ARTH 450IVT: Sex in Renaissance Art

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Pre-requisite(s): ARTH 1600, ARTH 1700 and ARTH 2080 with a “C-” or better in each, or permission of department Students in this course explore how the creation, commissioning, collection, and display of painting and sculpture from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries communicated shifting concepts of sex, sexuality, and gender in Western Europe. This course combines a close analysis of social theoretical texts with an examination of representations of sex, sexuality, and gender in Renaissance art and the use of sexualized and gendered images in early modern Europe. The course will also consider the historiographical trends in interpreting this visual material as well as the methodologies used within scholarly discourse.