January 12 Introduction; Early Italian Renaissance Reading: Honour & Fleming: Introduction, xiii - xxxii; 388-396; 402-405

" 19 Italian Renaissance II, Fifteenth & early Sixteenth centuries in Northern Europe Reading: H & F: 396-401; 405-421; 427-439

" 26 High Renaissance in Florence, Rome, and Venice Reading: H & F: 421-426, 439-465

February 2nd: Late Renaissance and "Mannerism" Reading: H & F: 466-475

" 9th: The Baroque in Italy Reading: H & F: 530-551

" 16th: The Dissemination of the Italian Baroque in Flanders and Spain; Art in the Dutch Republic Reading: H & F: 535-541(review); 551-566

" 23th: Baroque Adaptations in England, France and the German-speaking States; the Rococo Reading: H & F: 566-585

March 2nd: MID-TERM EXAMINATION; Eighteenth-Century Romantic Classicism Reading: H & F: 585-595

" 9th: SPRING BREAK

" 16th Nineteenth-century Romanticism and Realism Reading: H & F: 598-632

March 23th: American Developments and Paris as Great Center; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and the impact of Asian Art Reading: H & F: 632-642; 656-678

" 30th: Art Nouveau, New Technology, and American Architecture in the latter Nineteenth Century; "Isms," part 1 - Cezanne and Fauvism Reading: H & F: 679-688; 716-724

April 6th "Isms," part II - Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism; De Stijl and Frank Lloyd Wright Reading: H & F: 724-744

" 13th Art and Architecture between the World Wars Reading: H & F: 745-774

" 20th Art since 1945, from New Frontiers to Recent Movements Reading: H & F: 775-827

May 4th: FINAL EXAM (Tentative)

PLEASE NOTE: IN ADDITION TO THE SCHEDULED CLASS MEETINGS, THERE WILL BE A WEEKEND EXCURSION TO AREA COLLECTIONS, TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED

TEXT BOOK - ON RESERVE IN FISHER LIBRARY - available at the PENN BOOK CENTER, 34th Street

Honour, Hugh and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1) PARTICIPATION. Class sessions will be a combination of lecture and discussion. Your participation in class discussion is a component of your grade. Completion of assigned readings by class time is essential to your class participation.

2) TESTS. There will be a brief, five-minute quiz at the beginning of class each week, commencing in the third week of classes, to ensure that you are absorbing the material at the most productive rate. The quizzes will consist of brief slide identifications. The mid-term and final will each include identifications and slide comparisons. In addition, the final will include a thematic essay section.

Absence from the mid-term or final examination will be accepted only by virtue of a medical excuse from Student Health or by EXTREMELY extraordinary circumstances which must be attested to by a note from your academic advisor in your School Office.

3) WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS. There will be two papers: one short initial exercise in visual analysis due the third week of class, and a longer paper due at the end of the course. Details on both assignments will be distributed separately.

Grading Scheme: Quizzes: 10%; Mid-term exam: 25%; Final exam: 35%; long paper 20%; class participation and formal analysis paper: 10%.