Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art: Era of Impressionism October 6, 2010

Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Director of the Pforzheimer Honors College, Pace University.

Art History 201 offers insight into global masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting created from prehistory to our own day. This fall, the artistic styles known as Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau in Western Europe (approximately 1800 to 1900) are studied and compared with contemporaneous creations throughout the world. Nineteenth-century marvels range from a chocolate factory in France, to sculpture in Africa, to Fabergé's exquisite eggs in Russia, to a palace in Thailand.

This Week's Topic:

October 6
Romanticism: Revivals in Architecture and Sculpture; Géricault in France, to Turner in England, to Goya in Spain; Decorative Arts in Iran; Woodblock Prints in Edo Japan; San Francisco de Asis in New Mexico

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