Into the Light: Art in the Age of the Italian Renaissance 0181 February 13, 2009

Five classes, Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon, February 13, 20, 27, March 12, 19
Cost: $100
Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Registration Deadline: Friday, February 6

This course will attempt to create a context for artists and their works in Florence, Rome, Venice and outlying Ducal courts during a revolutionary period that heralded not only the rebirth of classical art but the birth of modern civilization. This course will also consider the important exchange of ideas between Italy and her neighbors to the north. Short readings including exerts from: Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, Leonardo on Painting, and Vasari’s Lives of the Artists will be provided as well as weekly slide lists and works consulted

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