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ARHT2616: High Renaissance Art
2024 unit information
This unit will explore a range of alternative approaches to some of the most famous works of art in the Western tradition, including works by Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian. Topics to be investigated include: problems of definition in High Renaissance and Mannerist art; Rome under Julius II and the creation of an imperial capital; Venetian visual poesie; art and dynastic display in Medicean Florence; civic ritual and public space; eroticism and mythology at princely courts; portraiture and gender.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ARHT2016 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate knowledge of major artists and monuments in sixteenth-century Italy, and of the key themes, issues and critical debates around the study of High Renaissance art
- LO2. demonstrate enhanced skills of visual and spatial analysis of works of art and architecture, including some of the most celebrated works in the history of Western artistic tradition
- LO3. demonstrate skills of critical analysis of scholarly debates, and independent research skills.
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