ART 331 - Seminar in Northern Art

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2015/16a: Johannes Vermeer of Delft. Recent research on Johannes Vermeer has produced a sharper and more nuanced understanding of how the artist worked and what his paintings conveyed to viewers of his time. Through evaluating the wide range of scholarly approaches that have been applied to Vermeer, the seminar examines his interpretive and technical development as an artist, explores how he relates to and diverges from other major genre painters of the same period, and considers how his thematic choices reflect ways of thinking that developed in the Dutch Republic during the Age of Observation. Ms. Kuretsky.

Prerequisite: permission of the instructor

One 2-hour period.