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Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530 
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Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530
 at 
Oxford University 
Overview

Locate artefacts within appropriate historical, intellectual, cultural or material contexts

Duration

10 weeks

Total fee

19,000

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530
 at 
Oxford University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
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Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530
 at 
Oxford University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Engage critically with the works of painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance
  • Become familiar with artistic traditions, innovations and issues in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • Be familiar with a focused and substantive area of current research in the History of Art
  • Be able to describe and analyse works of art according to their visual qualities and characteristics
  • Become confident in applying skills of visual analysis and discussing works of art within various contexts: physical/material; social; cultural
More about this course
  • Investigate how the paintings that he made at court can be considered to be the result of a marriage between courtly taste and his own particular interests
  • We will trace and account for continuity and change across our period, taking an approach which considers cross-sections of history, constructing a snap-shot of the situation in Italian courts at various points across the century, looking for commonality across courts as much as distinctions between them
  • Able to discuss works of art of the Italian Renaissance within their material, social and cultural contexts

Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530
 at 
Oxford University 
Curriculum

Week 0

An Introduction to Teams -Course orientation

Week 1

Introduction: Andrea Mantegna and his Contemporaries. A Who's Who of Italian Court Culture c.1430-c.1550

Week 2

The 'Performance' of the Court Artist

Week 3

Portraits: Patrons and Identities at Court

Week 4

Court Art of the 1470s: a cross section

Week 5

Collecting at Court

Week 6

Court Art of the 1490s: a cross section

Week 7

The Studiolo of Isabella d'Este: a case study

Week 8

Raphael and 'The Courtier' of Baldesar Castiglione

Week 9

Titian and the Courts of Italy and Europe

Week 10

Conclusion: Mantegna and the shaping of Court Culture

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Andrea Mantegna and Italian Renaissance Court Art, c.1430-c.1530
 at 
Oxford University 
Faculty details

Dr Ian Holgate
Ian is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. His research and publications focus on Venetian and Paduan painting of the fifteenth century. He is currently writing a monographic study of the paintings of Antonio Vivarini

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