AA315 sample study calendar

Study 
Week(s)

What you will study

1

Making Renaissance Art

Course Guide – read this first!
Study Guide 1
Study text: Book 1 Introduction
Study text: Book 1 Chapter 1 - Drawing and workshop practices 
Other resources: DVD-Rom – Exploring the Seilern altarpece

2

Study Guide 1
Study text: Book 1 Chapter 2 - Constructing space in Renaissance painting
Other resources: DVD-Rom – Constructing space
DVD 1:1 – Walls of colour
DVD 1:2 – The Piero Trail

3

Study Guide 1
Study text: Book 1 Chapter 3 - The illusion of life in fifteenth-century sculpture 
Other resources: DVD-Rom – Bronze casting
DVD 1:3 – Introducing a Netherlandish carved wooden altarpiece 

4

Study Guide 1
Study text: Book 1 Chapter 4 - Architecture: theory and practice 
Online resource - Architecture
Other resources: DVD 1:4 – Milan Cathedral
DVD 1:5 – Santo Spirito: a Renaissance church

5

Study Text: Book 1, Chapter 5 – Making Renaissance altarpieces
Other resources: DVD-Rom – Panel painting

6

Study text: Book 1, Chapter 6 – The printed picture in the Renaissance
Study Guide 1
Other resources: DVD 1:6 – The genius of Dürer: Albrecht Dürer – printmaker and painter

7

Study text: Book 1, Chapter 7 – Making histories, publishing theories
Independent Essay
Study Guide 1

8

Study week
Assignment 01

9

Locating Renaissance Art

Study text:  Book 2 Introduction and Chapter 1 – The allure of Rome
Study Guide 2
Other resources: DVD2:1 – San Marco: a Dominican priory, DVD2:2 – Making and meaning: the young Michelangela: DVD2:6 – Raphael: Urbino to Rome

10

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 2 – Netherlandish networks
Study Guide 2

11

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 3 – Tapestries as a transnational artistic commodity
Study Guide 2
Other resources: DVD2:3 – The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries

12

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 4 – Siena and fits Renaissance
Study Guide 2
Other resources: DVD2:4 – Pienza: a Renaissance city

13

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 5 – The painter Angelos and post-Byzantine art
Study Guide 2
Other resources: DVD2:5 – Mother of God: representations of the Virgin in Byzantine art

14

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 6 – Art in fifteenth-century Venice: ‘an aesthetic of diversity’
Study Guide 2

15

Study text: Book 2, Chapter 7 – Bramante and the sources of the Roman High Renaissance
Study Guide 2
Other resources: DVD2:7 – San Bernardino degli Zoccolanti, Urbino; DVD2:8 – Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

16

Study week
Assignment 02

17

Viewing Renaissance Art

Study text: Book 3 Introduction and Chapter 1 – Art, class and wealth
Study Guide 3

18

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 2 – Florentine art and the public good
Study Guide 3

19

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 3 – Renaissance bibliomania
Study Guide 3
Other resources: DVD3:1 – Two Renaissance manuscripts; online – Making art: Medieval manuscripts (Fitzwilliam Museum website)

20

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 4 – Monarchy and prestige in France
Study Guide 3

21

Study week 
Study Guide 3
Other resources: CD – Devising a successful independent essay 
Assignment 03

22

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 5 – Audiences and markets for Cretan icons
Study Guide 3
Other resources: DVD2:5 – Mother of God: representations of the Virgin in Byzantine art (optional second viewing

23

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 6 – Art and death
Study Guide 3
Other resources: DVD3:2 – Gothic: dart for England 1400–1547

24

Study text: Book 3, Chapter 7 – Holbein and the reform of images
Study Guide 3
Other resources: DVD3:3 – Making and meaning: Holbein’s Ambassadors

25

Study Week
Assignment 04

26–31

Work on Assignment 05 
Independent essay 
(End-of-module assessment)