Art History II

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 1 Overview
Key Learning Items
What is Art? Form and Content
The Skill of Describing
Art as Concept
Art & Context
Representation & Abstraction
Why Is That Important?
Why Is This Art?
Interpreting Contemporary Art
Iconographic Analysis: Understanding Iconography
Formal Analysis: Understanding Visual Form
Art History Terms
External Resources

Chapter 2: Proto-Renaissance (1300-1400)

Chapter 2 Overview
Key Learning Items
Cimabue
Giotto's Arena Chapel
Ognissanti Madonna
Duccio, Maesta
Lorenzetti's Palazzo Pubblico Frescos
Simone Martini's Annunciation
External Resources

Chapter 3: 1400-1500—Art in Northern Europe

Chapter 3 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to the Renaissance in Italy and the North
Sluter's Well of Moses
Holy Thorn Reliquary
Introduction to Flanders
Campin's Merode Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
Arnolfini Portrait
Hugo van der Goes
Van der Weyden's Deposition
The Unicorn in Captivity
External Resources

Chapter 4: 1400-1500—Art in Italy

Chapter 4 Overview
Key Learning Items
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Orsanmichele
Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Linear Perspective
Early Applications of Linear Perspective
Donatello's Works
Contrapposto
Masaccio's Tribute Money
Masaccio's Holy Trinity
Fra Angelico's The Annunciation
Fra Filippo Lippi
Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
Botticelli's Birth of Venus
Alberti
Introduction to Venice
Bellini's St. Francis
Mantegna's Works
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Chapter 5: 1500-1600—High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy

Chapter 5 Overview
Key Learning Items
Art and Science in the Renaissance
Toward the High Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci Introduced
Virgin of the Rocks
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Michelangelo Introduced
Pietà
David
Moses
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment
Marriage of the Virgin
Madonna of the Goldfinch
School of Athens
Alba Madonna
Tempietto
Saint Peter's Basilica
Introduction to Venetian Painting
Giorgione, The Tempest
Bellini & Titian, Feast of the Gods
Titian, Bacchus & Ariadne
Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
Titian, Venus of Urbino
Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi
Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way
Introduction to Mannerism
Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck
Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
El Greco's Adoration of the Shepherds
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Chapter 6: 1500-1600—The Age of Reformation: Northern Renaissance Art

Chapter 6 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation
Dürer's Four Apostles
Self-Portrait 1498
Self-Portrait 1500
What Is a Print?
Dürer's Prints
Bosch's Last Judgment
Altdorfer's Battle of Issus
Cranach's Adam and Eve
** Cranach's Wittenberg Altarpiece
Holbein's The Ambassadors
Portrait of Henry the VIII
Bruegel's The Dutch Proverbs
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Chapter 7: 1600-1700—Baroque Art in Italy

Chapter 7 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to the Baroque
Baroque Art in Italy
Bernini's David
Bernini's St. Peter's Square
Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Coffered Dome Explained
Caravaggio's Deposition
Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio and His Followers
Il Gesu, Rome
Gentileschi
Carracci's Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
Quadro Riportato Explained
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Chapter 8: 1600-1700—Baroque Art in Flanders, Dutch Republic, Spain and France

Chapter 8 Overview
Key Learning Items
Baroque Terms Explained
Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici
Rubens, The Consequences of War
Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Vermeer, The Glass of Wine
Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
Rembrandt, Bathsheba at her Bath
Rembrandt, The Three Crosses
Rembrandt's Self-Portraits
Hal's Singing Boy with Flute
Hal's Malle Babbe
van Huysum, Vase with Flowers
Vanitas Painting Explained
Dutch Genre Painting Explained
Las Meninas
Los Borrachos
Louis XIV & Versailles
Poussin, Landscape with St. John
Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior
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Chapter 9: 1700-1800—The Age of Enlightenment

Chapter 9 Overview
Key Learning Items
Age of Enlightenment
**Rococo Explained
Fragonard's The Swing
Boucher's Madame de Pompadour
Vigee Le Brun's Madame Perregaux
Introduction to Neo-Classicism
David's Oath of the Horatii
David's Death of Marat
David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Antonio Canova
Benjamin West
Sir Joshua Reynolds
William Hogarth
John Singleton Copley
Copley's Watson and the Shark
Charles Wilson Peale
Gilbert Stuart
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Chapter 10: 1800-1848—Industrial Revolution Part I

Chapter 10 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to Romanticism
Liberty Leading the People
Scene of the Massacre at Chios
Death of Sardanapalus
Understanding Delacroix's Painterly Techniques
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
Raft of the Medusa
Portraits of the Insane
Apotheosis of Homer
Madame Riviere
Grand Odalisque
Princesse de Broglie
Third of May, 1808
Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
Constable, The Haywain
Turner, Slave Ship
Hudson River School
The Oxbow
Portrait of a Young Woman
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Chapter 11: 1848-1907—Industrial Revolution Part II

Chapter 11 Overview
Key Learning Items
Becoming Modern
Introduction to Early Photography
Louis Daguerre
Timothy O'Sullivan
Introduction to Realism
Courbet, The Stone Breakers
Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais
Millet, The Gleaners
Degas, The Dance Class
Degas, At the Races in the Countryside
Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe)
Manet, Olympia
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Garnier, Paris Opera
Introduction to Impressionism
Monet, Gare St. Lazare
Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day
Cassatt, In the Loge
Cassatt, The Child's Bath
Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist
Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
Post-Impressionism Explained
Seurat, La Grande Jatte
Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
Van Gogh, The Bedroom
Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Cezanne, Basket of Apples
Cezanne, The Large Bathers
Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Gaudi, Sagrada Familia
Fin-de-siecle Explained
Klimt, The Kiss
Munch, The Storm
Rodin, Gates of Hell
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware
Eakins, The Gross Clinic
Homer, The Life Line
John Singer Sargent, Madame X
Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold
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Chapter 12: 1907-1960—Age of Global Conflict Part I

