DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
47. FINE ARTS B
Mr. F. A. PЬiliРР
A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
No external enrolments are accepted in this subject.
Fine Arts В will be given in 1968 and alternate years.
-Students who wish for good reasons to take this subject without having previously taken Fine Arts A must obtain the permission of the lecturer in charge of the subject and must undertake a course of preliminary reading prescribed by the Department.
SYLLABUS
A study of the art of the Renaissance in Italy, with an introduction on Italian Medieval art. The tutorial class will be given mainly to the study of primary and written sources.
Students are required to submit written work.
BОOKS
Monographs and works of reference are not included here; sectional bibliographies will be issued through the year to supplement this basic list. Students are strongly recommended to acquire as much visual reference material as possible. Books which students will be permitted to take into the examination room are marked with a double asterisk: extracts from these books may also be used in the examination.
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Ovid—MetaØ hoses.
( Pelican or any other ed.) Huizinga, J.—The Waning of the Middle Ages.
(Pelican.) Waddell, H.-The Wandering Scholars. (Pelican.)*Panofsky,
E.-=Studies
inIconology
(the introductory chapter). ( O.U.P., 1939;Harper Torch Books, 1962.)
*Panofsky, E.—Meaning in the Visual Arts (of which the introductory chapter only is identical with the above ). ( Doubleday, 1955.)
Heer, F.—The Medieval Worlď, 1100-1350. (Mentor.) Wall, B. Italian Art, Life and Landscape. (Elek.)
Munay, P. and L.—The Art of the Renaissance. (Thames and Hudson.) The New Cambridge Modern history, vol. I. (C.U.P.)
*Burckhardt,
J. The
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. (Phaidon.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:Primary sources
**Holt, E. G.—A Documentary listory of
Art.
2 vols. (Doubleday, 1958.) This is a new edition of Literary Sources of Art History. ( Princeton, 1947.)* *Ghiberti—Commeпtarii.
** Alberti—Тen Books on Architecture. (Tiranti, 1955.)
* *AlЬеrti—Oп Painting. (ed., J. R. Spencer, 1956, Routledge.) (O.P. )
**Vasari, G.-Lives of the most eminent painters,- sculptors and architects.
( Everyman Nos. 784-7, reprinted 1962, or at least a selected edition such as that edited by Betty Burroughs, Allen & Unwin, 1960.)
*Maclehose, L. S. ( ed.)—Vasari: "On Technique". (Dover.)
**Ønardo—The Paragone. (ed. Richter, O.U.P.)
**Leonardo—Treatise on Painting. (Trans. and annotated by A. P. McMahon, Princeton, 1957 or any other edition. )
or MacCindy—The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
or Richter, J. P.—The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci.
**Michelangelo, a Self Portrait, ed., R. C. Clements (Prentice-Hal) and/or 80
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**Complete Pоems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo. (Modern Library.) Michelangelo—Poetry. ( Any edition. )
**Michelangelo—Letters. (The best edition is that of E. H. Ramsden, Peter Owen, 1963.)
Secondary sources
*Panofsky, E.=Studies in Iconology. ( Harper Torch Books, 1962.) The Renaissance, Six Essays. ( Harper Torchbooks. )
Мeiss, M,—Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. (Harper Torchbooks. )
* WÖli11in, 1.—Classic Art. (Phaidon.)
*Dewald, E. Т. Italian Painting, 1200-1600. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.)
*Gould, C.—An Introduction to Italian Renaissance Painting. (Phaidon.). White, 3.—The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space.
Pope-Hennessy, J. Italian Gothic Sculpture. ( Phaidon, 1958.) • Pope-Hennessy, 3.—Italian Renaissance Sculpture. (Phaidon, 1958.)
Роре-Hennessy, J. Italian High lenaissaiwe and Baroque Sculpture. 3 vols.
( Phaidon, 1963: )
Chastel, A.—Art et humanisme d Florence au temps de Laurent le Mаgпifiquв.
Panofsky, E: Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art. (2 vols., Copen- hagen, 1960.)
Wittkower, R.—Architectural Principles in the Age of Ниmaпism. (Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and reprint by Tiranti. )
Friedländer, W. Mannerism
in
Italian Painting. (Columbia U.Р., 1957.) Studies in Western Art, ed. Meiss, 1963, vols. 1 and 2. (Princeton.)*Kristeller, P. O.—Renaissance Thought. 2 vols. (Harper Torch Books.) Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. 4 vols. (Phaidon.) Schevill, F.—Medieval and Renaissance Florence. (Harper Torch Books.) EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers and a visual test to be taken earlier than the written papers.
