History of Art 260	Prof. Larry Silver


	Northern Renaissance Art

	Required Texts: James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art (Prentice-Hall)
		Walter Gibson, Hieronymus Bosch (Thames and Hudson, paper)
		Walter Gibson, Bruegel (Thames and Hudson, paper)
		Eugene Rice and Anthony Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern 
		Europe (Norton, paper)

Syllabus and Schedule of Topics:

I. Vision and Visions - Late Medieval Piety

	A. Piety and Magnificence at Courts
		1. Prague
		Reading: Snyder, Chapters 1-2

		2. France and England
		    a. Berry
		    b. Burgundy
 		    c. Paris and London
		Reading: Snyder, Chapter 3
	
	B. Urban Devotions - Germany
		1. Hamburg - Master Bertram, Master Francke
		2. Cologne - Stefan Lochner
		Reading: Snyder, Chapters 4, 11

	C. Jan van Eyck
	     Reading: Snyder, Chapter 5

	D. Campin and van der Weyden
	     Reading: Snyder, Chapter 6

	E. Devotional Aids - Retables, Prints, and Sculptures
	     1. Hospitals
	     2. Pilgrimage Sites
	     3. Indulgences and Miracles
	     4. "Family Values"
	Reading: Snyder, Chapters 14-15; Recommended: Chapters 7-9, 12

MID-TERM EXAMINATION

II. Individual Innovation

	A. Hieronymus Bosch
	Reading: Snyder, Chapter 10; Gibson, Hieronymus Bosch

	B. Albrecht Durer
	Reading: Snyder, Chapter 16; Recommended: Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Durer

	C. Dialogue with Durer - Renaissance
	Reading: Snyder, Chapters 17-19

	D. Dialogue with Durer - Reformation
	Reading: Snyder, Chapters 19-20

III. Real vs. Ideal in the Netherlands

	A. Capitalism and the Rise of Genres
	Reading: Snyder, Chapters 21-22
		Recommended: Walter Gibson, Mirror of the Earth

	B. Dialogue with Italy - "Romanism"
	Reading: Snyder, Chapter 25

	C. Lucas van Leyden
	Reading: Snyder, Chapters 23-24 

	D. Pieter Bruegel
	Reading: Snyder, Chapter 26; Gibson, Bruegel

Course Written Requirements: 

	Either: 1) two short papers, based on looking assignments at the 
Philadelphia Museum of Art    OR 2) the first short paper; combined with 
an approved term paper on subject discussed with instructor (student must 
make a case for special interest in a topic).

Nota bene: The Philadelphia Museum of Art will have an important 
exhibition of fifteenth-century Flemish pictures around its own Jan van 
Eyck panel on view during the months April-May.