Art History Outline

16 Weeks

Levels One and Three

Week 1.  The universal language of art. Studying Art

Week 2.  What is visual communication? Learning the various media? Principles and Elements of Art and application.

Week 3.  The beginnings of Western Art and civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

  1. Sumerians - Ur
  2. Egypt
  3. Babylon
  4. Persians - Darius and Xerxes

Week 4.  Greek

  1.  Archaic period - 600 - 480 BC
  2.  Classic period - 480 - 323 BC
  3.  Hellenistic period - 323 - 150 BC

Week 5.  Imperial Rome

  1. Etruscan
  2. Sculpture

Week 6.  Roman Empire

A.  Architecture

B.  Engineering

C. Christian Art

Week 7.  Byzantine

  1. Mosaics
  2. Sculpture
  3. Early Middle Ages

Week 8. Romanesque

  1. Cathedrals
  2. Tapestry
  3. Sculpture
  4. Islamic

Week 9.  Gothic

A. Chartres

B. Various Cathedrals

Week 10. African Art / Middle East / Asia Art

1. China

2. India

3. Japan

Week 11. Early Renaissance- During this period Art and Architecture focus on individuals and styles.

    1. Brunelleschi
    2. Bramante
    3. Painters
    4. Sculptors

Week 12. High Renaissance

    1. Michelangelo
      Leonardo da Vinci 
      Raphael
      Titian
      Mannerism
      Palladio
      Low Countries
      1. Jan van Eyck
      2. Pieter Bruegel
      Albert Durer 
      Hans Holbein

Week 13. Baroque and Rococo

        1.  
        1. Caravaggio
        2. Carlo Maderno
        3. Nicolas Poussin
        4. Claude Lorrian
        5. Versailles
        6. Peter Paul Rubens
        7. Jan Vermeer
        8. Rembrandt van Rijn
        9. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
        10. Christopher Wren
        11. Gilbert Stuart

    Week 14/15. Neo-Classicism 

    1. Jacques- Louis David
      Jean- Auguste- Dominique Ingres
      Jean Antoine Houdon
      Thomas Jefferson 
    2. Romanticism
      Francisco Goya
      Eugene Delacroix
      Joseph Mallord William Turner
      Thomas Cole
    3. Realism
      Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
      Jean Francois Millet
      Daumier
      Winslow Homer
      Thomas Eakins

    Week 16. Art forms and the changes- production and photography