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.
- Sumerians - Ur
- Egypt
- Babylon
- Persians - Darius and Xerxes
Week 4. Greek
- Archaic period - 600 - 480 BC
- Classic period - 480 - 323 BC
- Hellenistic period - 323 - 150 BC
Week 5. Imperial Rome
- Etruscan
- Sculpture
Week 6. Roman Empire
A. Architecture
B. Engineering
C. Christian Art
Week 7. Byzantine
- Mosaics
- Sculpture
- Early Middle Ages
Week 8. Romanesque
- Cathedrals
- Tapestry
- Sculpture
- 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.
- Brunelleschi
- Bramante
- Painters
- Sculptors
Week 12. High Renaissance
- Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Titian
Mannerism
Palladio
Low Countries- Jan van Eyck
- Pieter Bruegel
Hans Holbein
- Michelangelo
Week 13. Baroque and Rococo
- Caravaggio
- Carlo Maderno
- Nicolas Poussin
- Claude Lorrian
- Versailles
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Jan Vermeer
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
- Christopher Wren
- Gilbert Stuart
Week 14/15. Neo-Classicism
- Jacques- Louis David
Jean- Auguste- Dominique Ingres
Jean Antoine Houdon
Thomas Jefferson - Romanticism
Francisco Goya
Eugene Delacroix
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Thomas Cole - Realism
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Francois Millet
Daumier
Winslow Homer
Thomas Eakins
Week 16. Art forms and the changes- production and photography