A History of European Art

📚 Course Lectures

1. Approaches to European Art – How to look: subject, style, context, emotion (30 min)

2. Carolingian and Ottonian Art – Manuscripts; Palatine Chapel; Bayeux Tapestry (30 min)

3. Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture – St. Étienne, St. Trophîme, pilgrimage roads (31 min)

4. Gothic Art in France – Notre-Dame, Chartres, Rouen, Saint-Maclou (29 min)

5. Gothic Art in Germany and Italy – Strasbourg, Pisa reliefs; Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto (29 min)

6. Giotto and the Arena Chapel – Part I – History, fresco method, Virgin & Christ cycles (30 min)

7. Giotto and the Arena Chapel – Part II – Power of narrative; rise of the “great artist” (29 min)

8. Duccio and the Maestà – Structure and meaning of Siena’s great altarpiece (31 min)

9. Sienese Art in the 14th Century – Simone Martini; Lorenzetti brothers; Palazzo Pubblico (32 min)

10. The Black Death and the International Style – Plague’s impact; rise of International Gothic (31 min)

11. Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence – Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, della Robbia (30 min)

12. Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence – Brunelleschi & Alberti innovations (29 min)

13. Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting – Linear perspective; Brancacci & Santa Maria Novella (30 min)

14. Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art – Arnolfini, Ghent Altarpiece; North vs. Italy (30 min)

15. Northern Renaissance Altarpieces – Campin, van der Weyden, van der Goes (29 min)

16. Piero della Francesca in Arezzo – Baptism, Resurrection, Legend of the True Cross (30 min)

17. Sandro Botticelli – Mars and Venus, religious imagery, lyrical style (30 min)

18. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini – Mantua frescoes; illusionism and Venetian color (30 min)

19. High Renaissance Painting in Venice – Bellini, Giorgione’s Pastoral Concert, Titian (31 min)

20. The High Renaissance – Leonardo da Vinci – Madonna of the Rocks, Mona Lisa, Last Supper (29 min)

21. The High Renaissance – Raphael – Madonnas, portraits, Vatican frescoes (30 min)

22. The High Renaissance – Michelangelo – Pietà, David, Sistine Ceiling (30 min)

23. Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art – Schongauer; Dürer’s synthesis (30 min)

24. Riemenschneider and Grünewald – Holy Blood Altarpiece; Isenheim Altarpiece (29 min)

25. Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century – Bosch, Patinir, Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden (30 min)

26. Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Icarus, Hunters in the Snow, Parable of the Blind (30 min)

27. Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo – Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Bronzino (30 min)

28. Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art – Correggio; Carracci academy; Farnese Gallery (31 min)

29. Caravaggio – Life, chiaroscuro, sacred realism and controversy (30 min)

30. Italian Baroque Painting in Rome – From Carracci & Caravaggio to Baroque revival (32 min)

31. Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Sculptures; St. Peter’s piazza; Baroque total art (29 min)

32. Peter Paul Rubens – Altarpieces; Marie de’ Medici cycle; portraits & landscapes (30 min)

33. Dutch Painting in the 17th Century – Genres and specialists: Hals to Vermeer (31 min)

34. Rembrandt – Religious works, portraits, self-portraits, etching mastery (30 min)

35. Poussin and Claude – The Allure of Rome – Classical landscapes and ideals (30 min)

36. Baroque Painting in Spain – El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo, Velázquez (29 min)

37. Louis XIV and Versailles – Architecture, gardens; Watteau and the Rococo transition (31 min)

38. French Art in the 18th Century – Chardin, Greuze, Boucher, Fragonard (30 min)

39. Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism – Houdon, David, Goya (30 min)

40. Romanticism in the 19th Century – Géricault, Delacroix, Constable, Turner (31 min)

41. Realism – From Daumier to Courbet – Social truth and modern life (32 min)

42. Manet and Monet – The Birth of Impressionism – Modernity and new vision (30 min)

43. Monet and Degas – Rouen series, water lilies; circus, ballet, café life (31 min)

44. Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne – Styles within Impressionism; key masterpieces (30 min)

45. Beyond Impressionism – From Seurat to Matisse – Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh; toward Fauvism (30 min)

46. Cubism and Early Modern Painting – Picasso, Braque, Matisse innovations (32 min)

47. Modern Sculpture – Rodin and Brancusi – Expression to minimal form (32 min)

48. Art between Two Wars – Kandinsky to Picasso – Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism (31 min)