3000 Years of European Arts and Architecture: 1500 - Today

Pre-requisites for enrolment

None.

Content of Course

1. 1500-1600, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Pontormo, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Palladio, Bramante.

2. 1600-1700, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez, La Tour, Poussin, Le Brun, Le Nôtre, Bernini, Borromini, Vauban, Wren.

3. 1700-1800, Canaletto, Bellotto, Piranesi, Panini, Tiepolo, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Hogarth, Gainsborough, David, Fisher von Erlach, Vanvitelli.

4. 1800-1900, Goya, Géricault, Ingres, Delacroix, Friedrich, Courbet, Pugin, Monet, Rodin, Repin, Whistler, MacIntosh, Horta.

5. 1900-now, Picasso, Duchamp, Moore, Hepworth, Albers, Orlan, Richard Long, Abramovic, Tracey Emin, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Rogers, Botta.

Teaching method(s)

The course will be taught via lectures combined with class discussion. Students will be introduced to a variety of visual sources and will be guided in close visual analysis and in analysis of sources across a range of times, places and styles.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Conduct a methodical analysis of artworks;

• Recognise and describe the work of various European styles and creators;

• Discuss broad trends in the history of European arts between 1500 and the present day.

Sources

Core Readings

Please discuss these with your tutor if you are considering purchasing a book:

• Honour, H. & Fleming, J., 2009. A World History of Art. Rev. 7th., London: Laurence King.

• Scott, H. M, 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750. Volume 1, Peoples and Place, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Scott, H.M., 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750. Volume 2, Cultures and Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Broadberry, S. & O'Rourke, K.H., 2010. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Volume 1, 1700–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Broadberry, S., O'Rourke, K.H. & Broadberry, S. N, 2010. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Volume 2, 1870 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Williams, R., 2009. Art Theory: An Historical Introduction. 2nd edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

• Edwards, S. ed., 1999. Art and its Histories: A Reader. London: Open University/Yale University Press.

• Stangos, N. ed., 1988. Concepts of Modern Art. London: Thames and Hudson.

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk or by phone 0131 650 4400.

Student support

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