Undergraduate Course: The Art of 16th-Century Venice (LLLA07142)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (ECA) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Sixteenth-century Venice was extraordinarily rich in artistic talent. In addition to the illustrious Titian, a constellation of artistic geniuses worked in Venice producing paintings of the highest quality. This course will examine in detail the careers of some of these artists placing them within their cultural and political contexts. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Lifelong Learning - Session 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
22/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
¿ demonstrate a wide-ranging knowledge of sixteenth-century Venetian painting
¿ demonstrate a familiarity with the artists responsible for the work, and their contexts
¿ understand the role of the international art market in the dissemination of Venetian painting
¿ critically engage with the historical circumstances and extant evidence.
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Assessment Information
| One 2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth 100% of the total course mark. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Week 1: Introduction to the City State of Venice, La Serenissima, created out of inhospitable marsh land with few natural resources yet became one of the wealthiest states in Europe. Carpaccio, Lion of St Mark; Bellini, Procession in the Piazza di S. Marco; Bellini, Portrait of Doge Loredan; Titian, the Assunta
Week 2: Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, their influence on Venetian painting, Young Woman at her Toilet, Madonna with Saints
Week 3: Giorgione and the birth of the female Nude, Venus, the Tempest, Laura; Carpaccio and the influence of Netherlandish art, Dream of St Ursula, Healing of the Possessed Man
Week 4: Titian, his early career, The Assunta, The Three Ages of Man, Venus Rising from the Sea
Week 5: Titian, his later career, Diana and Actaeon, Diana and Callisto, Portrait of Charles V
Week 6: Tintoretto, painter to the ¿middling folk¿, Finding the Body of St Mark, Miracle of the Slave, Christ Carried to the Tomb
Week 7: Veronese, painter to the nobility, The Feast in the House of Levi, The Wedding at Cana, The Family of Darius before Alexander
Week 8: Lorenzo Lotto, The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis and an Unidentified Female Saint, Venetian Woman in the Guise of Lucretia; Jacopo Bassano, The Adoration of the Kings, St Roche among the Plague Victims
Week 9: Venetian courtesans, neither lady nor whore; Titian, Flora, The Venus of Urbino, Paris Bordon, Venetian Women at Their Toilet
Week 10: visit to the National Gallery of Scotland
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| Transferable skills |
¿ Critical thinking.
¿ Analysis of sources.
¿ Written and oral communication. |
| Reading list |
Clark, Michael, Bowron, Edgar and Butterfield, Andrew, 2010. Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting. Newhaven CT: Yale University Press.
Gombrich, E., 1995. The Story of Art. Oxford: Phaidon.
Humfrey, P., 1995. Painting in Renaissance Venice. Newhaven CT Yale University Press.
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| Study Abroad |
N/A |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sally Crumplin
Tel:
Email: Sally.Crumplin@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Sabine.Murdoch@ed.ac.uk |
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