This site has information for those being supervised by Nancy Ross for the Part 1 course, The Making of Art. Please check this site regularly, as it will be updated.

Course Information

• Essay titles and suggested reading
• What is expected in an essay?
• What happens in a supervision?
• Supervision schedule
• How much work do I need to be doing?
• What is this course all about?
• I can't find any books - what do I do?

Helps and Hints

• Help! I don't know anything about the Bible or Christianity!
• Suggested readings from Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
• Humanism
• Religious Humanism
• Mannerism
• An Overview of Mannerism with illustrations
• Italian Renaissance
• Neo-classicism

Texts related to the course

• Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell' Arte in English
• Vasari's Lives of the Artists in English

Images

• A list of key works of art that we have covered so far
• Images of Duccio's Maestà
• Images of Simone Martini's Annunciation
• Images of Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Betrothal
• Image of Masaccio's Holy Trinity

Online Resources

• Grove Dictionary of Art - this site is good for looking up art terms and artists
• The Unbound Bible - this site has a number of different Bible translations
• Pevsner's Glossary of Architectural Terms
• The Catholic Encyclopedia - this is an online encyclopedia of Catholicism and is a great resource for those who need to brush up on their knowldege of Christianity
• Art Movements - this site provides brief overviews of 19th and 20th century art movements
• Art History Resources on the Web

Click here for a list of books you may want to purchase

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Last updated Thursday, March 03, 2005