ARTH413
– Art in the Age of Exploration
Prof.
M—nica Dom’nguez
Torres
Seminar
Hours: Wednesday 3-6 pm
Seminar
Location: 325 Old College
Office Location: 308 Old College
Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1 pm
or by appointment
Email: monicadt@udel.edu
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This seminar discusses a variety of European images
and collections during the period generally called the "Age of
Exploration" (mid-15th century to the mid 17th century). Throughout the
course, we will discuss artistic representations of "exotic" lands
and peoples by renowned European artists, such as Albert DŸrer, Hans Burgkmair,
Jan Brueghel, Giovanni Tiepolo, and Pieter Paul Rubens. The last sessions will
address the integration of non-European artifacts to early modern collections.
This course satisfies the Arts & Science
writing requirement.
There
will be three main assignments throughout the term:
Essay review and discussion (25%)
The remaining 15% of the final grade would be
assessed taking into account attendance and class participation.
Sep 2 Introduction to the Course
Sep 9 A World of Mapping
Sep 16 Conceptualizations of Nature
Sep
23 New
"Things" in the European Market
Sep 30 Picturing the Savage
Oct 7 Race and Representation
Oct 14 Understanding
Foreign Religions
Oct 21 Allegories of the Continents
Oct 28 Performing the Other
Nov 4 The Wunderkammer
Nov 11 Visit to the Walters
Museum in Baltimore
Nov 18 Student presentations
Nov 25 Student presentations
Dec 2 Student presentations
List of
Readings
Sep 2: Introduction
to the course
á Grafton,
Anthony. ÒIntroduction,Ó in: New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of
Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1992, pp. 1-10.
á Fiorani,
Francesca. The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in
Renaissance Italy. New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2005, pp. 16-59.
Sep 16: Conceptualizations of Nature
á Lazzaro,
Claudia. ÒAnimals as Cultural Signs: A MediciÕs Menagerie in
the Grotto at CastelloÓ in: Reframing the Renaissance: Visual
Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650. Edited by Claire Farago.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 197-228.
Sep 23: New ÒThingsÓ
in the European Market
á Massing,
Jean Michel. ÒEarly European Images of America: The Ethnographic
ApproachÓ in: Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration.
Edited by J. A. Levenson. New Haven/Washington D.C.: Yale University Press,
National Gallery of Art, 1991, pp. 514-520.
á Sullivan,
Edward. ÒWondrous ObjectsÓ in: The Language of
Objects in the Art of the Americas. New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2007, pp. 1-30.
á Schreffler,
Michael. ÒVespucci Rediscovers America and the Pictorial Rhetoric
of Cannibalism,Ó Art History 28:3 (2005): 295-310.
á Gaudio,
Michael. ÒSavage
Marks. The Scriptive Techniques of Early Modern EthnographyÓ in: Engraving
the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2008, pp. 1-44
Oct 7: Race and
Representation
á Anonymous
(1587). ÒA Description of the Tupinamb‡Ó in: The
Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Robert M. Levine and
John J. Crocitti. Durham: Kuke University Press, 1999, pp. 25-32
á Parker
Brienen, Rebecca. ÒAlbert Eckhout's Paintings of the ÔWilde NatienÕ of
Brazil and AfricaÓ in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 53
(2003): 107-137.
Oct 14: Understanding
Foreign Religions
á MacCormack,
Sabine. ÒLimits of Understanding: Perceptions of Greco-Roman and
Amerindian Paganism in Early Modern EuropeÓ in: America in
European Consciousness, 1493-1750. Edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Chapel
Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture; University of North
Carolina Press, 1995, pp. 79-129.
Oct 21: Allegories of
the Continents
á Honour,
Hugh. ÒA
Land of AllegoryÓ in: New Golden Land: European Images of America from
the Discoveries to the Present Time. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975, pp. 84-117.
á Alpers,
Svetlana and Michael Baxandall. Tiepolo and the
Pictorial Intelligence. New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1996, pp. 101-166
á Mullaney,
Steven. ÒThe New World on Display: European Pageantry and the
Ritual Incorporation of the AmericasÓ in: New World of Wonders:
European Images of the Americas, 1492-1700. Edited by Rachel Doggett et
at.
Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library; University of Washington Press,
1992, pp. 105-113.
á Verberckmoes,
Johan. ÒParading
Hilarious Exotics in the Spanish Netherlands,Ó Nederlands
Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 53 (2003): 53-69.
á Kenseth,
Joy. The Age of the Marvelous. Hanover,
NH: Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth College, 1991, pp. 24-59, 81-101
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