1. Introduction to the Course (August 29)

Introducing the dynamics of this course along with basic art terms and formal analysis. We will discuss the main goals of the course as well as the problems of periodization, the significance and biases of Western canon, and the meaning and relevance of “global” art history.

2. Naturalism and the Rebirth of Classical Culture: Fifteenth Century Art in Italy (September 5)

• What was the Renaissance? Where and when do we begin? What does “modern” mean?

4. High Renaissance: Sixteenth Century Art in Italy (September 12)

5. Renaissance in the North: Sixteenth Century Art in and Northern Europe the Iberian Peninsula (September 19)

6. Colonialism and Art in the Americas, 15^th-18^th c. (September 26 and October 3)

7. Baroque: Seventeenth Century Art in Italy, Spain, and Northern Europe (October 17)

9. Islamic Art, the Ottoman Empire, and the Cultural Exchanges between Europe and the Middle East (15^th-18^th c.) (October 24)

• Midterm Exam due on Blackboard by 11:59PM on October 24 (25% of your final grade)

10. Rococo in France and Central Europe, 1700s to 1789 (October 31)

11. Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Early Nineteenth Century Art in Europe (November 7)

12: The Congress of Vienna and Art in Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (November 14)

13. African Art, European Invasion, and “Primitivism” in the Early 1900s (November 21)

• Research Assignment due on Blackboard by 11:59PM on November 21 (20% of your final grade)

14. Modernism in Europe and the United States, 1900-1939 (November 28)

15. Final Exam Review (December 5)

• Final Exam due on Blackboard by 11:59PM on December 19 (25% of your final grade)