HA&A 0050: Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture

Course Information

Goals

Students will learn the basic skills of stylistic and iconographical analysis, both in terms of isolating the individual components of style or iconography and in terms of defining a style as a whole (construction and deconstruction, part:whole, whole:part). They will learn how to relate these concepts to the stylistic periods of the Middle Ages and develope a firm grasp of what constitutes stylistic development in all the media over the entire period of c.250-1450 AD. They will learn how to express their understanding in writing, using sophisticated and accurate technical terminology.

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