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As course instructor I will strive to make appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities, as specified in federal regulations. If you have a disability and need accommodation, please follow this procedure. First, contact and register with the office of Disability Services in Westside Hall (x3746). Second, obtain a copy of your accommodation letter, and then make arrangements to speak with me. Assistance will gladly be provided based on the recommendations of Disability Services and our mutual agreement.

INTRODUCTION

This is an upper level course in art history which presupposes previous exposure to the history of art in the form of at least one of the art history surveys (ART 201, 202). Familiarity with research methods and the ability to write are also a must. The course will be taught as a lecture course with frequent discussion. Students are expected to stay current in the reading and be prepared for class discussion as appropriate. Assignments may also require that students lead limited discussions  before the entire class. On the other hand, this will all take place in as informal and relaxed an atmosphere as we, the participants, can create. Students will be graded on participation in discussions. 

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REQUIREMENTS

Attendance Policy:

1. Two unexcused absences (not to be taken lightly). Save them for emergencies.
2. If you have more than two absences, the first two must also be documented along with any beyond those (e.g.: all absences must be documented).
3. Reasonable documentation will be accepted, but what is "reasonable" will be determined at the discretion of the professor.
4. Each undocumented absence beyond the original two will result in a 5 point deduction from the student’s final point average.

The Mid -Term Exam will fall around the sixth week of the semester and will be composed of Identification, Objective, and Essay Questions.  This exam is worth 100 points toward your final grade.

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You will design a project for a Renaissance patron. Due date listed in "topics and Assignments."  100 points toward your final grade.

DESCRIPTION

You are a famous artist (architect, painter, sculptor, or all three like Michelangelo). Your patron (a weathly merchant, member of the aristocracy, abbot, cardinal,  pope, guild, or city) has asked you to design a work of art for him (her) or them which will advertise and enhance her (his) or their accomplishments or position in society.  You may use your God given talent to create a city palazzo or country villa, family chapel (in a local church or in the family home), a fresco cycle in a private home, church, or monestary, a sculpture or fountain for the public square, or some other work which springs from your fertile artistic imagination.

You should:
1) produce some visual project, design, plan, sketch, cartoon, etc. of your proposal which you would use to make a presentation to the patron (This should be clear, neat, and supportive visual aid to your presentation, but does not have to be "artistically" or aesthetically perfect).
2) make a written proposal which offers a rational for your choice of subject (e.g.: an architectural tradition upon which you drew for inspiration, a theological or mythological program you intend to use to demonstrate the power and worth of your patron in the work of art); something meant to bolster the patron's ego and or position
3) The written part of your assignment should include at least one piece of correspondence between you, the artist, and your patron in which you discuss some aspect of the project (e.g.: clearing up a misunderstanding, asking for more money because of the increased cost of materials, promoting a part of your design which the patron is not sure about, etc. see reserve bibliography below for ideas.

ARH 305 ~ Italian Renaissance Art

RESERVES 

Baxandall, Michael, (1988, 2^nd ed.) Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy (New York: Oxford), pp.1-27. (electronic reserve) 

Burke, Peter, (1972). Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy. (New York: Scribner’s Sons), pp. 75-98. (electronic reserve) 

Chambers, D.S. (1971).  Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance. (University of South Carolina Press. 

Kempers, Bram. (1994). Painting, Power and Patronage. (Penguin Books), pp. 182-208. electronic reserve) 

Lightbrown, R.W. (1980). Donatello and Michelozzo: An Artistic Partnership and its Patrons in the Early Renaissance. (London: Harvey Miller). 2 vols. 

Wackernagel, Martin. (1981). The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist. (Princeton University Press.
 

[FINAL EXAM DATE:     Tuesday, December 11, 3:00-6:00 PM
The composition of the Final Exam is too be determined. To a great extent it will test material from the second half of the semester, BUT there will be a comprehensive component.  100 points toward your final grade.

Letter Grade/Point Spread

1. Abstracts (3 @ 25 each)        (@20%)

2. Mid-term Exam: 100            (@26.6 %)

3. Project/Presentation: 100      (@26.6%)

4. Final Exam: 100                    (@26.6%)

Total Points:  375

A                           375-356                   100-95
A-                          355-330                     94-88
B+                         329-319                     87-85
B                           318-302                     84-80.6
B-                          301-292.5                  80-78  
C+                         292-281                     77-75
C                           280-266                     74-71
C-                          265-255                     70-68
D+                         254-244                     67-65
D                           243-229                     64-61
D-                          228-214                     60-57              
F                            213-