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Apr 18, 2024
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Goucher College 2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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VMC 320 - Venice: The Art of a Multicultural City (4 Cr.)
This course explores the visual and material culture of Renaissance Venice, a
multicultural city on the sea and a crossroads of world trade in the early modern
era. Through masterpieces of Venetian painting, sculpture, and architecture;
mosaics, glass, textiles, costume, furniture, book arts, and print culture; as well as
close readings of Venetian literature and historical documents, we will question
how images and objects both reflected and shaped Venetian society, perspectives
on the wider world, global exchange, civic and familial ideals, and notions of
individual and communal identity. Students will gain a familiarity with the visual
and literary traditions of a vibrant Renaissance city in the age of Bellini, Titian, and
Tintoretto, the legacy of Venetian painting in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the
role of Venetian visual culture in shaping the lure of Venice for modern painters
and poets from Turner, Sargent, and Whistler to Ruskin, James, and Calvino.
Prerequisite: any 100-level course in Humanities. Offered spring 2021. Oettinger.
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