Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Artistic culture of Western and Central Europe c. 1350-1600.  Topics include the development of “realism” in portraiture and landscape, prints and print culture, urbanism, science and the exotic, anti-religious artworks, religious attacks on art, contacts with Renaissance Italy. Offered irregularly.

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