Human Nature: Looking at Ourselves and Others in Northern European Art, 1400-1600
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What did it mean to be human in the 15th and 16th centuries? What were the stakes of looking at and representing human bodies in art? Artists in Northern Europe drew, painted and printed all kinds of people: fools, soldiers, sex workers, migrants, wildmen; the sick, disabled and poor. They explored impactful strategies around observation, description, and visibility. This course examines how art historical developments in the human figure were complicit in constructing and subverting social power dynamics.
Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: PGT