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A History of European Art

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Overview

Take in the full sweep of European art from Gothic cathedrals to Cubism in this spellbinding and visually-dazzling course taught by an acclaimed art-historian.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Approaches to European Art
  • 02: Carolingian and Ottonian Art
  • 03: Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture
  • 04: Gothic Art in France
  • 05: Gothic Art in Germany and Italy
  • 06: Giotto and the Arena Chapel-Part I
  • 07: Giotto and the Arena Chapel-Part II
  • 08: Duccio and the Maesta
  • 09: Sienese Art in the 14th Century
  • 10: The Black Death and the International Style
  • 11: Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence
  • 12: Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence
  • 13: Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting
  • 14: Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art
  • 15: Northern Renaissance Altarpieces
  • 16: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo
  • 17: Sandro Botticelli
  • 18: Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini
  • 19: High Renaissance Painting in Venice
  • 20: The High Renaissance-Leonardo da Vinci
  • 21: The High Renaissance-Raphael
  • 22: The High Renaissance-Michelangelo
  • 23: Albrecht Durer and German Renaissance Art
  • 24: Riemenschneider and Grunewald
  • 25: Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century
  • 26: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • 27: Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo
  • 28: Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art
  • 29: Caravaggio
  • 30: Italian Baroque Painting in Rome
  • 31: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • 32: Peter Paul Rubens
  • 33: Dutch Painting in the 17th Century
  • 34: Rembrandt
  • 35: Poussin and Claude-The Allure of Rome
  • 36: Baroque Painting in Spain
  • 37: Louis XIV and Versailles
  • 38: French Art in the 18th Century
  • 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism
  • 40: Romanticism in the 19th Century
  • 41: Realism-From Daumier to Courbet
  • 42: Manet and Monet-The Birth of Impressionism
  • 43: Monet and Degas
  • 44: Renoir, Pissarro, and Cezanne
  • 45: Beyond Impressionism-From Seurat to Matisse
  • 46: Cubism and Early Modern Painting
  • 47: Modern Sculpture-Rodin and Brancusi
  • 48: Art between Two Wars-Kandinsky to Picasso

Taught by

William Kloss

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