Introduction to European Art Appreciation
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Returning this year is my 20 week Introduction to European Art Appreciation at Imperial College, London. Taught over three terms, it begins on Wednesday 16th October 2013 and ends on Wednesday 19th March, 2014. This introductory course presents an opportunity to explore a wide variety of European art from early Byzantine through to late Victorian and Impressionism. The course aims to encourage in participants a dialogue regarding the varied varieties of art and the appreciation thereof. The structure will be that of a broadly chronological and geographical approach, which will take in key movements, styles and artists, with some classes devoted exclusively to artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and many
more.
The course begins with the first three weeks devoted to iconography, exploring aspects such
as saints, pagan gods, signs, symbols, meaning and more. Within these first three lessons
we will also look at the application of perspective and colour. Thereafter each week will also
focus on particular movements and periods in European art history, the result being by the
end of the course you will have a broad understanding of art appreciation in a historical and
aesthetic context as well as the confidence to speak knowledgeably and critically about
European art. No prior knowledge of art history is required.
as saints, pagan gods, signs, symbols, meaning and more. Within these first three lessons
we will also look at the application of perspective and colour. Thereafter each week will also
focus on particular movements and periods in European art history, the result being by the
end of the course you will have a broad understanding of art appreciation in a historical and
aesthetic context as well as the confidence to speak knowledgeably and critically about
European art. No prior knowledge of art history is required.
Please find below a brief week-by-week course outline.
SEMESTER ONE:
1. The Iconography of Venus, Cupid and Mars
2. The Iconography of Adorations and Annunciations
3. The Iconography of Saints and Sinners
4. Byzantine to Gothic
5. Medieval and Gothic
6. The Florentine Renaissance
7. The Northern Renaissance
8. The Sienese Renaissance
9. Botticelli
SEMESTER TWO:
10. Leonardo
11. Raphael
12. Michelangelo
13. The Venetian Renaissance
14. Baroque
15. Northern Baroque
16. Art in Spain
17. Art in France
18. The Dutch Golden Age
19. Neo-Classicism
20. The Victorian Age to the Modern Age
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