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210S. Topics in Renaissance Studies. 3 units. C-L: see Italian 210S; also C-L: Medieval
and Renaissance Studies 210S
227S. Roman Painting. 3 units. C-L: see Classical Studies 236S
236S. Topics in Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture. Analysis of an individual
topic. Subject varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Bruzelius.
3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 237S
237S. Greek Painting. 3 units. C-L: see Classical Studies 232S
238S. Greek Sculpture. 3 units. C-L: see Classical Studies 231S
240S. Technology and New Media in the University. 3 units. C-L: see Information
Science and Information Studies 240S; also C-L: Visual Studies 250BS
241. History of Netherlandish Art and Visual Culture in a European Context. A
contextual study of visual culture in the Greater Netherlands and its underlying historical and
socioeconomic assumptions from the late medieval to early modern period, through
immediate contact with urban cultures, such as Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Brussels,
Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp. Includes daily visits to major museums, buildings, and sites;
hands-on research in various collections; discussion sessions with leading scholars in the
field; and a critical introduction to various research strategies. (Taught in the Netherlands.)
Not open to students who have taken Art History 158-159. Course credit contingent upon
completion of Art History 242. Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and
Renaissance Studies 241, Visual Studies 210
242. History of Netherlandish Art and Visual Culture in a European Context. Second
half of Art History 241-242; required for credit for 241. (Taught in the Netherlands.) Not
open to students who have taken Art History 158-159. Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-
L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 242, Visual Studies 211
243S. Topics in Netherlandish and German Art. Specific problems in northern
Renaissance or baroque art such as the Antwerp workshops of the sixteenth century or a
critical introduction to major artists such as Van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer, and Rubens. An
analytical approach to their lives, methods, atelier procedures and followers; drawings and
connoisseurship problems; cultural, literary, social, and economic context; documentary
and scientific research strategies. Subject varies from year to year. Consent of instructor
required. Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 243S
245S. Art and Markets. Cross-disciplinary art history-visual culture-economics seminar.
Analytical and applied historical exploration of cultural production and local art markets,
and their emergence throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Criteria for valuation of
imagery or what makes art as a commodity desirable or fashionable. Visual taste formation,
consumer behavior, and the role of art dealers as cross-cultural negotiants. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance
Studies 245S, Economics 244S, Visual Studies 252AS
247S. Topics in Italian Renaissance Art. Topics in art and/or architecture from c. 1300 to
c. 1600. Subject varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff.
3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 248S
250S. Critical Studies in New Media. 3 units. C-L: see Information Science and
Information Studies 250S; also C-L: Literature 261S, Visual Studies 250AS
255S. Museum Theory and Practice. Museum theory and the operation of museums,
especially art museums, and how the gap between theory and practice is negotiated in the
real world setting. Issues involving collecting practices, exhibition practices, and didactic
techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues. Taught in the Nasher Museum. Instructor:
Rorschach. 3 units.
256S. Inventing the Museum: Collecting and Cultural Discourses of the Nineteenth
Century. 3 units. C-L: see German 286S; also C-L: History 286AS, Romance Studies 286S
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