Course Information

• Supervision schedule
• Essay titles
• What is expected in an essay?
• What happens in a supervision?
• How much work do I need to be doing?
• What am I meant to be learning?
• Visual analysis and how to do it

Brief articles on ideas related to the course

• Help! I don't know anything about the Bible or Christianity!
• Suggested readings from Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
• The Council of Trent
• The Protestant Reformation
• The Counter Reformation or Catholic Reformation
• Historia
• Leone Battista Alberti
• Allegory
• Genre painting

Texts related to the course

• Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend in English
• Ovid's Metamorphoses in English
• Alberti's On painting in English
• English text of the Council of Trent
• Vasari's Lives of the Artists in English
• Gombrich on Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
• Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture

Images

• Giotto's Arena Chapel in Padua
• Tres Riche Heurs - click on a month to view the calendar images
• Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
• Titian's Diana and Acteon
• Vermeer's The Milkmaid

Other 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 History Resources on the Web
• How to improve your essay writing skills
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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Last updated Thursday, March 17, 2005