Undergraduate Course Descriptions

ARTH 101
Visual Culture
3 credits
Explores the ways we make, perceive and experience images and artifacts. Students will hone their skills in seeing, analyzing historical models and critically engaging in discussions of visual art and material cultures in selected eras and civilizations around the world.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.

ARTH 150
Monuments and Methods in the History of Art
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture studied as artistic and cultural expressions of their times. Emphasis on selected major artists, monuments and methods of analysis.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.

ARTH 151
Myth, Religion and Art
3 credits
An introduction to the study of mythical and religious images, types, attributes and symbols on a comparative basis from many ages throughout the world. Includes archetypal images, such as the Great Mother, the Great Father, the hero, images with supernatural powers and satirical images.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 153
Introduction to Art History I
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture from Prehistoric times through ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages studied in historical and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.

ARTH 154
Introduction to Art History II
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture of Western Europe from the Renaissance to the present studied in historical and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 156
Rome: From Caesar to Fellini
3 credits
Investigates Rome from antiquity to the 20th-century focusing on art and architecture, archaeology, film, literature, urban planning, law, social history, religion, and politics.

ARTH 162
History of Architecture
3 credits
Major buildings and architects from the ancient world to the present. Elements of architectural design and the influence of social, economic, political, religious and technological factors on the art of building. Architecture as cultural expression.

ARTH 163
Architecture in Global Contexts
3 credits
Concepts of architecture, with case studies drawn from various world regions ranging from prehistoric times to present. Understanding the role of architecture in human society and how it has shaped human history. Study of physical and cultural dimensions of architecture in different parts of the world and learn how to place their varieties in global contexts.

ARTH 165
International Decorative Arts
3 credits
This course will provide an introduction to the history of decorative arts in a wide range of world cultures, from ancient times to the present. Focusing on ornamental and functional arts in metalwork, glass, and ceramics, objects will be placed in their art, historical, cultural, material, and technological context. Case studies will highlight how material and fabrication choices are manipulated in different ways to meet specific aesthetic, functional, and symbolic goals in the decorative arts of Asia, Africa, the Islamic World, Europe, and the Americas.

ARTH 204
Art, Power and Architecture in Africa
3 credits
Explores several African communities including Bamileke, Yoruba, Shona, Edo, Fon, Kuba and Hasua-Fulani (located among others in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Benin, Congo). Reveals the relationships, sometimes spatial, between art and architecture in their varied stances to, and as representations of, political, social and spiritual power.

ARTH 205
Science and the Detection of Art Forgeries
3 credits
Concepts from many scientific disciplines are useful for interpreting works of art. Analytical techniques based on those concepts often reveal art forgeries. Case studies will use basic scientific principles to investigate a wide variety of known or alleged art forgeries
May be cross-listed with MSST205.

ARTH 206
Art and Architecture in Africa
3 credits
Explores all African selections from diverse art histories including modern Congo, contemporary Nigeria and South Africa, 19th-century Mande, 17th-century Ethiopia, 15th-century Edo, 19th-century Yoruba, Nubian Egypt and the re-pharaonic Northeast. Lectures thematize art against a backdrop of politics, religions, sensuality and architecture.

ARTH 207
Art of Ancient Egypt and Near East
3 credits
Survey of the art and architecture of ancient Egypt and Near East. Emphasis on the relationship of art to religion, politics and ritual. Topics include Egyptian pyramids and the after-life, images of kings and art of propaganda and art in the service of religion.

ARTH 208
Greek and Roman Art
3 credits
Development of Greek art and architecture from the Geometric period through the Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic eras. Roman art and architecture from its Etruscan and Greek origins through the Republican period and the stages of the Empire until the time of Constantine the Great.

ARTH 209
Early Medieval Art 200-1000 AD
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe and the Near East. Surveys the earliest Christian art as well as Byzantine, Early Islamic, Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every other year.

ARTH 210
Later Medieval Art, 1000-1400 AD
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture of the Christian world, treating later Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic artistic traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Development of a distinctively European art and society.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every other year.

ARTH 213
Art of the Northern Renaissance
3 credits
Covers late medieval devotional images to the art of the early modern cities (1400-1570), especially in the Netherlands and Germany. Special emphasis on Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Durer and Pieter Bruegel.

