Course: Renaissance Art - bmc.HART.B130.001.F26

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HART B130 Renaissance Art

A survey of Renaissance Art, focusing on artistic genres and topics in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe.

Tuesday and Thursday 10:10-11:30 AM

Instructor: Dasol Kim

Teaching Assistant: Nina Blomfield

Image: Hours of Mary of Burgundy, 15th century, Bruges, painting on parchment, folio 43v.
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Select section SYLLABUS

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SYLLABUS
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  Syllabus File DOCX
  
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Select section EXAM

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EXAM
- Select activity Guidelines and Resources
  
  Midterm: 10/8 Thursday
  
  Final exam: 12/15 Tuesday (*in the hardcopy syllabus that I handed out in class, it was wrongly indicated as Thursday; I revised and reposted it on the Moodle)
  
  Exam guidelines and resources will be posted here.
Select section ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES

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ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES
- Select activity Assignment due dates
  
  1st assignment announcement 9/10, due date 9/24 11:59 PM
  
  2nd assignment announcement 10/22, due date 11/17 11:59 PM
  
  *Both assignment guidelines and submission sections will be posted under the due dates within the schedule below.
Select section 9/1 T Introduction

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9/1 T Introduction
- Select activity David Y. Kim, “Renaissance,” Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online.
  
  David Y. Kim, “Renaissance,” Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online. File PDF
  
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- Select activity 9/1 Slide: What was the Renaissance?
  
  9/1 Slide: What was the Renaissance? File PDF
  
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Select section 9/3 R Brunelleschi’s Dome: The Competition and the Early Florentine Renaissance

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9/3 R Brunelleschi’s Dome: The Competition and the Early Florentine Renaissance
- Select activity Stephen J. Campbell, “1400–1410: The Cathedral and the City,” in Italian Renaissance Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012), 50–69.
  
  Stephen J. Campbell, “1400–1410: The Cathedral and the City,” in Italian Renaissance Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012), 50–69. File PDF
  
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- Select activity David Hemsoll, “Brunelleschi’s Buildings,” in Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 51–79.
  
  David Hemsoll, “Brunelleschi’s Buildings,” in Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 51–79. File PDF
  
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- Select activity 9/3 Slide: Brunelleschi's Dome and Competition in Early Florentine Renaissance
  
  9/3 Slide: Brunelleschi's Dome and Competition in Early Florentine Renaissance File PDF
  
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Select section 9/8 T Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Nudes

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9/8 T Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Nudes
- Select activity Michael Vickers, “A Greek Source for Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Nudes and Hercules and the Twelve Giants,” The Art Bulletin (1977): 182–187.
  
  Michael Vickers, “A Greek Source for Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Nudes and Hercules and the Twelve Giants,” The Art Bulletin (1977): 182–187. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Jill Burke, “Nakedness and Other Peoples: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude,” Art History (September 2013): 714–739.
  
  Jill Burke, “Nakedness and Other Peoples: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude,” Art History (September 2013): 714–739. File PDF
  
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- Select activity 9/8 Slide: Battling Nudes
  
  9/8 Slide: Battling Nudes File PDF
  
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Select section 9/10 R Special Collections: Renaissance Nude (assignment 1 related)

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9/10 R Special Collections: Renaissance Nude (assignment 1 related)
- Select activity 9/10 object study day
  
  Welcome to the first object study day! We will see many sixteenth-century prints (some of them 19th-century reprints) as well as a few plaster copies of sixteenth-century ivory sculptures. Object information is attached below.
  
  All works center on the theme of the nude. Think again about how we described diverse kinds of nudes (medium, poses, composition, narrative strategy, clothed and unclothed, forms, emotions, values, and more) together in our class on Pollaiuolo, and read an essay assigned for 9/10, a very brief outline of the Renaissance nude by Thomas Martin, before coming to the Special Collections visit.
  
  The Special Collections visit on 9/10 will last 40 minutes for each group (*please note not all special collections visits have same durations. I will always announce a few days ahead before individual visits)
  
  Location: Meet up at the Special Collections study room on the Canaday Library 2nd floor.
  
  Group 1: 10:10 AM-10:50
  Alya, Lorenzo, Nora, Paige, Katie, Molly, Theo, Nancy, Astrid, Anna, Zemil, Lilith, Sienna
  Group 2: 10:50 AM-11:30
  Paulina, Liza, Ev, Kiley, Ashvy, Zadie, Miquelle, Holly, Ella, Maggie, Chloe, Jerry
  
  Please find your visiting times and let me know immediately if you don't find your name.
  
