schedule
for daily readings and assignments, see the study-guides above
Tuesday 16 Jan
Introduction to the course
Thursday 18 Jan
The Rococo
Tuesday 23 Jan
The Enlightenment
Thursday 25 Jan
Modern Moral Subjects
Tuesday 30 Jan
The rise of Neoclassicism
Thursday 1 Feb
David and his patrons
Tuesday 6 Feb
David and his patrons continued
Thursday 8 Feb
Napoleon and the arts
Tuesday 13 Feb
How to make a history painting
Thursday 15 Feb
Romanticism
Tuesday 20 Feb
Landscape painting: historical, picturesque, and sublime
Thursday 22 Feb
Landscape painting continued
Tuesday 27 Feb
Catch up; museum paper 1 due
Thursday 29 Feb
Museum presentations; review for Exam 1
Tuesday 5 Mar
Exam 1
Thursday 7 Mar
Realism
11-15 March
Spring Break Holiday
Tuesday 19 March
Academic art and Orientalism
Thursday 21 March
Orientalism cont'd, Nineteenth-century exhibitions
Tuesday 26 March
Nineteenth-century exhibitions cont'd
Thursday 28 March
Edouard Manet
Tuesday 2 April
Art in Victorian Britain
Thursday 4 April
Early photography
Tuesday 9 April
Impressionism & light
Thursday 11 April
Impressionism & light >> Impressionism & society
Tuesday 16 April
Impressionism & society
Thursday 18 April
Women artists in the 19th century
Tuesday 23 April
Catch up; museum paper 2 due
Thursday 25 April
Museum presentations; review for Exam 2
Thursday 2 May 2:00-3:30
Exam 2