This course will study the main movements and influential artists in Western art history from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Looking at major developments in painting, sculpture and architecture from the Renaissance to Modern art, you will become familiar with and be able to explain a number of regional styles and individual works. This course aims to provide you with an understanding of the historical framework of certain artistic movements and why they developed in their place and time. You will gain tools to analyze and understand iconography, color, perspective, form, etc., to take beyond the classroom into the visual world around you. Although we will be categorically and chronologically studying certain movements to provide a broad foundation of understanding, the course will ultimately attempt to show the flow between these styles and movements to see how the actions and reactions between subject and object make these works of art so unique and interesting.

History of Art, by H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson, 5th Edition, Prentice Hal