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Reading Medieval Images

“Am Anfang war das Auge, nicht das Wort.” — Otto Pächt

MDVL 6000
Summer 2006

Course Calendar

Tuesday
Thursday
May 9
Prolegomena
Survey of Medieval Art I

May 11
Electronic Tools of the Trade

Survey of Medieval Art II

May 16
Survey of Medieval Art III
May 18
Survey of Medieval Art IV
May 23
More Tools of the Trade
reading: Dynes, Teviotdale
topic for visual analysis due
May 25
Writing about Art
reading: Sayre
May 30
Semiotics
reading: Schapiro

visual analysis due

June 1
Reading Images, Understanding Objects, Medieval Sign Theory
reading: Sears, Thomas, Kinney, Chazelle
glossary due

June 6
Visual Rhetoric
reading: Thomas, Cahn, Sears, Camille
revised visual analysis due
June 8
Geometry & Architectural Design, Audience
reading: Neagley, Davis, Grabar, Chazelle
progress report on research paper due
June 13
Style & Ideology, Pictorial Conventions
reading: Werckmeister, Glass, Drewer
working annotated bibliography due

June 15
Narrative
reading: Stahl, Parker, Hahn, Little
revised glossary due

June 20
Sacred Images, Mimesis
reading: Carr, Eisenberg
revised annotated bibliography due
June 22
Reading Medieval Images
student reports
research paper due
June 27
Reading Medieval Images
student reports
June 29
NO CLASS
revised research paper due