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FALL 2019 HCOL 185
LEONARDO DA VINCI: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
University Heights North 1-119 (Multipurpose Room), MWF 10:50-11:40am
Instructor:StephanieGlickman [email protected]
OfficeHours:MTh3:00-4:00pm,and byappointment(408WilliamsHall)
CourseDescription
In2019,museumsworldwidemarkedthe500thanniversaryofLeonardodaVinci’sdeathwithspecialexhibitionscelebratinghisartisticandscientificachievements.Inthiscourse,wewillexaminetherelationshipbetweenartandscienceintheRenaissance,withspecialemphasisonart’sintellectualunderpinningsinItalyandintheworksandnotebooksofLeonardodaVinci(1452-1519).Whilewemayoftenthinkofartandscienceasseparatedomains,Renaissanceartistsandintellectualsappreciatedtheirinterdependence.Inthe15thand16thcenturies,Renaissance‘artist-scientists’masteredtechniquesofnaturalisticrepresentationthatlentauthority,credibility,andasenseofobjectivitytodepictionsofthenaturalworld.EmpiricalstudyofnatureandnaturalhistoryalsofosteredpracticesofRenaissanceartproductionandscientificillustration,andtransformedfieldssuchasgeography,astronomy,biology,andbotany.
Inthiscourse,wewillexplorehowthepracticesofartandsciencedependedonandinformedoneanotherinRenaissanceEurope.Wewillexaminedrawings,paintings,andprintsinrelationtonumerousissuessurroundingthereproductionanddisseminationofvisualinformation.Keythemeswillinclude:Renaissanceconceptionsofartasaformofscientia(knowledge);Renaissancenaturalism;technologicalinnovationsinimageproduction(e.g.,printmaking);theroleofrepresentationinscientificinvestigations;andtheprerogatives,practices,andpatronageofartist-scientistsintheRenaissance.ThiscoursemeetsthecriteriaforelectivecreditintheCollegeofArtsandSciences.CourseLearningObjectives
Bytheendofthecourse,studentswill:- recognizeregionalstylesandfunctionsofNorthernandSouthernRenaissanceart- masterfundamentalconceptsandessentialterminologypertainingtothemedia,
materials,techniques,content,andcontextsofRenaissanceartandscientificillustration
- demonstrateanunderstandingoftherelationshipbetweenimageproductionandknowledgeproduction,invarioussocial,political,economic,and/orreligiouscontexts
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- honeresearch,writing,speaking,andcriticalthinkingskillsinthecourseofdevelopinganindependentresearchproject
- evaluateandengagewithprimarysourcesandadvancedscholarshiponRenaissanceartandscience,andreflectonthenatureof‘visualinformation’inthepastandpresent
RequiredCourseMaterials
Textbook:LeonardodaVinci,Notebooks(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2008).AvailableforpurchaseattheUVMbookstore,andonreserveatthelibrary.
Blackboard:AllotherrequiredreadingsforthecoursearepostedonBlackboard.
RecommendedReading:PrintsandthePursuitofKnowledgeinEarlyModernEurope(2011),onreserveatthelibrary.
RecommendedReading:SylvanBarnet,AShortGuidetoWritingAboutArt.Anyedition.AusefulexcerptispostedonBlackboard.GradingCriteria
AttendanceandParticipation(inclassandonline) 10%GroupPresentationandDiscussionBoard(threetotal) 30%ResearchProject:
Assignment1 10%Assignment2 10% Presentation 15%ResearchPaper(10-12pp) 25%
*Lateassignmentswillbedeductedone-halflettergradepercalendardaylate(e.g.,AtoA-).GradingScale
A+ 100-98% B+ 89-87% C+ 79-77% D+ 69-67% F below60%A 97-93% B 86-83% C 76-73% D 66-63%A- 92-90% B- 82-80% C- 72-70% D- 62-60% AttendanceandParticipation
Attendanceandparticipationare10%ofthecoursegrade,andareassessedviain-classandonlineactivities.Ifastudentmustmissclasswithreasonablecause,itisthestudent’sresponsibilitytocontacttheInstructorinadvance,toreceiveinstructionforhowtomakeupforthemissedclass.Reasonablecausetomissaclassmightinclude:personalillness,familyillness,orreligiousobservance.
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Assignments
Instructionsforassignmentsareprovidedseparately.CourseEvaluation
Attheendofthesemester,allstudentsareexpectedtocompleteanevaluationofthecourse.Courseevaluationsareanonymousandconfidential,andtheinformationgained(includingconstructivecriticisms)willbeusedtoimprovethecourse.
SUMMARYOFDUEDATES
SEPT13 GROUPPRESENTATION;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
OCT4 GROUPPRESENTATION;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
OCT18 ASSIGNMENT#1dueby11:59pm
NOV1 GROUPPRESENTATION;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
[NOV4] [Informalpresentationandclassdiscussionofresearchprojects]
NOV22 ASSIGNMENT#2dueby11:59pm
DEC4-9 PRESENTATIONSofresearchprojects
DEC10 RESEARCHPAPERdueby11:59pm
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Itismyexpectationthatyouwilldoeverythingyoucantooptimizeyourlearningandtofullyparticipateinthiscourse.
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SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Week1Introduction
Aug26-30 • • • LaurieSchneiderAdams,ItalianRenaissanceArt(Boulder,CO:
WestviewPress,2001),292-306.
Week2TheLifeofLeonardodaVinci(1452-1519)
Sept2-6 Sept2LABORDAYHOLIDAY• LukeSyson,“TheRewardsofService:LeonardodaVinciandthe
DukeofMilan,”inLeonardodaVinci:PainterattheCourtofMilan,exh.cat.(London:NationalGallery,2011),13-23.
• “Preface”and“Introduction,”inNotebooks,v-viii,xiii-xxxiii.
Week3LeonardoasArtist-Scientist
Sept9-13 • PrimarySource:GiorgioVasari,“TheLifeofLeonardodaVinci,”inTheLivesoftheArtists(Oxford;NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2008),284-298.
• PrimarySource:LeonardodaVinci,“TrueScience,”inNotebooks,3-13.
• PrimarySource:LeonardodaVinci,“ComparisonoftheArts,”“ArchitecturalPlanning,”and“TheArtist’sLife,”inNotebooks,184-214.
• GROUPA:JamesAckerman,“EarlyRenaissance‘Naturalism’andScientificIllustration,”inDistancePoints:EssaysinTheoryandRenaissanceArtandArchitecture(Cambridge,MA:MITPress,1991),185-207.GROUPB:JamesAckerman,“TheInvolvementofArtistsinRenaissanceScience,”inScienceandtheArtsintheRenaissance(Washington,D.C.;London:FolgerShakespeareLibrary;AssociatedUniversityPresses,1985),94-128(seeespeciallypp.94-102).
• SEPT13 GROUPPRESENTATIONS;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
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Week4
Perspective,Vision,andCognition
Sept16-20 • PrimarySource:LeonBattistaAlberti,DedicationandBookOneofOnPainting,trans.CecilGrayson(London;NewYork:PenguinBooks,2004),34-59.
• PrimarySource:LeonardodaVinci,“TheEyeandtheAppearanceofThings”and“TheSurfaceofThingsandLight,”inNotebooks,102-137.
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Week5AnatomyandProportion
Sept23-27 • DomenicoLaurenza,“ArtandAnatomyinRenaissanceItaly:ImagesfromaScientificRevolution,”TheMetropolitanMuseumofArtBulletin69,no.3(Winter2012):4-48.
• LaurieSchneiderAdams,ItalianRenaissanceArt(Boulder,CO:WestviewPress,2001),312-321.
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Week6Mind,Body,andSpirit
Sept30-Oct4 • CatalogueentriesinPrintsandthePursuitofKnowledgeinEarlyModernEurope,exh.cat.,ed.SusanDackerman(Cambridge,MA:HarvardArtMuseums,2011).
• GROUPA:PrimarySource:LeonardodaVinci,“TheLifeandStructureofThings,”inNotebooks,137-167.
• GROUPB:PrimarySource:LeonardodaVinci,“TheExpressionoftheSpirit”and“Composition,”inNotebooks,167-184.
