ARTH 3272 - Northern Renaissance Art (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course will address the visual arts of northern Europe during the Renaissance, the 14th through the 16th century. The class will primarily cover the painting, printmaking, and sculpture of Germany, Flanders, France, and the Netherlands. The class will begin by establishing the artistic traditions of the medieval era and exhibit how the early Northern Renaissance artists both operated within these traditions and made marked innovations to the visual vocabulary, and will conclude with the16th-century North’s responses to the Protestant Reformation and to the influence of works of the Italian Renaissance. Students will engage in a variety of activities both in and out of the classroom including lecture, discussion, research, and/or writing exercises.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” in ARTH 2532 or permission of instructor.