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A History of European Art
(48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)

Taught by William Kloss
Independent Art Historian, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution
M.A., Oberlin College

 
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=7100&




Part 1

Disk 1
1. Approaches to European Art
2. Carolingian and Ottonian Art
3. Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture
4. Gothic Art in France
5. Gothic Art in Germany and Italy
6. Giotto and the Arena Chapel - Part I

Disk 2
7. Giotto and the Arena Chapel - Part II
8. Duccio and the Maeste
9. Sienese Art in the 14th Century
10. The Black Death and the International Style
11. Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence
12. Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence



Part 2

Disk 3
13. Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting
14. Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art
15. Northern Renaissance Altarpieces
16. Piero della Francesca in Arezzo
17. Sandro Botticelli
18. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini

Disk 4
19. High Renaissance Painting in Venice
20. The High Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci
21. The High Renaissance - Raphael
22. The High Renaissance - Michelangelo
23. Albrecht Durer and German Renaissance Art
24. Riemenschneider and Gronewald



Part 3

Disk 5
25. Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century
26. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
27. Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo
28. Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art
29. Caravaggio
30. Italian Baroque Painting in Rome

Disk 6
31. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
32. Peter Paul Rubens
33. Dutch Painting in the 17th Century
34. Rembrandt
35. Poussin and Claude - The Allure of Rome
36. Baroque Painting in Spain



Part 4

Disk 7
37. Louis XIV and Versailles
38. French Art in the 18th Century
39. Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism
40. Romanticism in the 19th Century
41. Realism - From Daumier to Courbet
42. Manet and Monet - The Birth of Impressionism

Disk 8
43. Monet and Degas
44. Renoir, Pissarro, and Cezanne
45. Beyond Impressionism - From Seurat to Matisse
46. Cubism and Early Modern Painting
47. Modern Sculpture - Rodin and Brancusi
48. Art between Two Wars - Kandinsky to Picasso