Nineteenth-Century Art and Architecture

Catalog description

A history of the major works of sculpture, architecture, and painting made in Europe from Napoleon to the First World War. In studying these monuments, equal emphasis will be placed on formal analysis and on contextual history. Students will be asked to identify particular works, to describe their basic elements, to distinguish those elements that characterize different styles, and to begin to explain the formal and historical reasons for these differences. Areas covered include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism.