Meeting Schedule

   This will give you a general idea of what you will be looking at and talking about as fall declines into winter.  A quick glance shows you
that the images are arranged according to their appearance in the scriptures rather than as they develop in time from the early Christian
period to the late middle ages and thereafter.

10 September: Introduction: Who's Who and How to Find Out

17 September: God/The Trinity, and the Angels

24 September: The Creation, Noah and the Exodus

1 October:    Moses, King David, the Prophets

8 October:    Jesus: The Nativity, Ministry and Miracles

15 October:   Jesus: The Passion, the Resurrection, the Second Coming

22 October:   The Acts of the Apostles

29 October:   The Virgin Mary

5 November:   Saints Patristic and Medieval

12 November:  Saints Renascent and Baroque

19 November:  Systems

26 November:  Thanksgiving Recess: River, Woods, Grandmother's House

3 December:   A Field Trip: Iconography in Real Space!

10 December:  Some Thoughts on Images, From John of Damascus to Erwin
              Panofsky
 

Most of the books you will be using are on the reference shelves; a listing will appear shortly.  There are no books for purchase but it is
well that you arm yourselves, for this course or thereafter, with a copy of the Scriptures, including the apocryphal writings, as well as a
general reference, such as A Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall.

 Assignments will include a short but scholarly paper on an object from long ago at the PMA, the iconographic problems it presents and how you
resolve those problems; you will receive a list at the first meeting. There will also be a final exam in December; I'd like to know what you
have learned.