Italian Art and Artists

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This interdisciplinary course examines the lives and works of artists including Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Benvenuto Cellini, Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi. A variety of works (poetry, prose, painting and sculpture) will be studied against the backdrop of the crisis of the Italian Renaissance. We will look closely at Counterreformation intellectual debates, religious dissent and persecution. Class meetings will be complemented by guest speakers and trips to local museums.