IART108 — Intro to Renaissance Art
Florence, "the cradle of the Renaissance" is the setting for this introduction to the history of Renaissance art. The course is intended to give the beginning student a general overview of the main facts, causes and conditions that led artists from Giotto in the fourteenth century to Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi and Botticelli in the fifteenth century, up to Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael in the sixteeth century, to create one of the most fascinating periods in art history. In Italy these years witnessed an extraordinary coming together of artistic talent, a passionate interest in the antique past, civic pride and an optomistic belief in "man as the measure of all things." This course examines the most important monuments from the Renaissance.