Courses

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART I

Thursdays, 9:30-11:30
10 weeks, Jan. 26–Mar. 30
$45 plus museum admission
Video lectures, discussion, museum visit

Plunge into the tumultuous world of the Italian Renaissance by getting to know the great artists who set a new standard for beauty that still dominates Western art. We begin part one of our two-term visual journey at the dawn of the Renaissance in Tuscany, where the revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman art helped spark a creative revolution. Among the masters whose work we’ll explore in depth are Masaccio, often hailed as the greatest painter of the Early Renaissance; Piero della Francesca, whose paintings have been called “mesmerizing and otherworldly”; and Botticelli, whose lyrical style in such works as The Birth of Venus marks him as one of the most original painters of his time.