ARTH 268 - Empathy in Renaissance and Baroque Art

3 Hour(s)

A course taught using works from Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art. Students will focus on the development of skills of empathy, as students learn to ‘read’ the visual storytelling of the past. The history of art concerns itself with the representation of the great stories of Western and other civilizations, from the Bible, myth and history. These visual stories cover the full range of human experience: they express a vast range of deeply human emotions and themes. Art is about joy, love, sorrow, fear, pride, hope, despair, ecstasy, anger, surprise; about power, triumph, generosity, conflict, faith, spirituality, heroism, domesticity. The main question for this course: how do artists express these deeply human feelings-and how can we recognize and share them when we see them in works of art?

General Education Requirements: Arts
Cross-Listed with HHMN 268