Title
ARTH1300-01.Dante and the Visual Arts.Sp14.Audeh,Aida
Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
ART
Course Subject
ARTH
Course Number
1300
Course Section
01
Course Title
Dante and the Visual Arts
Academic Term and Year
Spring 2014
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
F, H
Area of Study
ART, ARTH
Course Description
Goals: To familiarize students with one of the great works of Western culture, Dante's Divine Comedy, and, of that work, to read its most well-known component, the Inferno. To explore the interaction of art and literature through study of artists' interpretations of the Inferno from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Arts studied include painting, sculpture, and book/manuscript illustration. Content: Students will read all of Dante's Inferno (which is the first of three parts of the Divine Comedy, the other two being Purgatorio and Paradiso) and will study visual imagery created as illustration of this work or as inspired by this work. Taught: Alternate years, concurrently with ARTH 3300.
Recommended Citation
Audeh, Aida, "ARTH1300-01.Dante and the Visual Arts.Sp14.Audeh,Aida" (2014). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 2520.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/2520