HAD-616 Arts of the Northern Renaissance

3 Credits

This course examines painting in Flanders, France, The Netherlands, and Germany from 1400 to 1600. Focus will be on the development of new styles of representation and their implications for the iconography of painting, the effects of religious revolution on the practice of art and the outburst of iconoclasm, and the changes in the practice and marketing of art brought on by the early stages of the transition to a capitalist society.