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Undergraduate Course: Masters of the High Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael (LLLA07141)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThese three men were amongst the most inspired creators in the history of art exerting a powerful force on the Italian High Renaissance and on subsequent Western art in general. This course will examine each artist¿s career in detail, placing it within the cultural and political context of the time.
Course description Week 1: Leonardo, apprenticeship and early career in Florence
Week 2: Leonardo, Milan and that famous C.V.
Week 3: Leonardo and the king of France
Week 4: Michelangelo, apprenticeship and early career in Florence
Week 5: Michelangelo and the papacy part one
Week 6: Michelangelo and the papacy part two
Week 7: Raphael and the Court of Urbino
Week 8: Raphael and the influence of Florence
Week 9: Raphael in Rome
Week 10: Visit to the National Gallery of Scotland
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. demonstrate a wide-ranging knowledge of the artwork which characterised the Italian High Renaissance
  2. assess and compare the artists responsible for the work, and their contexts
  3. engage critically with the historical circumstances and extant evidence
  4. analyse the iconographic and compositional elements of a work of art.
Reading List
Hall, Marcia, ed. (2005) The Cambridge Companion to Raphael, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Hibbard, Howard (1975) Michelangelo, Allan Lane, London
Johnson, Geraldine (2005) Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Kemp, Martin (1989) Leonardo da Vinci, Yale University Press, New Haven
Wallace, William E. (2010) Michelangelo: the Artist, the Man and His Times, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Welch, Evelyn (2000) Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Zöllner. Frank and Nathan, Johannes (2011) Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, Taschen, Cologne
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills ¿ Critical thinking.
¿ Handling of a variety of sources.
¿ Oral communication.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Sally Crumplin
Tel:
Email: Sally.Crumplin@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk
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