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Effective Term:
Fall 2021

Course Number:
ART 206
Course Title:
History of Western Art: Renaissance to Baroque
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Explores major monuments and themes of Renaissance and Baroque art from around 1400 through 1700. Analyzes the visual arts to reveal the impacts of social, political, and technological changes, and to gain insight on Renaissance and Baroque art and their impact on the world today. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Explain how Renaissance and Baroque art is representative of the historical moment in which it was produced, acknowledging the interactions between social, cultural, technological, and/or economic factors and art.
  • Utilize a critical vocabulary as a framework for discussing, creating and/or writing about Renaissance and Baroque art.
  • Analyze the relationship between form, context and meaning in visual communication.
  • Articulate the relationships between Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of visual culture, and world history to enhance civic and global engagement.
  • Apply insights gained from course content to visual culture encountered outside of the classroom.

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

General education philosophy statement

Through the study of art history, students look closely at works of art and architecture, articulating the way elements of art are interrelated and considering how values and interpretations have changed over time. They critically analyze visual communication, work creatively with art historical data, use evidence to support arguments and assess the stakes of primary and secondary sources. They also analyze the relationships between art and its historical, cultural, social and political contexts. Art history enhances students’ engagement in contemporary global culture through a deeper understanding of history, which helps students recognize connections between the past and present and become more aware of their own vantage points.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Assessment tools may include:

  • informal and formal responses to discussion questions

  • analysis and evaluation of reading assignments

  • visual and contextual analysis of art in writing assignments and exams

  • journals assessing learning in and out of the classroom

  • research projects resulting in papers or presentations

  • class field trips

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

  • Analyze and work creatively with art historical data, using it to better understand the history of art and visual culture.

  • Evaluate primary and secondary art historical sources, assessing their stakes and motives.

  • Assess the ways in which art is impacted by the viewer’s vantage point.

  • Articulate the relationship between art and its historical, social and political context.

  • Recognize and differentiate various styles of art and evaluate how values and interpretations change over time.

  • Recognize and identify parallels between the art historical past and the present.

  • Conduct a formal analysis of a work of art and articulate the way its elements are interrelated.

  • Research and write coherently about art history, using evidence to support arguments.

  • Use knowledge gained in the course to study fine art, art history, design, anthropology or history at a four-year institution.

THEMES, CONCEPTS, AND ISSUES:

  • The Origins of Renaissance Art

  • The Classical Revival

  • Neo-Platonism

  • 15th century Northern European Art

  • 15th century Italian Renaissance Art

  • 16th century Italian Renaissance Art

  • Italian Renaissance Architecture

  • Prominent artists of the Renaissance and Baroque Period

  • Venetian Painting

  • Mannerism

  • 16th century Northern Renaissance Art

  • Baroque Art and Architecture

  • 17th century Italian Realism

  • Caravaggio and his followers

  • Women in the Renaissance and Baroque Era

  • 17th century Classicism

  • Annibale Carracci and Nicolas Poussin

  • 17th century Italian Sculpture

  • 17th century Spanish Art

  • Artifact Recovery, Analysis and Restoration

  • Art and the Commercial Revolution

  • Art and Colonization

  • Art and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

  • Renaissance and Baroque Art and Politics

  • Renaissance and Baroque Art and Religion

  • Renaissance and Baroque Art and Economics