ARTH 217
Early Renaissance Art
3 credits
Italian art of the 14th- and 15th-centuries. Special emphasis on the founders of the Renaissance tradition in central Italy such as Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Brunelleschi and Alberti.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.

ARTH 218
High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
3 credits
Italian art in the 16th-century. Emphasis on such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramante, Titian, Tintoretto and El Greco. Also treats the spread of Italian style to France and Spain.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 219
Art of the Italian Renaissance
3 credits
Surveys major artistic centers, personalities and stylistic trends in Italy from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Special emphasis on Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael and Titian. Painting and sculptures are discussed in relation to techniques, systems of production, patronage and crucial historical events.

ARTH 220
Italian Renaissance Architecture
3 credits
Italian architecture and cities from the 14th- to the 16th-centuries. Emphasis on the socio-economic, intellectual and cultural context of Renaissance architecture. Focuses on architects such as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo and Palladio and cities such as Florence, Rome and Venice.

ARTH 222
Baroque Art
3 credits
17th-century European painting, sculpture and architecture in its social-historical context. Emphasis on such major artists as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Poussin and Velasquez. Discussion of the rise of genre, still-life and landscape painting, as well as the role of patronage.

ARTH 225
Eighteenth Century Art
3 credits
Examines major trends and artists in 18th-century European painting, sculpture and architecture in the framework of the social, ideological and cultural currents of the time. Artists such as Watteau, Hogarth, Blake, Chardin, Canova, David and Goya.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 227
Modern Art I
3 credits
History and theory of art 1789-1900, including the neoclassic, romantic, realist, impressionist, and post-impressionist movements.

ARTH 228
Modern Art II
3 credits
History and theory of art from 1900 to the present in its cultural, social, and political context, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, film, and video.

ARTH 230
American Art: 1607-1865
3 credits
Architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts of the United States from the first Colonial settlements to the Civil War. American Art examined in the light of its political, social, economic and religious background and in relationship to European art.

ARTH 231
American Art: 1865-Present
3 credits
Architecture, painting, sculpture, photography and decorative arts in the United States from the Civil War on. American art in a political, social, economic and cultural framework. The rise of the United States to a position of global power and emergence as an international artistic center.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 232
Art of Latin America

ARTH 233
Art of China
3 credits
Survey of the arts of China from neolithic times to the 20th-century. Discussions center on such phenomena as Confucian thought and political art, the importation of Buddhist beliefs and their Chinese expressions, and the search for harmony with the natural world.

ARTH 234
Art of Japan
3 credits
Survey of the art of Japan from neolithic times to the 20th-century. Emphasis on the interaction between imported ideas and native sensibilities, the development of Buddhist imagery and the influence of literature, drama and political change on the visual arts.

ARTH 235
Art of India
3 credits
Survey of the art of Indian Asia from the prehistoric culture of the Indus Valley through the development of Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic religious structures and imagery. Emphasizes the interrelationships of philosophical, religious and aesthetic concepts in shaping Indian art and the spread of India culture.

ARTH 236
Arts of the Islamic World
3 credits
Survey of architecture, painting, ceramics and metalwork of Islam in Western and Southern Asia, Islamic Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Also treats influences of Islamic design on the arts of Judeo-Christian Europe and the rich secular cultures that flourished in Moslem nations.

ARTH 237
Art of Tibet
3 credits
Survey of Tibetan art including sculpture, paintings, textiles, jewelry, ritual objects, architecture, and ephemeral art. Emphasis on relationship of art to religious and philosophical tenets of Buddhist and Bon-po traditions; development of regional styles in Tibet; and artistic connections to northern India, Nepal, and China.

ARTH 242
Women As Image and Imagemaker
3 credits
Analyzes the depiction of women in art from pre-history to the present in the light of recent feminist studies. Topics correspond with particular periods in history. Each class includes a brief discussion of women artists and their works. May be cross-listed with WOMS242.

ARTH 245
The American Home
3 credits
Explores the history and design of the most intimate and public of objects-the house. Our residences are powerful statements about how we see ourselves and how we perceive others. Includes a variety of cultural experiences and investigates the significance of those experiences.

ARTH 250
Rulers' Images from Augustus to George Washington
3 credits
Thirteen rulers from the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds as they were depicted in contemporary artistic and literary works. Rulers studied include Augustus, Justinian, Saint Louis, Napoleon and Washington. Focuses on rulers' images in the modern world.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.

