Lectures will follow the sequence of chapters in your Snyder text. Please read the relevent chapter prior to class so that you can participate in discussion.

Jan. 20 General Introduction (Materials, Techniques, Guilds)

Jan. 25 (Chapter 1) Bohemia

Jan. 27 (Chapter 2) The Valois Courts & the Low Countries

Feb. 1 (Chapter 3) Germany

Feb. 3(Chapter 4) Rhineland

Feb. 8 (Chapter 5) Van Eyck

Feb. 10 (Chapter 6) Campin

Feb. 15 (Chapter 6) Rogier

Feb. 18 (Chapter 7) Flanders at mid-century

Feb. 22 (Chapter 7) Flanders at mid-century

Feb. 24(Chapter 7) Flanders at mid-century

Mar. 1 (Chapter 8) Van der Goes

Mar. 3 (Chapter 9) Northern Netherlands

Mar. 8 (Chapter 10) Bruges

Mar.11 (Chapter 10) Bruges

Mar. 15 MIDTERM.

Mar. 17 Zoutleeuw

SPRING BREAK

Mar. 29 (Chapter 12) Late 15th-century German, printmaking

Mar. 31 (Chapter 12) Late 15th-century German, Grünewald

Apr. 5 (Chapter 13) Dürer

Apr. 7 (Chapter 14) Responses to Dürer

Apr. 12 (Chapter 14) Responses to Dürer

Apr. 14 (Chapter 15) Augsburg & Basel

Apr. 19 (Chapter 16) Bosch

Apr. 21 (Chapter 17) Northern Netherlands

Apr. 26 (Chapter 18) Antwerp

Apr. 28 Larry Silver visiting lecturer

May 3 (Chapter 19) Flemish Renaissance Courts

May 5 (Chapter 20) Antwerp, Aertsen & Beuckelaer

May 10 (Chapter 21) Northern Renaissance

May 12 (Chapter 22) Bruegel

Written projects are due last day of class (May 12)

FINAL EXAM: Monday May 16 11:00 - 12:00 (Our full exam period is 10:30-1:00)

READINGS ON RESERVE: there will be several texts and articles placed on reserve in the art & architecture library (one flight down from our classroom)

Required articles on electronic reserve may be retrieved here: http://eres.lib.ku.edu/courseindex.asp The article currently on e-reserve are:

Hayum, Andree, "The Meaning and Function of the Isenheim Altarpiece: the Hospital Context," pp. 501-18.
Silver, Lawrence, "Forest Primeval: Albrecht Altdorfer and the German Wilderness Landscape," pp. 4-43.
Carroll, Margaret D., "Peasant Festivity and Political Identity in the Sixteenth Century," pp. 289-314.
Gibson, Walter S., "Artists and Rederijkers in the Age of Bruegel," pp. 426-46.

Please read in the following as well:

Gibson, Walter S. Hieronymus Bosch. London, 1973.
Gibson, Walter S. Pieter Bruegel. New York, 1975.

Exams: There will be a mid-term and a final exam. Exams will include short answer questions (identify a work that is projected and discuss its salient characteristics) and multiple choice questions. The final will not be comprehensive.

Written Assignments: Undergraduates will be assigned a short writing exercise that will concern a work of art you can see in the Spencer Museum of Art of in the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City. Graduate students will write a research paper. We will discuss the details in class.

Grades: To do well in this class you must attend class and do the assigned readings. Your final grade will be an average of your two exams and your written assignment. If you participate in classroom discussion I will round your grade up five points.

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