Sources and Methods: The Renaissance Artist

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The artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari was the first to use the term "Renaissance" to describe the cultural movement that ran through Europe from approximately 1300-1550. Since then, countless historians in many fields have sought to make sense of the happenings in those centuries, many focusing on the era's chief protagonist: the Renaissance artist. In this class we will undertake a close study of the surviving documents of Renaissance art literature in an effort to understand better how the men and women of the Renaissance conceived of their time and their world. CR: Only open to students in the Honors Program.