• Dr. Adrienne DeAngelis
• Class Room: Somewhere over the rainbow...Rainbow 103 aka the Drawing Room
• Office: Rainbow 121
• Office Hours: By appointment.

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

Please note that the lecture schedule below is liable (nay, doomed) to change, but we will cover the material indicated. See the Current Academic Calendar for deadlines including adding, dropping, and withdrawing. A General Note on the Reading: You will read the entire book. Not everything in the book will be covered in class, but you will profit from the additional knowledge provided by your familiary with the entire text. Note also that at the end of every chapter is a "Chronological Overview." Please look this over as well.

Week One : Thursday, May 15

• Introduction to the Course Reading: the Introduction and Chapter 1.

  Discussed: Cave Painting, the concept of Prehistory

• The Birth of Art Reading: Chapter 1.
• The Ancient Near East Reading:: Chapter 2.

Babylon Today
Hallliburton Destroys Babylon
Current Situation for Ancient Art in Iraq

Week Two : May 20 and 22

• QUIZ ON THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S MATERIAL
• Egyptian Art Reading Chapter 3: 41-69.
• "Minos and the Heroes of Homer" Reading Chapter 4.
  Prehistoric art of Greece.
• Greece I Reading Chapter 5: 92-112. The Pre-Classical art of Greece.

Week Three : May 27 and 29

• QUIZ ON THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S MATERIAL
• Greece II Reading: Chapter 5: 112-151.
• "Italy Before the Romans" The Etruscans Reading: Chapter 6.
• Roman Art Reading: Chapter 7: 166-219.
  

Week Four : June 3 and 5

• QUIZ ON THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S MATERIAL
• "The Art of Late Antiquity" Reading: Chapter 8.
• "Rome in the East: The Art of Byzantium" Reading: Chapter 9.
• "In Praise of Allah: Art of the Islamic World" Reading: Chapter 10.
• "Europe After the Fall of Rome: Early Medieval Art in the West" Reading: Chapter 11.

Week Five : June 10 and 12

• QUIZ ON THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S MATERIAL
• "The Age of Pilgrimages: Romanesque Art" Reading: Chapter 12.
• "The Age of the Great Cathedrals: Gothic Art" Reading: Chapter 13.

Week Six : June 17 and 20

• "Gothic Art" Reading continue as above--or catch-up.
• Also, visit: Italian Painting of the 12th to Early 14th Centuries
• June 22 FINAL EXAM Given in class.

NO EARLY EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN

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