Professors J. M. Jordan, J. Kenseth, A. W. B. Randolph; Associate Professors A. Cohen, K. A. Corrigan, A. F. Hockley, A. Rosenthal; Assistant Professor M. K. Coffey; Senior Lecturer M. E. Heck; Lecturers A. Bokhari, S. E. Kangas; Adjunct Assistant Professors J. L. Carroll, K. O’Rourke; Mellon Fellow P. Wolfskill.

The following courses are offered in the Art History Department in 2007 Fall:

07F:

ARTH 1, "Introduction to Art History, I (Corrigan and Kangas, 11)

ARTH 16, "European Art and Colonialism 1680-1830" (Mansour, 10A). This course
explores the relationship between the visual arts and European colonialism in
the New World between the late seventeenth century and the early nineteenth. It
emphasizes the ways in which visual culture reflected and shaped the
establishment, and eventual transformation, of colonial societies based on
evangelism, slavery and trade. We will examine artworks in a broad range of
media and genres, and in a comparative perspective that encompasses Spain,
France, Britain and their colonies. This course is open to all classes and
carries no prerequisites.

ARTH 20, "Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East" (Kangas, 2)

ARTH 22, "Art of Greece: Late Classical and Hellenistic" (Cohen, 10A)

ARTH 30, "Early Christian Art" (Corrigan, 2A)

ARTH 53, "Classic Modernism" (Jordan, 2)

ARTH 55, "Late and Post-Modernism" (Wolfskill, 11)

ARTH 82, "Renaissance Chapels" (advanced seminar: instructor's permission
required) (Randolph, 2A) The Arena, the Brancacci, the Sassetti, and the
Sistine chapel. The names of Renaissance chapels resound with significance, for
these spaces, sites of contemporary touristic and academic pilgrimage, retain
some of their original charism. In this course, we will seek to understand our
own fascination with these spaces, their decoration, and their history, through
a detailed exploration of each, addressing its genesis, original appearance,
devotional activation, and socio-cultural context. This seminar, naturally,
touches upon the life and work of the major artists involved-Giotto, Masaccio,
Masolino, Filippino Lippi, Ghirlandaio, and Michelangelo. We also, by way of
comparison, consider some other chapels, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. The
focus, however, falls upon the four chapels mentioned above and on the varied
interpretations of these spaces by commentators, critics, and art historians.

ARTH 85, "Senior Seminar in Art Historical Method and Practice" (Cohen, 3A)
This is the Art History major culminating experience seminar, open to senior Art
History majors only, with permission of the instructor.