Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the artistic encounters that occurred around the Mediterranean basin through specific objects and buildings, each week focusing on one or a coherent group of objects. We will explore how the circulation of aesthetic trends, forms, and techniques that occurred via trade, conquest, warfare, power relations, artists' patronage and gift exchange resulted in mutual processes of artistic transmissions between different cultures and across Muslim-Christian boundaries.