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Special Topics: Women, Art and Culture in Italy
Study + Internship in Florence Program
Florence, Italy
Dates: 6/5/18 - 8/3/18
Special Topics: Women, Art and Culture in Italy
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: CEA CAPA Florence Center
Location: Florence, Italy
Primary Subject Area: Art History
Instruction in: English
Course Code: ARH336FLR
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Prerequisites: None
Additional Fee: $50.00
Additional Fee Description:This course requires payment of an additional fee to cover active learning components that are above and beyond typical course costs, such as site visits, entrance fees and other expenses.
DESCRIPTION
This course will explore the role and status of women in connection to Italian Art from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. After an introduction to key issues and theoretical approaches in the study of women in the arts, the course will proceed thematically and chronologically to explore what it meant to grow up female and what life was like for women from the late fourteenth century through the 1700s.
The course will proceed by analyzing depictions of women including saints, personifications and the Virgin Mary as well as female portraits and the nude--both by male and female artists. We will furthermore discuss the role that women played as art commissioners. Famous aristocrats will serve as illustrious examples of female art patronage through three centuries of art history: Isabella d'Este of Mantua (1474-1539), and women closely connected to the Medici court in Florence such as Eleonora da Toledo (1522-1562), Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694) and Anna Maria Luisa de'Medici (1667-1743).
We will finally consider the historical and social prerequisites for the appearance of female artists in history and the socio-cultural conditions these women had to live and work under. Exemplary figures like Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), Giulia Lama (1681-1747) as well as non-Italians Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) and Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) will be discussed in detail.
The course will proceed by analyzing depictions of women including saints, personifications and the Virgin Mary as well as female portraits and the nude--both by male and female artists. We will furthermore discuss the role that women played as art commissioners. Famous aristocrats will serve as illustrious examples of female art patronage through three centuries of art history: Isabella d'Este of Mantua (1474-1539), and women closely connected to the Medici court in Florence such as Eleonora da Toledo (1522-1562), Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694) and Anna Maria Luisa de'Medici (1667-1743).
We will finally consider the historical and social prerequisites for the appearance of female artists in history and the socio-cultural conditions these women had to live and work under. Exemplary figures like Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), Giulia Lama (1681-1747) as well as non-Italians Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) and Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) will be discussed in detail.