A consideration of the visual arts in the Western tradition. Emphasis will be placed on historical and critical analysis of key monuments and on the prerequisite technology, as well as on various ways of looking at the visual past and present. Focus will be on the visual arts from prehistory through the Middle Ages.

A continuation of 03-151 with particular emphasis on the visual arts from the Renaissance to today.

An investigation of architectural form and content from 1400 in Italy to the present with emphasis on the major historical figures from Michelangelo to the leading contemporary practitioners. Consideration will be given to the role of architecture in the shaping of our visual consciousness and to its central importance in the development of urban centres from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Canada including Guelph.

An introduction to historic and contemporary theories of art and art criticism. (Offered in odd-numbered years).

The visual arts in Canada from its indigenous traditions to the present.

Christian art from the Peace of the Church to the end of the Ottonian period. (Offered in odd-numbered years.)

Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy from the late 13th century to the late 15th century, with emphasis on Florence.

The visual arts in the Low Countries, the German territories, and England in the 14th and 15th centuries, with emphasis on the major Netherlandish painters from Robert Campin to Hieronymus Bosch. (Offered in odd-numbered years.)

European painting, sculpture and photographic media from the turn of the century to 1945.

Western art from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. (Offered in even-numbered years.)

The visual arts in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, with emphasis on such major painters as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Johannes Vermeer.

The course will offer detailed study of examples from a spectrum of Canadian visual culture. The developing plurality of art practices, of technological media, of high and low cultural forms will be examined in the context of specifically Canadian social and historical conditions during the modern and post-modern periods. The primary emphasis will be on developments since 1940.

The study of the visual arts of the United States as part of the culture of that nation.

In conjunction with the London Semester, this course will survey the visual arts in England from the mid-18th century to the present. Visits to galleries, museums, libraries, studios, and other cultural institutions will supplement lectures and stress the experience of actual works of art.

Greek art and architecture from the Geometric to the end of the Hellenistic period.

An analysis of the visual arts of painting, sculpture, photographic media and non-traditional media from the end of World War II to the present. Selected artists of North America and Western Europe will be considered, as well as the institutions of the art world.

The art of Italy from the Early Republic to the end of the Imperial period of Rome with an emphasis in architecture, sculpture and painting.

Romanesque and Gothic art in Western Europe. (Offered in even-numbered years).

Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy from the late 15th century to the late 16th century, with emphasis on Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo.

The visual arts in the German territories, the Low Countries, and France in the 16th century, with emphasis on the painting and graphic arts of Albrecht Duerer and his contemporaries. (Offered in even-numbered years.)

Western painting, sculpture and architecture of the second half of the 19th century. (Offered in even-numbered years.)

Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, Spain and France from about 1600 to the mid-18th century, with emphasis on Caravaggio and Bernini, Velasquez and the Tiepolo.

Introduction to the identification and critique of those traditional perspectives in art that have represented or misrepresented women and women's experience, followed by selected studies of artworks and texts by women throughout history.

Selected topics in Canadian Art. (Offered in odd-numbered years.)

Selected topics of the period. (Offered in odd-numbered years).

Selected topics of the period.

Selected topics of the period.

Selected topics on the painter and his school.

Selected topics of the period. (Offered in odd-numbered years.)

Selected topics of the period.

Each student establishes, in consultation with the faculty member chosen, the content of this special study within the area of expertise of that instructor.

This seminar course will be offered in conjunction with the staff and facilities of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and will deal with historical matters relating to the role of the art museum in western life and the critical day-to-day management of a contemporary one. Students will participate, when possible, in the preparation of a current or forthcoming exhibition in the Centre. (Offered in even-numbered years.)

Under the guidance of a faculty member over two semesters (03-485 in the first semester and 03-486 in the second semester), the honours student will research and complete a major independent project in art history or criticism for final approval by a department committee. Recommended for all honours students.

Continuation of 03-485.