Chapter 12 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to Fauvism
Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre
Matisse, The Red Studio
Matisse, The Piano Lesson
Kirchner, Street, Dresden
Kandinsky, Composition VII
Schiele, Seated Male Nude
Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning
Picasso's Early Works
Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Picasso, The Reservoir
Picasso, Guitar
** Picasso, Guernica
Braque, The Portuguese
Braque, The Viaduct at L'Estaque
Duchamp and the Ready-Mades
Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm
Duchamp, Fountain
Duchamp, The Red Box
Arp, Untitled
Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Klee, Twittering Machine
An Introduction to Futurism
Three Futurists
Malevich
Mondrian, Composition No. II
Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt
Otto Dix
Feininger, Cathedral
Maholy-Nagy
External Resources

Chapter 13: 1907-1960—Age of Global Conflict Part II

Chapter 13 Overview
Key Learning Items
Man Ray, The Gift
Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
Giacometti, The City Square
Magritte, The Treachery of Images
Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
** House of Art
George Bellows
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Georgia O'Keeffe
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Origins of Abstract Expressionism
Impact of Abstract Expressionism
Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950
** Pollock's Painting Techniques
Rothko, No. 3/No. 13
** Rothko's Painting Technique
Newman, Onement 1
** Newman's Painting Technique
de Kooning, Woman I
Robert Motherwell
Jasper Johns
Rauschenberg
Reinhardt
Introduction to Photography
Cartier-Bresson
Brancusi, Bird in Space
Gilbert, Woolworth Building
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum
Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
External Resources

Chapter 14: 1960-Now—Age of Post-Colonialism Part I

Chapter 14 Overview
Key Learning Items
Introduction to Contemporary Art
Diane Arbus
Cindy Sherman
Sherrie Levine
Francis Bacon
Lucian Freud
Louise Bourgeois
Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe
Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans
Oldenburg, Floor Cake
** Lichtenstein, Girl with Ball
Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
Ed and Nancy Kienholz
Richter, Uncle Rudi
Richter, The Cage Paintings
Donald Judd
Dan Flavin
Robert Morris
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Chicago and Benglis
Introduction to Performance Art
Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair
Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator
External Resources

Chapter 15: 1960-Now—Age of Post-Colonialism Part II

Chapter 15 Overview
Key Learning Items
Understanding Installation Art
Vito Acconci
John Baldessari
Hans Haacke
Mary Kelly
Robert Smithson
Bruce Nauman
Robert Colescott
Damien Hirst
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Ai Weiwei
External Resources

Course Information

Welcome to Art History II at Herkimer College of SUNY
Attendance Requirements
Overview of Course
Course Schedule
How You Will Be Evaluated
Footnote_Citation
Guidelines for Participating in Class

Textbook Online

Lumen Learning Text

Meet the Class

Meet The Class_Post a Bio

Bulletin Board

Class Bulletin Board

Icebreaker

Icebreaker Assignment

Museum Project

Museum Assignment

Module 1 Renaissance Art

Overview Module 1 Renaissance Art
Late Gothic_Renaissance Test
Discussion Forum_Research Michelangelo's Pietas
Written Assignment_Michelangelo OR Grunewald
Jan Van Eyck
Tribute Money_Masaccio
School of Athens_Raphael
The Last Supper_Leonardo da Vinci

Module 2 Baroque Art

Overview Module 2 Baroque Art
Baroque Art Test
Module 2 Discussion Forum 1 Vanitas Paintings and the Meaning of Things
Baroque Module 2 Written Assignment
Module Discussion Forum 2_Summary of Baroque Art
Module 2_Baroque Art_Supplemental Videos/Articles
Module 2 Baroque Art_Topics for Discussion

Module 3 Neoclassical and Romantic Art

Module 3 Overview Neoclassical and Romantic Art
Module 3 Neoclassical and Romantic Art_Discussion_Neoclassical Art, and Architecture in Europe and America
Module 3 Neoclassical and Romantic Art Test
Module 3 Neoclassical and Romantic Art Written Assignment
Module 3 Lecture_Summary of Neoclassical, and Romantic Art
Module 3 Lecture_Death of Socrates_Jacques-Louis David

Module 4 Impressionism and Later 19th Century Art

Module 4 Overview_Impressionism and Later 19th Century Art
Module 4 Test_Impressionism and Later 19th Century Art
Module 4 Discussion 1 Impressionism
Module 4 Discussion 2 Post Impressionism

Module 5 Early 20th Century Art and Architecture

Module 5 Overview of Art and Architecture in Modern Art
Module 5 20th Century Art Discussion
Module 5 20th Century Architecture Written Assignment
Module 5 Art and Architecture Discussion Forum II_Architecture in the 20th Century

Module 6 1960-Now—Age of Post-Colonialism Part I, and II

Module 6 Overview
Module 6 Written Assignment 1960-Now Part 1
Module 6 Discussion 1960-Now—Age of Post-Colonialism Part I

Module 7 Globalism_Non-Western Art

Module 7 Overview Globalism_Non-Western Art
Module 7 Written Assignment_Globalism Non-Western Art
Module 7 Discussion Forum Globalism Non-Western Art

Module 8 Post Modernism Art Dealing with the Issues of Feminist Identity

Module 8 Written Assignment Art_Feminism and Gender Identity in Art
Module 8 Discussion Feminist Artists and the Body
Module 8 Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism
Postmodern Art_The AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT
Queer Art 1960's to the Present