Image of a medieval musician

Reading Medieval Images

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

MDVL 6000
Summer 2006

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Field Trip to the Toledo Museum of Art (June 11, 2006)


Pictured (L-R): Kevin Winters, Micah Erwin, Johnna ap'Morrygan,Theresa Whitaker, Jill Hamilton,
Katie Brambrink, Ilse Schweitzer, Peter Sewell, Terri Jenkins-Suggs, Chris Suggs

This seminar introduces students to the discipline of art history and to the fundamentals of “reading” medieval images in a variety of media. Emphasis is placed on avoiding the common pitfalls in analyzing and writing about works of art and on the recent re-integration of the art object into the discourse of art history.

Prerequisites: none, but an elementary knowledge of Latin is assumed