ARTH-516 Northern Renaissance Art: Texts and Contexts

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Explores key approaches in the scholarship on northern European art, c. 1375-1550, by investigating patronage in court, urban, and monastic contexts; workshop practices; church contexts and devotional images; the rise of portraiture; the development of printmaking; and the relationship of the arts to gender, sexuality, and race. Usually offered alternate springs. May be taken A-F only. Prerequisite: five art history courses.