  * The objects you see on this day of 9/10 will be the subject matter for your assignment 1 (due 9/24).
  
  * I’ll give out the assignment guideline at the beginning of the class.
  * At the end of the class, I'll ask you to choose one work for your assignment and write down your name on the list of objects before you leave (of course, several people may choose one object). This is to help the curator prioritize the objects of your choice when arranging them in drawers for you to come back and study for your assignment.
  
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  - You cannot use pens in the study room; pencils are fine.
  
  - Of course, even if it is a pencil, please don't point it to the artworks.
  
  - Washing hands before studying objects is much appreciated. Thank you!
- Select activity 9/10 object information
  
  9/10 object information File PDF
  
  Please refer to this list of objects to identify the artwork and use the information in your assignment. As the assignment prompt (available under 9/24) indicates, Assignment 1, due 9/24, should include the author (if known), title, and date of the object of your choice in the essay text.
  
  You can also look up the object information at https://triarte.brynmawr.edu/prt3730
  
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- Select activity Object Locations in Drawers
  
  Object Locations in Drawers File PDF
  
  Our curator stored the objects in drawers to be held there until 9/24 so that you can come back to study them while writing your assignment.
  
  The drawers are located near the Special Collections offices on the 2^nd floor of Canaday Library. The objects are accessible during the entire opening hours of the Canaday Library: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/offices-services/library-information-technology-services#hours
  
  Photographs of drawers:
  
  I have also attached a pdf list that indicates the drawer number and the object it holds.
  
  Have fun studying old artworks in scrutiny!
  
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- Select activity Thomas Martin, “The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art,” in A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, eds. Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 485–507.
  
  Thomas Martin, “The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art,” in A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, eds. Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 485–507. File PDF
  
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Select section 9/15 T Fashion and Identity

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9/15 T Fashion and Identity
- Select activity Ulinka Rublack, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), “Documents of National Style” 125–127, and selected pages from “Symbolizing Gender” and “Moral Geographies” 144–160.
  
  Ulinka Rublack, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), “Documents of National Style” 125–127, and selected pages from “Symbolizing Gender” and “Moral Geographies” 144–160. File PDF
  
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Select section 9/17 R Special Collections: Cesare Vecellio

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9/17 R Special Collections: Cesare Vecellio
- Select activity Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones, “Introduction: Vecellio and His World,” in The Clothing of the Renaissance World (London: Thames and Hudson, 2008), 8–42.
  
  Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones, “Introduction: Vecellio and His World,” in The Clothing of the Renaissance World (London: Thames and Hudson, 2008), 8–42. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Group Visiting Schedule
  
  Schedule and location will be announced.
Select section 9/22 T Portraits: Face, Aura, and Meditation

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9/22 T Portraits: Face, Aura, and Meditation
- Select activity Frank Zöllner, “From the Face to the Aura: Leonardo da Vinci’s Sfumato and the History of Female Portraiture,” in Inventing Faces: Rhetorics of Portraiture between Renaissance and Modernism, eds. Mona Körte, Ruben Rebmann, Judith Elisabeth Weiss and Stefan Weppelmann (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013), 67–83.
  
  Frank Zöllner, “From the Face to the Aura: Leonardo da Vinci’s Sfumato and the History of Female Portraiture,” in Inventing Faces: Rhetorics of Portraiture between Renaissance and Modernism, eds. Mona Körte, Ruben Rebmann, Judith Elisabeth Weiss and Stefan Weppelmann (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013), 67–83. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Susie Nash, “Meditation and Imagination,” in Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 270–88.
  
  Susie Nash, “Meditation and Imagination,” in Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 270–88. File PDF
  
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Select section 9/24 R How Devotional Images Work

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9/24 R How Devotional Images Work
- Select activity First Short Assignment Due 9/24 by 23:59
  
  First Short Assignment Due 9/24 by 23:59
  
  Opened: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 8:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Susie Nash, “Moving Images,” in Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 228–239.
  
  Susie Nash, “Moving Images,” in Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 228–239. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, and Nicholas Penny, “Christian Worship and Imagery,” in Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 22-44.
  
  Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, and Nicholas Penny, “Christian Worship and Imagery,” in Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 22-44. File PDF
  
  Read only until page 44.
  
