Undergraduate Course: Narrative in Italian Painting and Sculpture C.1475-C.1520 (HIAR10010)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/fineart |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The importance of narrative subjects was fully recognized at the time: on the one hand because they represented the greatest challenge of all for artists and, on the other, because the works that resulted, potentially had very powerful effects on spectators. In fact the majority of the greatest works of figural art of the period are narratives of one kind or another. The methods for the classification of narratives into different types will be critically examined. But the central emphasis will be on the analysis of contemporary ways of thinking about narrative and exploring how they can be applied to the works of art that have come down to us. In particular the writings of Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci will be subjected to close scrutiny, along with the ancient Greek and Roman texts by Aristotle, Pliny and Horace that they read so attentively. In the light of these writings, the course will examine the narrative strategies and achievements of painters such as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Carpaccio, Gentile Bellini, Titian, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, and sculptors like Niccolo dell'Arca, Benedetto da Maiano, Andrea Sansovino and Gaudenzio Ferrari. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 History of Art courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This is very important period of Italian art, which was to have a decisive effect on the development of the visual arts throughout Europe in the succeeding 3 centuries. Students will gain a detailed acquaintance with some of the most prominent monuments and most famous achievements of that period.
Contemporary texts will form the basis of this course and students will be trained to see the importance of a familiarity with contemporary writings and ways of seeing in order to arrive at a truly historical understanding of the visual arts of the period. There is a great deal of literature on the individual artists and their principal works, but on the whole this scholarly writing does not specifically engage with issues of narrative. In taking this course, students will learn how to make use of information that has been compiled with one purpose in mind and use it to serve another. Their critical intelligence will be honed.
It will taught by a combination of lectures and seminars
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Assessment Information
1 two-hour examination paper(50%) and 1 extended essay (50%)
Visiting Student Variant Assessment
2 x 2000 word essays |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Michael Bury
Tel: (0131 6)50 4113
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Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
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