ARTH 301
Research and Methodology in Art History
3 credits
Methods and major approaches to advanced art historical study, together with the practical aspects of research and work in art historical professions, such as education, historic preservation, museums and galleries. Experience with original works of art.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in Fall semester.

ARTH 302
Prints and Society
3 credits
A social history of prints and printmaking techniques, focusing on such major printmakers as Durer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Daumier and Picasso. Topics include the role of woodcuts in popular culture, political and satirical prints, posters and advertising, and the connoisseurship of original prints.

ARTH 303
Art of the Spanish Renaissance
3 credits
The art of Spain and its New World territories during the 15th- and 16th-centuries. Emphasis on the negotiation between different artistic and religious traditions in both the Iberian Peninsula (Christian, Muslim, and Jewish) and Spanish America (European and Native American).

ARTH 304
Northern Baroque Art: The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer
3 credits
Painting, printmaking and art theory in 17th-century Holland and Flanders in social and historical context. Examines the rise of landscape, genre and portraiture, the nature of Dutch realism, the social role of the artist, art and theater, and the impact of religion on art.

ARTH 305
Italian Baroque Art: Metaphor and Marvel
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture from the time of Caravaggio and the Carracci to Bernini and Cortona. Examines topics such as the Counter-Reformation and its impact on the arts, the rise of naturalism and illusionism, the design process and the function of drawings, theatricality and rhetoric.

ARTH 307
Seurat to Matisse: Art in France
3 credits
Examines developments in French art, culture, and society between roughly 1880 and 1907. Topics include the avant-garde, women artists, public art, bohemianism, mass culture and early cinema. Artists studies include Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Morisot, Cassatt, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Vuillard, Redon, Morequ, Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin, Claudel, Matisse and Picasso.

ARTH 308
Modern Architecture I:1750-1900
3 credits
Aesthetic and technological developments in architecture, interior design and the planned environment, beginning with the mid-18th-century break from Renaissance tradition to Art Nouveau and the end-of-19th-century rise of the skyscraper. Architects such as Ledoux, Soane, Richardson, Sullivan, Horta and Gaudi.

ARTH 310
The Role of the Artist in Society
3 credits
Explores changing ideas of the artist from medieval craftsman and Renaissance courtier to Romantic genius and modern revolutionary. Topics include self-portraiture, notions of artistic temperament and genius, women artists and artists' changing relations with their clients.

ARTH 311
Renaissance Women, Society and The Arts
3 credits
Focuses on the role of women in Italian art and society from 1300-1650. Interdisciplinary and feminist readings emphasize a variety of approaches. Topics include gender and power; women as patrons; female eroticism and mysticism; the masculine vision of ideal beauty; women writers and their complaints; nuns, prostitutes and saints. May be cross-listed with WOMS242.

ARTH 318
History of Photography
3 credits
History and aesthetics of photography from its beginnings to the present. Emphasis on photography as artistic expression, the importance of technology and photography in relation to the other arts and social history. Photographers such as Negre, Emerson, Stieglitz, Cunningham, Weston and Arbus.

ARTH 322
Introduction to Historic Preservation
3 credits
Examines a specific research issue within historic preservation including hypothesis construction, design of research methodology and evaluation of results.

ARTH 330
Regional Arts and Architecture
3 credits
Explores the historical development and cultural background of traditional material culture. Each seminar focuses on a particular theme such as the Pennsylvania-Germans, Carolina Low Country or New England Settlements. Topics include architecture, landscape, decorative arts and material life.

ARTH 335
Arts and Architecture of Pennsylvania Germans
3 credits
The distinctive regional culture of the Pennsylvania Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries will be examined through the study of their cultural landscapes, houses and other buildings, decorative arts, gravestones, and manuscript traditions. Explores themes of ethnic aesthetic expression, sectarian culture, community identity, and the functions of art in everyday life.

Mayan Art and Architecture
3 credits
Introduction to the civilization of the Maya as evident in the Yucatan Peninsula. Incorporates visits to relevant archeological zones. Students learn about the geographical framework that shaped the development of Mayan culture, political and economic organizations, art, architecture, ideology and history.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered abroad only.