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Select section 9/29 T How Prints Became Works of Art

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9/29 T How Prints Became Works of Art
- Select activity Peter Parshall and David Landau, “How Prints Became Works of Art: The First Generation,” in The Renaissance Print, 1470–1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 33–65.
  
  Peter Parshall and David Landau, “How Prints Became Works of Art: The First Generation,” in The Renaissance Print, 1470–1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 33–65. File PDF
  
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- Select activity David Areford, “The Image in the Viewer’s Hands: The Reception of Early Prints in Europe,” Studies in Iconography 24 (2003): 5–42.
  
  David Areford, “The Image in the Viewer’s Hands: The Reception of Early Prints in Europe,” Studies in Iconography 24 (2003): 5–42. File PDF
  
  Areford is optional, not required
  
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Select section 10/1 R Dürer

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10/1 R Dürer
- Select activity Erwin Panofsky, “Reorientation in the Graphic Arts; The Culmination of Engraving, 1507/11-1514,” in Albrecht Dürer, 3rd (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), 132–51.
  
  Erwin Panofsky, “Reorientation in the Graphic Arts; The Culmination of Engraving, 1507/11-1514,” in Albrecht Dürer, 3rd (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), 132–51. File PDF
  
  Read only until page 151.
  
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- Select activity Robert Smith, “Durer as Christ?,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 6 (1975): 26–36.
  
  Robert Smith, “Durer as Christ?,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 6 (1975): 26–36. File PDF
  
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Select section 10/6 T Special Collections: Dürer and Michael Wolgemut Workshop

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10/6 T Special Collections: Dürer and Michael Wolgemut Workshop
- Select activity Reading the Nuremberg Chronicle
  
  Reading the Nuremberg Chronicle URL
Select section 10/8 R Midterm Exam (in class)

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10/8 R Midterm Exam (in class)
Select section Fall Break 10/10~10/18

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Fall Break 10/10~10/18
Select section 10/20 T Beyond Grotesque: Matthias Grünewald and Hieronymus Bosch

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10/20 T Beyond Grotesque: Matthias Grünewald and Hieronymus Bosch
Select section 10/22 R Special Collections: Artworks of Christian Worship (assignment 2 related)

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10/22 R Special Collections: Artworks of Christian Worship (assignment 2 related)
- Select activity Group Visiting Schedule
  
  * The collection during this visit will be the subject matter for your assignment 2 (due 11/17).
  
  Schedule and location will be announced.
Select section 10/27 T Special Collections: Caricatures and Portraits

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10/27 T Special Collections: Caricatures and Portraits
Select section 10/29 R What is a Grotesque?

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10/29 R What is a Grotesque?
Select section 11/3 T Grotesques in New Spain Architecture

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11/3 T Grotesques in New Spain Architecture
Select section 11/5 R European Imagination of America

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11/5 R European Imagination of America
Select section 11/10 T Special Collections: Theodor de Bry’s Americae (Frankfurt, 1590)

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11/10 T Special Collections: Theodor de Bry’s Americae (Frankfurt, 1590)
Select section 11/12 R Collecting Art, Science, and the World

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11/12 R Collecting Art, Science, and the World
Select section 11/17 T Special Collections: Copies of Ivories and Material Culture

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11/17 T Special Collections: Copies of Ivories and Material Culture
- Select activity Second Short Assignment Due 11/17 23:59
  
  Second Short Assignment Due 11/17 23:59
  
  Opens: Thursday, October 22, 2026, 8:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 11:59 PM
Select section 11/24 T Still-life and Peasant Scenes

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11/24 T Still-life and Peasant Scenes
Select section 12/1 T Art and Patronage of Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo and Raphael

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12/1 T Art and Patronage of Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo and Raphael
Select section 12/3 R Venetian Painters: Giorgione and Titian

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12/3 R Venetian Painters: Giorgione and Titian
Select section 12/8 T Women Artists: Sofonisba Anguissola and Catharina van Hemessen

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12/8 T Women Artists: Sofonisba Anguissola and Catharina van Hemessen
Select section 12/10 R No class

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12/10 R No class
Select section Final Exam 12/15 Tuesday (in class)

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Final Exam 12/15 Tuesday (in class)

Section outline

HART B130 Renaissance Art

Instructor: Dasol Kim

Image: Hours of Mary of Burgundy, 15th century, Bruges, painting on parchment, folio 43v.