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 111-411 The Connoisseurship of Italian Landscape Painting and Drawing

Note

Available as 111-311 at 3rd-year level.

No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-311 Studies in Italian Landscape Painting.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator

Associate Professor David Marshall

Contact

Three hours of lectures, tutorials or seminars each week

Subject Description

This subject develops skills in practical connoisseurship. Connoisseurship is the task of discriminating between works of art primarily by means of their visual properties. The primary emphasis of the subject is visual, and seminars are therefore mainly devoted to discussing particular problem areas in the connoisseurship of Italian landscape painting and drawing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also addressed are the nature and use of the primary sources, artists biographies, inventories, sale catalogues and the art market. Artists considered include Patinir, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Carracci, Elsheimer, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Salvator Rosa, Canaletto, and Corot.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words for 3rd year and 6000 words for 4th year.



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