Medieval & Byzantine Art.

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Investigation of premodern Christian ways of seeing as a strategy for navigating our hyper-visual age. After examining the earliest Christian art and architecture, we follow developments in Constantinople alongside the Celtic and Carolingian art of the medieval West. The maturity of these civilizations as expressed by Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic art then gives way to the limitation of images as emphasized by the medieval mystics who anticipate the Reformation. Attention is given not just to studying, but practicing ancient forms of Christian spirituality. Alternate years in Spring semester.