ARTH 402-010
The Renaissance Home: Architecture and Material Culture
Linda Pellecchia
Tuesday, 2:00 -5:00 pm
Examination of Renaissance palaces and their uses in Italy from 1400-1600. Focus on everyday life and social history. Topics include: entertaining, marriage chests and rituals, kitchens and gastronomy, private chapels, decorating the bedroom, gendered spaces, birthing trays.

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ARTH402-011
Art of the Niger Delta
Wednesday, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Ikem Okoye
Explores historic and modern art of the Atlantic Niger Delta. Pays attention to the relationship between a tropical river ecosystem, the religious practices it inspired, the recent politics of oil exploration and environmental degradation now encountered, and the ‘traditional’ and contemporary art that engages these universes.

ARTH606
Early Irish & Anglo-Saxon Art
Monday, 9:05 - 12:05
Lawrence Nees
This seminar will focus on the period 600-800 CE across the British Isles, including discussion of sculpture and metalwork as well as illuminated and illustrated manuscripts. Primary issues will be the use of textual sources, close examination of extant works of art, and historiographical developments.

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ARTH 617
Art and Religion: The Netherlands After Iconoclasm
Tuesday, 9:30 - 12:30 pm
Perry Chapman
This seminar studies the impact of Protestantism and the 16th-century destruction of images on painting and printmaking in the 17th-century Netherlands of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer

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ARTH 667-010
Methodology and Histiography of Architectural History and Theory
Wednesday, 2:30 - 5:30 pm
Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Intensive seminar designed to introduce important methodological grounds in architectural history and theory. Students will examine ways in which historians and theorists approach “architecture,” and discuss strengths and pitfalls of each method. Themes vary from formalism and social history, to psychoanalysis and historiographical operation

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ARTH 667-011
Transforming Culture: Envisioning the Future in African American Art
Tuesday, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Ann Gibson/Marks: Cross-Listed with SOC667
Exploration of African American visual culture in an interdisciplinary framework. Majors from all departments will focus on selected artists and works in the University’s Paul Jones Collection. Readings will be drawn from music, and art history, literature, sociology and philosophy, and other disciplines

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ARTH 667-012
Critical Race Art History
Thursday, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Camara Holloway
An exploration of how race informs the history of art. How has racial ideology affected how objects are interpreted, shaped taste and notions of beauty, determined the reception of works of art, and governed the construction of the canon?

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