A History of European Art

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William Kloss, M.A. Independent Art Historian, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution i P rofessor William Kloss is ...

ii Company courses: Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance, A History of European Art, Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt, an ...

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Table of Contents LECTURE LECTURE GUIDES Approaches to European Art ........................................................... ...

Table of Contents vii SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Timeline ........................................................................... ...

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A History of European Art Scope: I n this course, we’ll survey the great monuments of European painting, sculpture, and architec ...

Scope the massive cathedrals and exquisite sculpture of the French Gothic style. Despite its former reputation, this was a perio ...

Finally, in Lectures Thirty-Nine through Forty-Eight, we’ll examine the beginnings of modern European art with the Neoclassical ...

Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art Approaches to European Art .............................................................. ...

Although we have only recently left the 20th century and have not yet come to terms with its art; however, our quick dip into th ...

Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art The joyous procession of Bacchus and his caravan of revelers was linked to ancient fertili ...

First, we see St. Matthew (c. 816–835 A.D.) by an unknown Carolingian artist. St. Matthew is seated, writing his Gospel. Where i ...

Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art of the angel and his elegant hand. But the angel, too, is solidly physical and literally d ...

In each painting, the brilliant red robe of St. John intensi¿ es the emotion, although in van der Weyden’s painting, the saint a ...

Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art even Delacroix, who was anything but politically engaged, and through his genius, Delacroi ...