Faculty Profile

Letha Ch’ien
Lecturer

Ph.D., University of California, BerkeleyB.A., San Jose State University

Fields of interest: Early Modern Italy, Identity, Facture

Courses:

AHI 190/290 Seminar, Fall Quarter 2016

AHI 1B, Medieval and Renaissance Art, Winter Quarter 2017

AHI 176C, Art of the Middle Ages: Gothic, Spring Quarter 2017

AHI 178C, High and Late Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture, Spring Quarter 2017

Room 154, Everson Hall
lchien[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
Course Description

AHI 190B/250: Seminar in Medieval Art
Fall 2016: Relics

Letha Ch'ien

Explores the central role of relics in cultural practice and  identity formation in medieval Europe; examines relics as instruments of worship, as agents of identity, as objects of theft and destruction, and as pilgrimage destinations. 

Course Description

AHI 179B: Baroque Art

Letha Ch'ien

Lecture–3 hours; term paper.  Seventeenth-century painting, sculpture and graphic arts, including such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez in their political and social context.

GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt| AH, VL, WE.