ARTH 743
Problems in Italian Trecento
Instructor: Professor Paul Watson
M 2-4
113 Jaffe
Course Description   This seminar focuses upon building the architecture of ritual in  medieval Italy, from roughly the year 1000 to the early fourteenth century.  We shall be considering objects, artifacts, implements.  These include baldachins, choir screens, baptismal fonts, pulpits, candelabra, Exultet Rolls, and altarpieces.  All functioned as objects of, enclosures for,  and the visual highlighting of, the rituals of the Roman Church.  Our purpose is to rediscover the life those beautiful objects once enjoyed so
many centuries ago.