Early Art of the Netherlands: Introductory ((4 Credits))

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This course focuses on painting in the Netherlands. Students will consider formal characteristics and on-going iconographic concerns within the work of individual artists such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, etc. We will also investigate the intersection of visual culture with class, economics, politics, and gender resulting in an understanding of the socio-cultural context of the art of Northern Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.