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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
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  • 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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