Course Details
Country:
Germany
Institution:
Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) Summer School
Course Title:
History of European Art: Local Traditions and Transnational Networks
Course Number:
2.09
Course Description:
This course explores European art from the 15th to the 20th century with a particular focus on urban centers like Florence, Rome, Venice, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, London, and Berlin. The aim is to analyze how the visual arts contributed through the centuries to shape local identities as well as European cultural traditions common to different countries and transcultural, global networks. The course will present iconic moments of the history of the arts in Europe by drawing a special attention to episodes of cultural exchanges and hybridization that arose from travelling artworks as well as from artists’ travels in Europe and beyond. From the role of artists like Raphael and Michelangelo in 16th-century papal Rome to the rise of genre painting in the Flanders and the Dutch Republic of the Golden Age, from the ‘painters of modern life’ in 19th-century Paris to the German Avant-garde of the 1920s.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ARTH 201
Attachment Files:
History-of-European-Art_B-Track_en_term_II_2020.pdf
