Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE QUEST FOR ORIGINALITY IN CLASSICAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines how modern interests in originality and related desires for original artworks have shaped classical art history. Course considers differences between ancient and modern notions of originality; the degenerative view of Roman art based on the copying of Greek originals; how the modern quest to reconstruct lost originals has impacted the way we see antiquity today. Cross-list: CLAS 416.