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111-440 Art and Culture in the Burgundian Netherlands 1380-1480

Year 4 Fine Arts.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: Two art history subjects at second or third-year level.

Contact: Three hours of lectures, tutorials or seminars a week.

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should, in addition to the above:

• have a sound knowledge and understanding of different aspects of artistic production in the Burgundian Netherlands during the fifteenth century.

Content:

Netherlandish painting, sculpture and book illumination; artistic patronage at the Burgundian courts; the graphic arts; new developments in portraiture and secular art in the context of civic life.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Panofsky E Early Netherlandish Painting Harper and Row (any edition)
• Snyder J Northern Renaissance Art 1380-1550 Abrams 1985
• Prevenier W & Blockmans W The Burgundian Netherlands Cambridge University Press 1986

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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