Course overview
This online course examines Northern Renaissance art, with a focus on the visual traditions of Flanders and the Netherlands (`Low Countries), Germany, Switzerland, and France during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The invention of the printing press, impact of the Protestant Reformation, and encounters with the Italian Renaissance art and artists, patrons, and humanists provides an artistic, social, political, and economic framework for interpreting and contextualising the vivid material culture of the Northern Renaissance in reference to innovations in production methods, patronage and collecting activities, and development of novel sacred and secular themes and genres.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of innovations in the visual arts during the Northern Renaissance.
- Formally analyse works of art using discipline-specific terminology.
- Use appropriate digital technologies and tools for research.
- Interpret and evaluate a variety of primary and secondary sources, including images and objects.
- Work independently and cooperatively in small group discussion and problem solving.
- Articulate insightful research questions in both verbal and written modes of expression persuasively.