• OCT4 GROUPPRESENTATIONS;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
Week7
AlbrechtDürer(1471-1528)andtheInfluenceofItaly
Oct7-11 • JamesSnyder,“Chapter13,AlbrechtDürer,”inNorthernRenaissanceArt(UpperSaddleRiver,NJ:PrenticeHall,2005),303-333.
• PeterParshall,“GraphicKnowledge:AlbrechtDürerandtheImagination,”TheArtBulletin95,no.3(September2013):393-410.
• TBA
Week8PsychologyandMelancholy
Oct14-18 Oct14FALLRECESS
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• “AlbrechtDürer,MelencoliaI,”catalogueentryinPrintsandthePursuitofKnowledgeinEarlyModernEurope,exh.cat.,ed.SusanDackerman(Cambridge,MA:HarvardArtMuseums,2011),91-92.
• MariaRuvoldt,“Michelangelo’sDream,”TheArtBulletin85,no.1(March2003):86-113.
• TBADUEOCT18 ASSIGNMENT#1dueby11:59pm
Week9
ScienceandtheOccult:WitchcraftandWomen
Oct21-25 • LindaC.Hults,“InventingtheWitch,”inTheWitchasMuse:Art, Gender,andPowerinEarlyModernEurope(Philadelphia:University ofPennsylvaniaPress,2005),57-108.
• SuzanneKarrSchmidt,“RenaissanceWomenonTop”(ARTicle).• CharlesZika,“Dürer’switch,ridingwomenandmoralorder,”in
Dürerandhisculture,eds.EichbergerandZika(Cambridge;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998),118-140.
Week10
HieronymusBosch,Illness,andAlchemy
Oct28-Nov1 • JamesSnyder,“Chapter16,HieronymusBosch,”inNorthernRenaissanceArt(UpperSaddleRiver,NJ:PrenticeHall,2005),395-409.
• GROUPA:LaurindaDixon,“AnApothecary’sApotheosis:TheSt.AnthonyTriptych,”inBosch(London;NewYork:Phaidon,2003),175-198.
• GROUPB:LaurindaDixon,“TheCrucibleofGod:Bosch’sChemicalEpiphany,”inBosch(London;NewYork:Phaidon,2003),201-224.
• NOV1 GROUPPRESENTATIONS;DISCUSSIONBOARDdueby11:59pm
Week11
RenaissanceCartography
Nov4-8 NOV4Informalpresentationanddiscussionofresearchprojects
• DavidWoodward,“MappingtheWorld,”inEncounters:TheMeetingofAsiaandEurope,1500-1800,eds.AnnaJacksonandAminJaffer(London:Victoria&AlbertMuseum,2004),14-31.
• CatalogueentriesinPrintsandthePursuitofKnowledgeinEarlyModernEurope,exh.cat.,ed.SusanDackerman(Cambridge,MA:HarvardArtMuseums,2011).
• RichardL.KaganwithFernandoMarías,“ChapterOne,UrbsandCivitas,”inUrbanImagesoftheHispanicWorld,1493-1793(NewHaven;London:YaleUniversityPress,2000),1-18.
• LuciaNuti,“ThePerspectivePlaninthe16thCentury,”TheArtBulletin76,no.1(March1994):105-128.
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Week12
Mappinga‘NewWorld’
Nov11-15 • PrimarySource:AmerigoVespucci,MundusNovus(firstpublished1503).
• RichardL.KaganwithFernandoMarías,“SpainandAmerica:ACartographicEncounter?,”inUrbanImagesoftheHispanicWorld,1493-1793(NewHaven;London:YaleUniversityPress,2000),45-70.
• BarbaraE.Mundy,“MappingtheAztecCapital,”ImagoMundi50(1998):11-33.
Week13
TBA
Nov18-22 • TBA
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DUENOV22 ASSIGNMENT#2dueby11:59pm
Week14THANKSGIVINGRECESS
Nov25-29 ThanksgivingRecess
Week15
PRESENTATIONS
Dec2-6 • TBA
• PRESENTATIONS
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Week16
EXAMWEEK
Dec9 10:30am-1:15pm,PRESENTATIONS
DUEDEC10 RESEARCHPAPERdueby11:59pm