Schedule

DATE

TITLE

TOPIC

READING

ASSIGNMENTS

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION, ORIGINS AND ANCIENT GREECE

AUG
17

AUG
22

AUG
24

AUG
29

AUG
31

Overview of
course content,
INTRODUCTION
approach,
resources, and
assignments
Introduction to art:
what does it do,
WHAT IS ART?
how does it work,
what does it tell
us?
Introduction to art
history: what is an
art historian, what
WHAT IS ART
kinds of questions
HISTORY?
do they ask, what
kinds of methods
do they use?
Art during the
PREHISTORIC
Upper Paleolithic
ART 1: OVERVIEW
Period in Europe.

PREHISTORIC
ART 2: CAVE
PAINTING

Art Through the

Ages,
Introduction
(Pages 1-13)
Art Through the
Ages,
Introduction
(Pages 1-13)

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 1
(Pages 14-22)
Film: Werner
Herzog, Cave of
Exploring the
Forgotten
earliest art:
Dreams
Chauvet Cave and
Prehistoric
those who study it.
Painted Caves
Study Guide

SEPT
NO CLASS
5

LABOR DAY

SEPT
MESOPOTAMIA
7

Art and the rise of

complex society in
Mesopotamia

SEPT
EGYPT 1
12

Art in Pharaonic
Egypt: Old
Kingdom

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 1 (2228)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 1 (3239)
Ancient Egyptian

Required
Materials Check

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Sign Up

Quiz

Quiz
Online
Discussion 1
(Chauvet Cave)

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Outline
Quiz

SEPT
EGYPT 2
14

SEPT FIRST
19
MILLENNIUM

SEPT
GREECE 1
21
SEPT
GREECE 2
26

SEPT
GREECE 3
28

Art in Pharaonic
Egypt: New
Kingdom
Art at the turn of
the first
millennium.
Art in Greece:
Bronze Age origins
to the Archaic
Period
Art in Greece:
Archaic and
Classical Periods

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 2 (4665)

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 2 (6580)
Art Through the
Classical Greek art
Ages, Ch. 2 (68and the Western
72)
tradition: the
Parthenon
Parthenon
Sculptures Study
Sculptures
Guide
Art Through the
Classical Greek art Ages, Ch. 2 (68and the Western
72)
tradition: the
Parthenon
Parthenon
Sculptures Study
Sculptures
Guide

OCT
3

GREECE 4

OCT
5

MASTERPIECE
PROJECT
REVIEW

Masterpiece
Project one-onone workshops

OCT
10

GREECE 5

Art in Greece:
Hellenistic Period

OCT
12

MIDTERM
REVIEW

OCT
17

Mastabas Study
Guide
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 1 (3945)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 1 (2832, 45)
Antiquities at
Risk Study Guide

Review of terms,
concepts, and
works.
Student
MASTERPIECE
presentations of
PRESENTATIONS: masterpieces from
GROUPS 1 AND 2 Prehistory through
Ancient Greece

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 2
(Pages 80-85)

Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 2
(Antiquities At
Risk)
Quiz

Quiz

Quiz

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Groups 1
(Origins) and 2
(Greece): Guide
Due Oct 3

Quiz

Masterpiece
Project Groups 1
and 2
PRESENTATION

OCT
19

MIDTERM

Exam

PART TWO: ROME AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE

OCT
24

OCT
26

OCT
31

NOV
2

ROME 1

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 3
(Pages 86-95,
97)

Student
MASTERPIECE
presentations of
PRESENTATIONS:
masterpieces from
GROUPS 1 AND 2
Prehistory through
Ancient Greece
Student
MASTERPIECE
presentations of
PRESENTATIONS: masterpieces from
GROUPS 1 AND 2 Prehistory through
Ancient Greece

ROME 2

NOV
7

ROME 3

NOV
9

ROME 4 and
BYZANTIUM

NOV
14

ISLAM

NOV
16

Art in Rome:
Origins and
Republican Period

MASTERPIECE
PRESENTATIONS
3: ROME

Life in the Early

Roman Empire:
Herculaneum and
archaeology.

Art in Rome:
Augustus and the
Empire
Art in Rome: Late
Empire, the Rise of
Christianity, and
the Byzantine
Empire
Art in the Medieval
Islamic World
Student
presentations of
masterpieces from
Ancient Rome

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 3
(Pages 95-103)
Film: The Other
Pompeii: Life
and Death in
Herculaneum
(BBC)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 3
(Pages 103-115)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 3
(Pages 115-121)
and Ch. 4
(Pages 122-145)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 5
(Pages 146-159)
Islamic Art Study
Guide

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Groups
1 and 2
PRESENTATIO
N
Masterpiece
Project Groups
1 and 2
PRESENTATIO
N
Quiz
Online
Discussion 3
(Daily Life in the
Roman World)
DUE NOV 7

Quiz
Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Group 3
(Rome)

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Group 3
(Rome)
PRESENTATIO

N
NOV
21

NOV
23

MEDIEVAL
EUROPE 1

MEDIEVAL
EUROPE 2

Art in Medieval
Europe: Early
Medieval Period

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 6
(Pages 160-178,
186-188 )

Quiz

Art in Medieval
Europe:
Romanesque
Period

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 6
(Pages 183-185)
and Ch. 7
(Pages 190-202)

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Group 4
(Medieval
World)
(DUE
NOV 25)

MEDIEVAL
EUROPE 3

Art in Medieval
Europe:
Romanesque and
Gothic Periods
Exploring Medieval
Architecture: the
construction and
symbolism of the
Gothic cathedral

NOV
30

MEDIEVAL
EUROPE 4

Art in Medieval
Europe: Late
Gothic and Early
Renaissance

DEC
5

MASTERPIECE
PRESENTATIONS
4: MEDIEVAL
WORLD

Student
presentations of
masterpieces from
the Medieval World

DEC
7

REVIEW

Review for Final

Exam

DEC
14

FINAL

Our final is
scheduled for
10:15-12:15

NOV
28

Art Through the

Ages, Ch. 6
(Pages 183-185)
and Ch. 7
(Pages 190202)Film:
Building the
Great Cathedrals
(PBS)
Gothic
Cathedrals Study
Guide
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 7
(202-204, 208213, 216-219)

Quiz
Online
Discussion 4
(Gothic
Cathedrals)

Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Group 4
(Medieval
World)
PRESENTATIO
N
Online
Discussion 5
(Masterpiece
Project Peer
Assessment)