Summer Courses

Art History: Early Gothic to High Renaissance

Credit hours:-- Contact hours: 45

Course # 22-1103 SR

Dept: Art and Design

Course Description: Beginning with the frescoes of the late 1200’s from the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, this course covers the most important artists of the 1300’s, 1400’s, and early 1500’s. Students are guided through the major artistic developments of these centuries from the spatial discoveries of Giotto, to the mathematical discovery of perspective, and on to the rebirth of interest in the classical world. The course covers historical and political events and analyzes their influence on the artistic production. Many class sessions are held on-site in museums and churches to enhance the in-class slide lectures.

Instructor:
Caterina Romei was born in Florence in 1960 and she has lived there her entire life. In 1986 she completed her Laurea in Art History at the University of Florence with a thesis on the history of the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence.

In addition to the courses she teaches for Santa Reparata International School of Art, she has taught art history for several foreign university programs and schools for foreigners in Florence, including Washington University, Goshen College, the Koinè School, the Emily School of Art and Design, and others. In 2004 she completed a specialized thesis in Museum Studies at the University of Florence, writing a thesis about visitors and copyists in the Uffizi during the late eighteenth century.