5835 Renaissance Literature: Perspective in the Art, Philosophy, and Literature of the Renaissance / Dr. Alexander Brock / Wednesday, 2-5pm, in person
This graduate seminar will offer an interdisciplinary and intermedial exploration of the problem of perspective in the European Renaissance. Beginning with early experiments and theories of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Florence, the seminar will trace the development of artistic techniques of spatial illusion in the succeeding centuries across European cultures and will examine how these developments intersect with constructions of vision, spectatorship, gender, erotics, religion, subjectivity, and “point of view” in Renaissance philosophy and literature. Artists and writers to be discussed include Brunelleschi, Alberti, Da Vinci, Dürer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Leibniz. Wednesdays 2-5pm.
5835 Renaissance Literature: Perspective in the Art, Philosophy, and Literature of the Renaissance
5835 Renaissance Literature: Perspective in the Art, Philosophy, and Literature of the Renaissance