A History of European Art

376 Pages·2012·1.14 MB·English

by  William Kloss

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Professor William Kloss is an independent art historian and
lecturer for the Smithsonian Institution’s seminar and travel
program. He has delivered hundreds of courses and lectures
around the world on a range of European and American
art to such prestigious universities and institutions as the
University of Virginia, The Art Institute of Chicago, and
Sotheby’s Institute.
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William Kloss, M.A.
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rofessor William Kloss is an independent
art historian and scholar who lectures and
writes about a wide range of European
and American art. He was educated at Oberlin
College, where he earned a B.A. in English and
an M.A. in Art History.
Professor Kloss continued his postgraduate work as a Teaching Fellow at
the University of Michigan. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for
two years of study in Rome and was an Assistant Professor of Art History at
the University of Virginia, where he taught 17th- and 18th-century European
art and 19th-century French art. His courses were very highly rated by both
undergraduate and graduate students.
A resident of Washington DC, Professor Kloss has enjoyed a long association
with the Smithsonian Institution as an independent lecturer for the seminar
and travel program, presenting more than 100 courses in the United States
and abroad on subjects ranging from ancient Greek art to Impressionism to
the works of Winslow Homer. He has also been a featured lecturer for the
National Trust for Historic Preservation and for The Art Institute of Chicago
and a guest faculty lecturer for the American Arts Course at Sotheby’s
Institute of Art.
Professor Kloss serves on the Committee for the Preservation of the White
House, a presidential appointment he has held since 1990, and is a member
of the Portrait Advisory Panel for the U.S. Senate Commission on Art. He is
the author of several books, including the award-winning Art in the White
House: A Nation’s Pride and most recently coauthored United States Senate
Catalogue of Fine Art. He has also written articles published in Winterthur
Portfolio, The Magazine Antiques, American Arts Quarterly, White House
History, and Antiques & Fine Art and has recorded four earlier Teaching
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European Art, Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt, and Masterworks of
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
Approaches to European Art ..............................................................4
LECTURE 2
Carolingian and Ottonian Art ............................................................14
LECTURE 3
Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture .........................................20
LECTURE 4
Gothic Art in France ..........................................................................27
LECTURE 5
Gothic Art in Germany and Italy........................................................33
LECTURE 6
Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part I ................................................40
LECTURE 7
Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part II ...............................................46
LECTURE 8
Duccio and the Maestà .....................................................................52
LECTURE 9
Sienese Art in the 14th Century .........................................................58
LECTURE 10
The Black Death and the International Style ....................................65
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LECTURE 11
Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence.........................................71
LECTURE 12
Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence .....................................77
LECTURE 13
Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting ......................................83
LECTURE 14
Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art ...................................89
LECTURE 15
Northern Renaissance Altarpieces ...................................................96
LECTURE 16
Piero della Francesca in Arezzo .....................................................102
LECTURE 17
Sandro Botticelli..............................................................................107
LECTURE 18
Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini ..........................................113
LECTURE 19
High Renaissance Painting in Venice .............................................120
LECTURE 20
The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci ...................................126
LECTURE 21
The High Renaissance—Raphael ..................................................132
LECTURE 22
The High Renaissance—Michelangelo ..........................................138
LECTURE 23
Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art ................................145
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LECTURE 24
Riemenschneider and Grünewald ..................................................152
LECTURE 25
Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century ..............................................158
LECTURE 26
Pieter Bruegel the Elder .................................................................165
LECTURE 27
Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo .............................170
LECTURE 28
Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art ........................................176
LECTURE 29
Caravaggio .....................................................................................183
LECTURE 30
Italian Baroque Painting in Rome ...................................................190
LECTURE 31
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ......................................................................196
LECTURE 32
Peter Paul Rubens .........................................................................201
LECTURE 33
Dutch Painting in the 17th Century ..................................................208
LECTURE 34
Rembrandt ......................................................................................214
LECTURE 35
Poussin and Claude—The Allure of Rome .....................................221
LECTURE 36
Baroque Painting in Spain ..............................................................228
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LECTURE 37
Louis XIV and Versailles .................................................................236
LECTURE 38
French Art in the 18th Century .........................................................242
LECTURE 39
Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism .................................248
LECTURE 40
Romanticism in the 19th Century .....................................................255
LECTURE 41
Realism—From Daumier to Courbet ..............................................263
LECTURE 42
Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism .............................270
LECTURE 43
Monet and Degas ...........................................................................277
LECTURE 44
Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne.......................................................282
LECTURE 45
Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse ..........................290
LECTURE 46
Cubism and Early Modern Painting ................................................297
LECTURE 47
Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi ........................................305
LECTURE 48
Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso ..............................312
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Timeline ..........................................................................................320
Glossary .........................................................................................329
Biographical Notes .........................................................................339
Bibliography ....................................................................................355
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