ARTH 339
Art and Architecture of Europe
3 credits
Primary focus on painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe from the Romanesque to the Modern eras. Subject matter determined by country in which overseas program is conducted. Information valid for courses offered 2001 through 2002.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in a foreign language and only in conjunction with a foreign study program. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 349
Art and Architecture in Context
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture studied as artistic and cultural expressions of their times.
RESTRICTIONS: Taught only in Study Abroad Program

ARTH 366
Independent Study
1-6 credits

ARTH 402
Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art
3 credits
Topics change with each time of offering. Emphasis on art historical reading and research. Student oral reports. Course titles of ARTH 402 for the past couple of years include The Age of Tutankhamen, Places of Delight: The Villa from Antiquity to the Present, The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio.
RESTRICTIONS: For undergraduates only. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 403
History, Philosophy, Functions and Future of Museums
3 credits
Introduction to philosophy, purposes, structure, historical development and future of museums, and botanical and zoological gardens. Examines functions of collection, conservation, research, exhibition/interpretation, and social/cultural services; museum field growth. May be cross-listed with MSST403.

ARTH 405
Seminar in Greek and Roman Art
3 credits
The art and architecture of antiquity from the origins of Greek civilization to the fall of Rome. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Archaic Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic Greek Sculpture, Late Roman Portraiture and Roman Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH208.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 406
Seminar in Medieval Art
3 credits
The art of Europe from the fall of Rome to the late Gothic period. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include The Court of Charlemagne, Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon Art, and Saint Denis and the Origins of Gothic Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH209 or ARTH210.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 408
Seminar in Northern Renaissance Art
3 credits
The arts in Northern Europe from 1300 to 1600. Topics may change with each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 413
Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art
3 credits
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Medici Patronage in the Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 414
Seminar in Italian Renaissance Architecture
3 credits
Italian architecture from 1300 to 1600. Recent topics include Renaissance Villas and Gardens, Brunelleschi and Alberti, Roman Architecture in the Age of Michelangelo, and Palladio.
PREREQ: ARTH220.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 415
Seminar in Italian Baroque Art
3 credits
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy in the 17th century. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Bernini and Roman Baroque Sculpture, Seicento Poetics and Imagery, Caravaggio, and Origins of the Baroque: The Carracci and their Academy.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 417
Seminar in Northern Baroque Art
3 credits
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Rembrandt and Rubens, Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, Northern Baroque Portraiture, and Prints in the Age of Rembrandt.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 419
Seminar in Spanish art of the Golden Age
3 credits
Art in Spain and its colonies from 1500 to 1700. Topics change with each time of offering. Seminars may focus on particular artists, or on broader historical and/or methodological issues dealing with artistic production, reception and circulation within the Spanish empire.

ARTH 420
Seminar in African Art
3 credits
Studies recent scholarship on art and/or architecture in Africa, focusing on specific subjects such as Modern and Contemporary art, sculpture before 1500, global views and uses of African art and art institutions in Africa.
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to Freshmen.

ARTH 421
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art
3 credits
History and theory of art 1789-1900.  Topics vary with each time of offering.  Recent topics include Paris in the age of Gericault, Delacroix, and Baudelaire; Art and Ideology; Flowers of Evil to Nosferatu: Modern Art and Literature; Modern Portraiture.

Prereq: ARTH227 or permission of instructor.

RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 422
Folk and Outsider Art
3 credits
Focuses on the traditional and popular arts of the United States. Topics covered include colonial Pennsylvania German decorative arts, Victorian Welsh gravestones, African-American textile and basketry crafts, and contemporary Inuit graphic arts. Discussions and research will focus on the relationship of folk arts to questions of ethnicity, class, popular culture, and community aesthetics.
Prereq: ARTH227 or permission of instructor.

Restrictions: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 423
Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art
3 credits

History and theory of art from 1900 to the present. Topics vary with each time of offering.

Prereq: ARTH227 or ARTH 228 or permission of instructor.

Restrictions: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 424
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Photography
3 credits
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 19th-century photography. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Photography and Art, Documentary Photography, and 'Art' Photography.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH318.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every other year.

ARTH 425
Silent Cinema
3 credits
Examination of the invention, emergence, and development of silent cinema in Europe, the former USSR, and the United States. Includes study of significant films and filmmakers; social, cultural and artistic contexts; and the critical literature.

