Learning through Looking: European Drawings 1500-1800

Undergraduate catalogue

The study of techniques, functions, and connoisseurship of drawings, and their place in the interpretation of the history of art. Drawings ca. 1400-1800 will be the major objects considered. Extensive use of the resources of the art museum. For department majors, this course satisfies the 1400-1800 historical and the Europe cultural area distribution requirements. Prerequisite: a course in Renaissance or baroque art or instructor's permission. One three-hour seminar.