Beyond Antiquity: Visual Arts

ECTS: 5

This course offers a survey of works of art, artists, and patrons (both institutions such as the Church and individuals like kings and princes) during the so-called Middle Ages, that is the period of 1.000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. Works of art in various media will be studied within the specific context in which they originated. Issues to be discussed include their original function, their subject matter and possible meaning, their makers and patron(s), their place within a stylistic development and their historical significance.