ARTH 426

Invention of Tradition in Nineteenth Century European Architecture

3 credits

ARTH 427
Seminar in Twentieth-Century Photography
3 credits
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 20th-century photography. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Photography and Art, and Photography and Criticism.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH228 or ARTH230 or ARTH311.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in the Fall semester, every other year.

ARTH 429
Seminar in Modern Architecture
3 credits
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the present. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include the Architecture of Neoclassicism; and Sullivan, Wright and the Prairie School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 431
Seminar in American Architecture
3 credits
American architecture from the Colonies to the present. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Architecture of the Colonial and Federal periods, Nineteenth-Century American Architecture, and Philadelphia Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 435
Seminar in American Art
3 credits
American art from the Colonies to the present. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Eakins and American Realism, Early American Modernism, and American Painting and Sculpture after World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 440
Seminar in Latin American Art
3 credits
The arts of Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the 21st century. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Art and Religion in Latin America, and Art and Conquest in the New World.

ARTH 454
Vernacular Architecture
3 credits
The study of traditional American folk architecture from the 17th century to the present. Examination of changes in construction, house types and decoration in vernacular buildings, as well as issues of regional differences and individual craftsmanship. May be cross linked with HIST454.

ARTH 457
Survey of African Art
3 credits
Major African art styles, their interrelationships, the context of usage and the meanings of African artworks. May be crosslisted with ANTH457.

ARTH 464
Internship in Art History
On-the-job experience and explore potential occupational areas at a museum or other art related venue, under joint supervision of Department of Art History and sponsoring organization. Completion of journal of activities and/or final academic project or paper.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires pre-approval of instructor and/or department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Does not count as a 400-level seminar and does not fulfill an area requirement. 

ARTH 466
Independent Study 1-6 credits

ARTH 480
Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing in the West
3 credits
Lecture-studio presentation on materials and tools, supports and techniques of wet and dry media drawing in the West from about the year 1400 to the present. Topics include the development and manufacture of paper, pens, brushes, inks, watercolor paint, charcoal, metal points, graphite pencils, natural and fabricated chalks, crayons, pastels, erasers and fixatives. Studio reconstructions of masterworks, lectures and library research. May be cross-listed with ART424, ARTC480, and MSST480.

ARTH 481
Seminar in Materials and Techniques of the Contemporary Painter and Draftsman
3 credits
Twentieth-century artists' materials. Topics: acrylic emulsion, acrylic solution, alkyd resin, and PA paints; collage-assemblage; solvent-photo transfer; synthetic fiber canvas, paper, panels, oil pastels, paint ticks, felt-tip markers, colored ink pencils; airbrush spray gun; and non-art materials. Potential health hazards. Conservation topics: pH, lightfastness, adhesion and storage environments. May Twentieth-century artists' materials. Topics: acrylic emulsion, acrylic solution, alkyd resin, and PA paints; collage-assemblage; solvent-photo transfer; synthetic fiber canvas, paper, panels, oil pastels, paint ticks, felt-tip markers, colored ink pencils; airbrush spray gun; and non-art materials. Potential health hazards. Conservation topics: pH, lightfastness, adhesion and storage environments. May be cross-listed with ART425 and/or ARTC481.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.

ARTH 488
Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting I
3 credits
Major materials including tools, supports and techniques of architectural painting, manuscript illumination and panel painting in encaustic, watercolor, and egg temera from about 1500 BC to AD 1500. Major topics include true fresco and egg tempera painting. Studio reconstructions, lectures and library research. May be cross-listed with ART427, ARTC488, and/or MSST488.

ARTH 489
Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting II
3 credits
Major masters and the materials, tools and techniques of indirect and direct oil and tempura painting. Time frame: 1500 to the present. Major topics include the development of canvas, brushes, oil paint, mediums, varnishes, solvents and the complex relationship between indirect and direct techniques. Includes studio reconstructions of masterworks, lectures and library research. May be cross-listed with ART428, ARTC489, and/or MSST489.

ARTH 490
Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Printmaking I
3 credits
Major master and the materials, tools, and techniques of relief, planographic and intaglio printmaking. Time frame: ca. 1400-1920. Major topics include woodcut, copperplate engraving, etching, drypoint, aquaint, mezzotint, lithograph and wood engraving. Studio reconstructions, lectures and library research. May be cross-listed with ART429, ART490, and or MSST490.