book of their deeds,the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last.
- John Ruskin
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Rotation I – The Formation of the Polis and the Human FormThe Bronze Age Aegean: Minoa, Cycladic, Helladic and Anatolian - Knossos, Thera, Mycenae, Troy; evolution of the Peripteros; Temple Typology; Dodona, Olympia, Delphi, Nemea; Kouroi and Kourai from the Archaic to the Hellenistic; Attic Stelai
Rotation II – Pericles' Cosmos to Alexander; Heroes and HellenismGeography of Athens and Attica; Marathon, Thetes and radical Democracy; Agora; Acropolis; Conquering the World; Town Planning, Olynthos and Stymphalos; Pergamum and Ionia; Sculpture in the Round
Rotation III – Etruria and Magna Graecia and Rome to the 2nd centuryGreek colonies; Ceveteri, Perugia, Volterra, Veii; Mars of Todi, Chimera, the Orator, bucchero; Geography of Lazio and Rome; Hills; Kings; Palatine huts; the Republican Forum; Temples – Fortuna Virilis, Jupiter Capitolinus; The Capitoline Triad and the Dioscuri
Rotation IV – Pompeii to NeroHouse Plans; Mau and Painting Styles; Silver Wedding, Faun, Vetti and Villa of the Mysteries; Herculaneum and Getty; Fora and Forum reorientation; Ara Pacis; Prima Porta; Livia; Theatre of Marcellus, Mars Ultor; Portland Vase; Tiberius - Gema Augustea, Suovetaurilia; Claudius the god
Rotation V – Flavians to SplitArch of Titus; Coliseum; Domitian's Palatine; Trajan – Ulpia, Column, Timgad, Benevento; Hadrian – Rome, Tivoli, Ostia, Athens; Antoninus and Faustina; Aurelius; Fayum; Arch of Septimus; Caracalla; Soldier Catalogue – Valerian, Philip the Arab, Gallienus and that lot; Tetrarchy suits Porphyry; Piazza Armerina; Palace Complex at Split
Rotation VI – Constantine to CharlemagneBasilica; Milvan Bridge; Arch; Santa Constanza; St Peter's; Trier; Sarcophagoi; The City; Nika and Hagia Sophia; Belisarius and Ravenna; Migration Art; Lombardy; Orkney, Sutton Hoo, Islay, Book of Kells; Charles Martel and Tours; Visigothic Spain – Toledo, Burgos, Leon and Asturias; Aachen; Cross of Lothar; Crucifix for Gerro of Cologne
Rotation VII – Byzantine Art – Islamic Spain and Istanbul – RomanesqueMacedonian and Palaiologian; Iconoclasts and Crusades; Moria; Edirne, Bursa, Córdoba, Granada, Constantinople; St Mark's to Morosini; Sicily; Jerusalem Pilgrimages and the Crusades; St Foy at Conques, St. Iago, Compostella; Canterbury; St. Foy, Cluny, Moissac, Speyer, St Ambrogio, Pisa; Abelard; Vezelay; St Lazare - Gislebertus hoc fecit
Rotation VIII – Gothic – Giotto; the Tuscan sonAbbot Suger and St Denys; Gothic Vaulting; Chartres, Royal Portal; Amiens; Reims, Gothic Sway; Paris, Notre Dame and St Chapelle; Durham and York Minster; Salisbury; Catalunya; Giotto; Petrarch; Humanism; St. Francis; Vasari; Pisano; Lorenzetti; Orcagna; Cimabue; Simone; Duccio
Rotation IX – Italian RenaissanceFra Angelico, Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Veneziano, Ghiberti, Lippi, Donatello, Pollaiuola, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Piero della Francesca, Bellini; The Papacy since Avignon; Michelangelo's Rome, Reorientation of the Capitoline, Sistine Chapel, Tomb of Julius; Florentine works; The Papal Apartments; Raphael, man of his time; Leonardo, man of all time
Rotation X – Reformation and Counter Reformation; Early Modern EuropeLuther; Calvin and Zwingli; The Catholic Kings; Carlos V and Philip II; Tudor England; Holbein; Durer; Erasmus of Rotterdam and the North; Jesuits; Borromini; Bernini; Neumann; Vignola; Tiepolo; Titian; Tintoretto; Vasari; Palladio's classicism and El Greco's rejection of tradition