COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - ART HISTORY
ARTH 605 Studies in Greek and Roman Art 3
The art of antiquity from the origins of Greek civilization to the fall of Rome. Recent topics include Archaic Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic Greek Sculpture, Late Roman Portraiture, and Roman Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 606 Studies in Medieval Art 3
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 Medieval Ivories.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 608 Studies in Northern Renaissance Art 3
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 611 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art 3
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Medici Patronage in the Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 614 Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
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.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 615 Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Art 3
The beginnings of Christian expression under the Romans to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Topic of study may change with each time of offering. RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 616 Studies in Italian Baroque Art 3
Italian art in the 17th century. 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 617 Studies in Northern Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. 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 619 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art from the Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution. Recent topics include Goya and the Spanish Enlightenment, J.L.David and Early Romanticism. RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 621 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Art 3
Art from David to Impressionism. Recent topics include Gericault, Delacroix, Cezanne, Art and Politics (1780-1880), The Theory and Practice of Romanticism, Historicism from David to Gerome, and Orientalism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 622 Research Topics in Historic Preservation 3
See UAPP636 for course description.
ARTH 623 Studies in Twentieth-Century Art 3
Art in Europe, with some reference to later American art, from 1900 to the present. Recent topics include Symbolism, Picasso, Dada and Surrealism, and Cubism and French Art.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 627 Studies in the History of Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of photography. Recent topics include 19th-Century Documentary Photography, 19th-Century "Art" Photography, 20th-Century Photography and Criticism, and 20th-Century Photography and Art. RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every other year. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 628 Seminar in Historic Preservation 3
See UAPP629 for course description.
ARTH 629 Studies in Modern Architecture 3
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the present. Recent topics include the Architecture of Neoclassicism and Sullivan, Wright and the Prairie School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 630 History of Theories in Material Culture 3
See EAMC605 for course description.
ARTH 631 Studies in American Architecture of the Colonial and Federal Periods 3
Architecture in the American Colonies from the anonymous buildings of the 17th century to the designs of Thomas Jefferson and B.H.Latrobe in the early 19th century. Recent topics include Colonial and Federal American Architecture and Philadelphia Architecture. Includes field trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 632 Making the American City 3
See UAPP632 for course description.
ARTH 633 Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Architecture 3
The Greek, Gothic, Egyptian and Oriental Revivals; High Victorian Style and its culmination in the Age of Elegance; and Late Nineteenth-Century American Architecture. Includes field trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 634 Methods in Historic Preservation 3
See UAPP630 for course description.
ARTH 636 Studies in American Art 1875-Present 3
Painting, sculpture and related media from Eakins to the present. Recent topics include Eakins and American Modernism, and American Painting and Sculpture after World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 637 Studies in English Art and Architecture 3
The art of England, emphasizing the period from the 16th century through the end of the 19th century. Recent topics include the English Country House, British Painting, English Architecture, and Collecting in England.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 638 European Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in Europe from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Application of art-historical techniques and interpretation. Field trips to New York and Philadelphia.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 639 American Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in America from the 17th century to the present.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 640 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art and art theory in England and the Continent. Topic of study may change with each time of offering.
PREREQ: ARTH214 or ARTH215.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 647 Seminar in Prints and Drawings 3
Graphic art from the 15th to 19th century emphasizing original works of art. Recent topics include Renaissance and Baroque Graphic Art, Prints in the Age of Durer, and Problems in Prints from the Renaissance to the 19th Century.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 657 Survey of African Art 3
See ANTH657 for course description.
ARTH 680 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing in the West 3
See MSST680 for course description.
ARTH 681 Materials and Techniques of the Contemporary Painter and Draftsman 3
See MSST681 for course description.
ARTH 688 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting I 3
See MSST688 for course description.
ARTH 689 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting II 3
See MSST689 for course description.
ARTH 690 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Printmaking I 3
See MSST690 for course description.
ARTH 801 Introduction to Decorative Arts in America to 1850 3
See EAMC801 for course description.
ARTH 810 Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European and American Sculpture 3
Academic and non-academic traditions of European and American sculpture of the 19th century and the several phases of modernism. Among the artists treated are Canova, Carpeaux, Rodin, Greenough, Powers, Saint-Gaudens, Calder and Smith.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
ARTH 811 Studies in American Painting Before 1800 3
Painting of Colonial and Early Federal America. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include the Puritan Aesthetic, the Influence of English Art, the Rise of Native-born Talent, and the Work of Such Artists as Copley and Peale.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 812 Studies in American Painting: 1800-1875 3
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Neoclassicism, Romanticism and the Grand Manner in the Art of West, Trumbull, Allston and Vanderlyn, Landscape and Genre Painting in the Work of Cole, Durand, Mount and the Hudson River School.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 850 Bibliography and Research Methods in Art History 0 PF
An introduction to the art historical resources of the University of Delaware and to the techniques of scholarly research and bibliographical materials in the historical study of the visual arts.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered every Fall semester.
ARTH 860 Reading and Research 1-9 PF
Readings and conferences on an approved subject under faculty direction.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of Department Chair. Open to Art History Ph.D. students only.
ARTH 869 Master's Thesis 1-6
ARTH 964 Pre-Candidacy Study 3-12 PF
Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
ARTH 969 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 PF
UNIV 899 Master's Sustaining: Thesis 0 PF
UNIV 999 Doctoral Sustaining 0 PF
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