Week 1	M A 31	Lecture 1	Introduction to the Course What is the History of Art?
		Readings:	Gardner, 3-19
	W S 2	Lecture 2	Paleolithic and Neolithic Art
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 1, 26-39; Wren and Wren, Joshua 6, 1-3
	F S 4	Lecture 3	Ancient Near East I
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 2, 42-63; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Gilgamesh, The King's List, The Code of Hammurabi, The Deeds of Sargon II, My City Babylon, 3-18

TUTORIALS DO NOT MEET THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES.

Week 2	M S 7	NO CLASS. LABOR DAY
	W S 9	Lecture 4	Ancient Near East II
		Readings:	see lecture 3
	F S 11	Lecture 5	Egyptian Art I
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 3, 66-97; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Hymn to the Nile, The Pyramid Texts, The Book of the Dead, The Triumph of Horus, The Royal Account of the Life of Queen Hatshepsut, and Hynm to Aten, 20-44

Tutorial Topic 1: Near Eastern Narrative Reliefs. Religion and Politics

Week 3	M S 14	Lecture 6	Egyptian Art II
		Readings:	see lecture 5
	W S 16	Lecture 7	Aegean Art
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 4, 100-15; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Diodorus of Sicily and Apollodorus, Linear B Texts, 52-56
	F S 18	EXAM #1:	Paleolithic through Aegean Art

 

Tutorial Topic 2: Egyptian Afterlife. Tombs and Temples

Week 4	M S 21	Lecture 8	Greek Geometic, Orientalizing and Archaic Periods
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 5, 118-133; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Homer, Sappho, Aristotle, and Herodotus, 61- 71
	W S 23	Lecture 9	Greek Archaic Period
		Readings:	see lecture 8
	F S 25	Lecture 10	Greek Classical Period
		Readings:	Gardner, 137-147; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Parmenides, Plato, Hippocratic Writings, and Sophocles, 71- 78.

Tutorial Topic 3: Greek Vase Painting.
Meet at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Week 5	M S 28	Lecture 11	Periclean Athens and the Acropolis
		Readings:	Gardner, 147-158; Wren and Wren, excerpts from the History of the Peloponnesian War, The Eumenides, Andromache and The Trojan Women and Lysistrata, 81-93.
	W S 30	Lecture 12	Greek Fourth Century
		Readings:	Gardner, 161-171; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Plato, Aristotle, and Neo-Pythagorean Text, 93-101
	F O 2	Lecture 13	Greek Hellenism
		Readings:	Gardner, 171-183; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Diogenes Laertius and Virgil, 101-107

 

Tutorial Topic 4: The Panathenic Procession: Architecture, Sculpture and Space

Week 6	M 0 5	Lecture 14	Etruscan Period
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 6, 186-197; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Livy, 108-110
	W 0 7	Lecture 15	The Roman Republic and Early Empire Periods
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 7, 200-206, 216-227; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Livy, Cato, Cicero and Augustus, 113- 125
	F O 9	Lecture 16	Roman Architecture I
		Readings:	Gardner, 227-251
		FIRST PAPER DUE

Tutorial Topic 5: Greek and Roman Sculpture: The Human Figure

Week 7	M 0 12	Lecture 17	Roman Architecture II
		Readings:	see lecture 16
	W 0 14	Lecture 18	Roman Sculpture
		Readings:	Gardner, reread 225-227, 228-230, 238-242; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Josephus and Tacitus, 133-140
	F 0 16	Lecture 19	Roman Painting
		Readings:	Gardner, 209-217

Tutorial Topic 6: Roman Engineering and Building Techniques

Week 8	M 0 19	MIDTERM RECESS
	W 0 21	Lecture 20	The Late Empire. Constantine
		Readings:	Gardner, chapter 7, 251-255.
	F 0 23	EXAM #2

Tutorial Topic 7: Transformation of Classical Visual Language: The Arch of Constantine

Week 9	M 0 26	Lecture 21	Early Christian Death and Salvation
	W 0 28	Lecture 22	Early Christian Architecture
	F O 30	Lecture 23	.Early Christian Images. Narrative and Symbol
		Readings:	Gardner, 258-270; Wren and Wren, excerpts from Minucius Felix, Attrocities of the Christians, Eusebius, Luke, Prudentius and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, 148-159.

 

Tutorial Topic 8: The Iconography of Early Christian Art

Week 10	M N 2	Lecture 24	Byzantine Art Under Justinian: The Hagia Sophia
	W N 4	Lecture 25	Ravenna
	F N 6	Lecture 26	Icon and Iconoclasm. The Second Golden Age of Byzantine Art and Architecture
		Readings:	Gardner, 270-279, 286-317. Wren and Wren, Procopius, The Nika Revolt and The Secret History, 168- 171.

Tutorial Topic 9: Byzantine Icons
Tutorials meet at Menil Collection

Week 11	M N 9	Lecture 27	Art of Islam
		Readings:
	W N 11	Lecture 28	Art of the Migrations
	F N 13	Lecture 29	Charlemagne and the Carolingians: The Idea of Renovatio
		Readings:	Gardner, 346-377; Wren and Wren, Beowulf, The Battle Between Beowulf and Grendel's Mother, 187-189; Notker the Stammerer, Charlemagne. The Visit of the Byzantine Envoys, 197-199.

  

Tutorial Topic 10: Carolingian Church Reform and Architecture

Week 12	M N 16	EXAM #3
	W N 18	Lecture 30	The Pilgrimage Road
	F N 20	Lecture 31	Romanesque Sculpture
		Readings:	Gardner, 370-377, 380-413. Wren and Wren, The Pilgrimage Guide to Santiago de Compostela, 214-217; Urban II, speech delivered at the Council of Clermont.

Tutorial Topic 11: The Romanesque Portal. Text and Image

Week 13	M N 23	Lecture 32	Monastic Reform: The Cluniacs and the Cistercians
	W N 25	Lecture 33	Gothic Architecture. The Beginnnings. Abbot Suger and Saint Denis
	F N 27	THANKSGIVING RECESS
		Readings:	Wren and Wren, The Rule of St. Benedict, 204-206; Suger, On the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures, 241-242; Bernard of Clairvaux, Song of Songs, 242-243.

Tutorial Topic: NO TUTORIALS

Week 14	M N 30	Lecture 34	French Gothic Architecture. The High Gothic Cathedral of Chartres.
	W D 2	Lecture 35	French Gothic Architecture. French Gothic Architecture. Rayonnant and Flamboyant.
	F D 4	Lecture 36	Gothic Sculpture
		SECOND PAPER DUE
		Readings:	Gardner, 416-445.

Tutorial Topic 12: Comparison of Romanesque and Gothic Architecture

Week 15	M D 7	Lecture 37	The Romanesque and Gothic Imagery
	W D 9	Lecture 38	Non-French Gothic Architecture
		Readings:	Gardner, 445-461.

Tutorial Topic 13: Gothic Sculpture. The Human Figure.

Final Exam Week 

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