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Schedule
WEEK ONE:
WHAT IS THE RENAISSANCE?
DEFINITIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Mon Sept 5
"Introduction" (10:30 start time, after convocation)
Tues Sept 6
"Renaissance Objects: Interpreting the Crucifixion"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-1
· Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption, Chapter
3: "The Body of Christ in the Later Middle Ages: A Reply to Leo Steinberg"
(E-res)
· Paoletti + Radke (P+R), Intro (pp. 12-46)
>Writing Center visit from J. T. Poirier-9:00
a.m.
Wed Sept 7
"The Crucifixion and the Suffering Body"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-2
· Elaine Scarry, The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the
World, Chapter 1: "The Structure of Torture" (E-res)
· Anon. The York Crucifixion (E-res)
· P+R, Chapter 1 (pp. 47-55) and Chapter 4 (pp. 77-98)
· Henk van Os, "Image and Imagination" (E-res)
Thurs Sept 8-
"Neoplatonism: Memory, Time, and Narrative"
>Class
at the CC Cabin-Meet on the east side of Worner Center at 8:30 a.m.; vans
will leave right at 8:45 a.m.
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-3
· Plato, Symposium
· Augustine, Confessions, Books 10-11
Fri Sept 9
"Renaissance Audiences: Giotto and the Arena Chapel"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-4
· Howard Davis, "Gravity in the Paintings of Giotto"
(E-res)
· P+R, Chapter 3 (pp. 67-76)
Assignments due
· First paper, due at the beginning of class
(in-class workshop)
>Library research session with Steve Lawson,
Humanities Reference Librarian-1:30 p.m. [Meet in front of the Tutt Library
Reference Desk.]
WEEK 2:
RENAISSANCE VISIONS OF THIS AND OTHER WORLDS
Mon Sept 12
"Dante's Inferno 1: The Structure of Hell"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· John Freccero, "Foreword," Inferno, trans. Pinsky (ix-xvii)
· Robert Pinsky, "Translator's Note," Inferno, trans.
Pinsky (xix-xxii)
· Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-10
Assignments due
· Revised first paper, due at the beginning
of class
>Meet with Re, Rebecca, or Bob in Annotated Bibliography
Groups this afternoon
Tues Sept. 13
"Dante's Inferno 2: Hell, Heroism, and the Nature of Art"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-5
· Dante, Inferno, Cantos 11-17
· Ovid, Metamorphoses: Arachne (book 6/cp. Inferno 17); Phaethon
(book 2/cp. Inferno 17); Daedalus and Icarus (book 8/cp. Inferno 17, 29)
Internet resource: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/trans/Ovhome.htm
· Mark Doty, "Rooting for the Damned" (Eres)
· P+R, Chapter 10 (pp. 204-250) and Chapter 11 (pp. 251-288)
Wed Sept 14
"Dante's Inferno 3: Visions of Hell"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-6
· Dante, Inferno, Cantos 18-28
· P+R, Chapter 8 (pp. 152-173)
· Keith Moxey, "Hieronymus Bosch and the 'World Upside Down'"
(E-res)
>Bonnie Stapleton, Colorado College Director
of Debate, Advice for Oral presentations-12:00-1:00 p.m. [Lunch presentation;
pizza is on us.]
Thurs Sept 15
"Dante's Inferno 4: Community and Judgment"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-7
· Dante, Inferno, Cantos 29-34
· P+R, Chapters 12 (pp. 289-312) and 15-17 (pp. 362-397)
Assignments due
Annotated bibliography, due at the beginning of
class
Fri Sept 16
"Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-8
· Bernardine Barnes, "Metaphorical Painting: Michelangelo,
Dante and the Last Judgment" (E-res)
· P+R, Chapter 18 (pp. 397-424)
>Group meetings with Re, Rebecca, or Bob about
your research presentation
WEEK 3
MANIFESTATIONS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY IN RENAISSANCE ART AND LITERATURE
Mon Sept 19
"Temporal Power"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Machiavelli, The Prince
· Web preparation for The Prince
>Meet with Re, Rebecca, or Bob individually about
your final critical analysis paper
Tues Sept 20
"Redefining Temporal Power through the Arts"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Machiavelli, Mandragola
Assignments due
· Prospectus and outline for Individual Critical
Analysis Papers (due at start of class)
Wed Sept 21
"Art and the Courts"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-9
· P+R, Chapters 14 (pp. 336-361), 19 (pp. 425-436) and 20 (pp.
437-463)
Assignments due
· Group 1 Research Presentation: The Gonzaga
Court in Italy, 1480-1520
Thurs Sept 22
"Art in the Church: Reform and Devotion"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-10
· Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: "The Pardoner's
Tale" (E-res)
· Martin Luther, Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power
and Efficacy of Indulgences (1517) Internet resource: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/
wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html
· Decrees of the Council of Trent on Art, 1563 (E-res)
· Veronese's Trial by Inquisition, 1574 (E-res)
· P+R, Chapters 22-25 (pp. 500-547)
Assignments Due
· Group 2 Research Presentation: Luther's
Role in the Reformation
Fri Set 23
"Sexuality and the Nature of Temporal Power"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
· R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny: Chapter 3, "'Devil's
Gateway' and 'Bride of Christ'" (E-res)
Assignments Due
· Group 3 Research Presentation: Measure
for Measure-Major Critical Cruxes
WEEK 4
RE-INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE
Mon Sept 26
"Gender and the Arts"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-11
· William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (cont.)
· Patricia Simons, "Women in Frames: the Gaze, the Eye, the
Profile in Renaissance Portraiture" (E-res)
· Dorinda Neave, "The Witch in Early 16th-century German Art"
(E-res)
Tues Sept 27
"Art for the People?"
Class preparation (reading/viewing)
· Set number: RT120-12
· Petrarch, Rime Sparza (E-res)
· Shakespeare, Sonnets (E-res)
· Margaret Sullivan, "Proverbs and Process in Bruegel's Rabbit
Hunt" (E-res)
Assignments due
· Critical Analysis Paper, due at the beginning
of class
Wed Sept 28
BLOCK 1 FINAL EXAM
HAVE A GOOD
BLOCK BREAK!!!!!