Univ. of Minnesota, Morris

Fall 2007

ArtH 3291: Facing the Past: Portraiture in the Early Modern Period

Prof. Julia Dabbs

HFA 5

X6232

Email: dabbsj@morris.umn.edu

Course Syllabus

Slide Review List for Exam #3 (Tues. Nov. 27)

Slide Review List, Exam 1

Slide Review List, Exam 2

Revised Course Outline:

Thurs. Nov. 1: No class

Tues. Nov. 6: Allegorical portraits/Friendship portraits [background reading from Castiglione – handout]

Thurs. Nov. 8: Portraits of Couples/Marriage portraits

*reading for analysis: find/analyze an article or essay of your choice (of at least 7 pages) on Jan van Eyck’s

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife [we will discuss the varying interpretations in class also]

IMAGE for study purposes

Tues. Nov. 13: Portraits of Children, and of Families

*preliminary bibliography/research status report due

Thurs. Nov. 15: People and their Pets/Portraits of Animals

Tues. Nov. 20: Portraits of Families; and Portraying the “Other”

Tues. Nov. 27: EXAM #3

*NOTE: only 2 reading critiques will be required for the semester, rather than 3, since I have dropped the section on

Group Portraits (which had the last required reading).

Portraiture Exhibit at the Tweed Museum, Duluth (for anyone heading up that way)

ArtNews article on the Mona Lisa: “Is She Smiling for Two?” [thanks to Amber J. for this reference]

Portraiture course group portrait, UMM, 2003