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Undergraduate Course: Arts and Architecture in Europe II - the Renaissance to the Reformation (LLLA07067)

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
SummaryTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.

Acquire a good grasp of the skills and knowledge used in history of art with this stimulating introductory course. We will examine a variety of works in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Northern and Southern central Europe from the Renaissance to the Reformation.
Course description Not entered
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. Discuss complex issues that are particular to each period;
  2. State and justify what period and what geographical area a work of art could belong to
  3. Understand stylistic differences in Western art from the 14th to the early 17th centuries
  4. Outline the evolution of Western art from the end of the Middle Ages to the early Baroque period.
Reading List
Essential

Gombrich, E. H., 2000. The Story of Art, 4th ed., London: Phaidon.
Honour, H. and Fleming, J., 2001. A World History of Art, 5th ed., London: Laurence King.

Recommended

Panofsky, E., 1972. Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, London: Harper.
Van Mander, Karel 1994. The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, Davaco
Vasari, Giorgio 1993. The Lives of the Artists, London: Folio Society
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Sally Crumplin
Tel:
Email: Sally.Crumplin@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr John Ethcuit
Tel: (0131 6)50 3409
Email: jethcuit@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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