The course will enable the students to achieve an understanding of Western art movements. Develop an effective knowledge of visual art vocabulary through extensive reading of art works done by artists of western world. Learn and demonstrate extensive learning on varied techniques and skills by Western artists.
Byzantine Art: Art and Architecture-Church St. Vitale Ravenna (Mosaics: Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, Empress Theodora and her Attendants), Hagia Sophia Istanbul, St. Mark’s Church. Iconoclasts and Iconophiles
Romanesque Art: Sculpture, Painting, Architecture: St. Remi Church, Reims (1049) France, Notre-Dame, Paray-le-Monial (1090) France, The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun
Gothic Architecture: Architect Abbot Suger, General characteristics and components of Churches and Cathedral (Stained glass windows, Choir, Pulpits, Altarpieces)
Gothic Sculptures– Jamb Statues of Chartres Cathedral, Death of Virgin in Strasbourg Cathedral, Annunciation and Visitation in Reims Cathedral, The Virgin of Paris Notre- Dame, The Kiss of Judas and Crucifixion in Naumburg Cathedral, The Pieta
Gothic paintings
The Early Renaissance artists and their works
· Cimabue (Crucifixion and a Deposition,Madonna of Santa Trinita, the Madonna and Christ Child, the Flagellation of Jesus, the Virgin and Child)
· Giotto (Decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi-the Life of St. Francis, Marriage at Cana, The Annunciation, The Last Judgment, The Mourning of Christ, Bardi Chapel: The Mourning of St. Francis. The Kiss of Judas)
· Duccio (Madonna and Child enthroned, Annunciation of the death of Virgin, Christ entering into Jerusalem)
· Donatello (Tomb of Antipope John XXIII, Beardless Prophet, Bearded Prophet (both from 1415), the Sacrifice of Isaac (1421), Habakuk (1423-1425), Madonna Pazi, Statue of St. George, Statue of St. John the Baptist, Equestrian monument of Gattamelata), David
· Masaccio (Virgin and Child with St. Anne,Holy Trinity, The Tribute Money, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, portraying St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist)
· Brunelleschi
The High Renaissance: Painters, Sculptors, Architects and their works
· Leonardo Da Vinci (The Christ, The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvius Man, The Adoration of the Magi, The Virgin of the Rocks, The Annunciation)
· Michelangelo (The Biblical description on Sistine Chapel and the Fresco technique, The Last Judgment, The Pieta, David, the Moses)
· Bramante (Architect)- Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Santa Maria delle Grazie
· Titian (A fresco of Hercules, Virgin and Child, fresco of Assunta, (The Venus of Urbino, The Rape of Europa The Allegory of Age Governed by Prudence)Giorgione (The Tempest, Sleeping Venus, Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Philosophers, The Allendale Nativity/Adoration of the Shepherds, The Test of Fire of Moses, The Judgment of Solomon)
· Raphael (Drawings, The School of Athens, Mond Crucifixion, BreraWedding of the Virgin, Coronation of the Virgin, Saint George and the Dragon, The Madonna of the Meadow, Deposition of Christ)
Suggested Readings:
1. JOA - Journal of Arts
2. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
3. Atishay Kalit- A Bilingual Research Journal of Fine Arts, Culture and Humanities