Art Stud 100: The Visual Arts of the West from their Beginnings to the High Renaissance

Dear comrades in Art History epicness,

Below is the scope to be covered:

Unit 1: Art before History
1.1 Paleolithic and Mesolithic Art
     1.1.1 The Earliest Art Objects
     1.1.2 Cave Art in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Periods
1.2 Neolithic Art
     1.2.1 Neolithic Europe
     1.2.2 Neolithic Middle East

Unit 2: Art of the Ancient Middle East
2.1 Sumer
2.2 Akkad, Lagash, and Babylon
2.3 Assyria
2.4 Neo-Babylonia
2.5 Persia

Unit 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
3.1 Early Dynastic Egypt
3.2 Old Kingdom Egypt
3.3 Middle Kingdom Egypt
3.4 New Kingdom Egypt
3.5 The Amarna Period
3.6 Ramses II and Late Egyptian Art

Unit 4: Ancient Art of the Classical World
4.1 Aegean Art
     4.1.1 Minoan and Cycladic Art
     4.1.2 Mycenaean
4.2 Ancient Greece
     4.2.1 The Geometric Period
     4.2.2 The Archaic Period
     4.2.3 The Classical Period
          4.2.3.1 Classical Sculpture and Painting
          4.2.3.2 Classical Athens
          4.2.3.3 Late Classical
     4.2.4 The Hellenistic Period
4.3 Etruscan Art
4.4 Roman Art
     4.4.1 The Roman Republic
     4.4.2 Augustan Rome
     4.4.3 Art from Flavian to Trajan
     4.4.4 Art from Hadrian to Commodus
     4.4.5 Pompeii
     4.4.6 Late Roman Art

Unit 5: Medieval Art
5.1 Early Christian Art
     5.1.1 Early Christian Monuments
     5.1.2 Christian Art under Emperor Constantine
5.2 Byzantine Art
5.3 Islamic Art
5.4 Early Medieval Europe
     5.4.1 Hiberno-Saxon and Viking Art
     5.4.2 Carolingian Art and Medieval Spain
     5.4.3 Ottonian Art
5.5 Romanesque Europe
5.6 Gothic Europe

Unit 6: The Proto-Renaissance In Italy: 13th Century

Unit 7: The Early Renaissance outside Italy - Fifteenth Century
7.1 Burgundy: the Low Countries FILM: Northern Renaissance: The Supreme Art
7.2 France, Germany (Holy Roman Empire)

Unit 8: The Renaissance: Fifteenth Century Italian Art
8.1 Painters and Sculptors Based in Florence
8.2 Florentine Architects
8.3 Several Painters outside Florence

Unit 9: The Later Renaissance - Sixteenth Century Italian Art
9.1 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
9.2 Mannerism in Florence and Rome
9.3 Venice

Unit 10: Sixteenth Century outside Italy
10.1 German Painters
10.2 Painting in Flanders and Holland
10.3 France and Spain

xoxo,
Sofia