Written work as prescribed by the Department.
48. FINE ARTS C Dr. B. W. Smith
A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
This subject is not available for external tuition.
Fine Arts C will be given in 1967 and alternate years.
Students wishing to take this subject without having previously taken Fine Arts A should consult the Fine Arts department about preliminary reading.
SYLLABUS
A study of European art (1750-1920) with, special reference to Romanticism, Neo-classicism, Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism, and some 20th century trends.
Students are required to submit written work.
BOOKS
The following is a basic list only. Further bibŮoggrraphies will be supplied throughout the year. Students are reconiniended to buy the books marked with an asterisk.
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Goethe, J. W. Italian Journey. (trs. W. H. Auden & E. Mayer, Lend., 1962.) Friedländer, W.—David to Delacroix. ( Harvard U.P. ) . Clark, K.—The Gothic Revival. (Murray, 1962. )
The Cambridge Modern History, Vol. X. ( New ed., C.U.P., 1960. ) Praz, M. =The Romantic Agony. (Lond., 1933.)
(b ) Prescribed textbooks:
Primary Sources
*Holt, E. G.—A Documentary Нistory of Art, Vol. 2, Part III. ( Doubleday , 1958).
*Holt, E. G.—From the Classicists to the Impressionists. (Doubleday, 1968. )
*Reynolds, J. -Discourses, ed. Wark, R. R. ( Huntington Library, 1959. )
*Delacroix, E.—The Journals of Eugèпв Delacroix. (Phaidon, 1952.) 8
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*Baudelaire, C. P.—The Mirror of Art. ( Phaidon, 195.) Ruskin, J. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. ( Everyman.)
Moms, W.—Selected Writings and Designs, ed. Briggs, A. ( Pelican, 1962.) CéØе, P.—Letters, ed. Rewald, J. ( London, 1941. )
Secondary Soцrces
*Novotny, F.—Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880. (Penguin, 1960.) Summerson, J.—Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830. ( Penguin, 1953.)
Kaufmann, E.—Architecture in the Age of Rеasоn. ( Harvard, 1955.) Borie, T. S. R.—English Art 1800-1870. (O.U.P., 1959.)
*Hitchcock, H. R.—Architecture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Penguin, 1958.)
Pevsner, N.—Pioneers of Modern Design. (Museum of Mod. Art, N.Y., and Penguin, 1960.)
Rewald, 3—The History of Impressionism. (Mus. Mod. Art, N.Y., 1946.) Rewald, J.—Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin. (Mus. Mod. Art,
N.Y., n.d.)
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers and a visual examination.
Written work as prescribed by the Department.
HONOURS DEGREE N. SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
(For possible combinations with this school see p. 249)
Students who commenced the course before 1966 will take the course set out in the 1965 Handbook.
The following regulations : apply to students who commence the course after 1965:
1. The course for the degree with honours in the School of Fine Arts com- prises the following subjects:
1. Fine Arts A 2. Fine Arts B 3. Fine Arts C 4. Fine Arts D
5. (a) Ancient History (bons) or European History A (hens) or (b) English Language and Literature part I. (see note 1.)
6. (a) Honours History C or Honours History E or Honours History B or (b) English Literature part II.
7. Aesthetics.
Note 1
Students who take one of the subjects listed in 5(a) in the first year must take one of those listed in 6 (a') in the second year. Students who take the subject in 5 (b ) in the first year must take the subject in 6 (b ) in the second year.
Note 2
Candidates for the degree with honours must also take either
(a) four additional subjects, including at least Part I of a foreign language.
The subjects may include a major approved by the Department of Fine Arts. If a major is not taken the three subjects additional to the language should preferably be chosen from: Ancient History, European History A (if the student is not taking 5( a ) and 6( a ) above ), English I (if the student is not taking 5( b) and 6( b) above ), Music A, Philosophy Part I, Psychology Part I.
or (b) three additional subjects only, if
(i) one of the three—which must include Part I of a foreign language—
is taken at honours standard; or
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(ii) if two of the three subjects are foreign languages; or (iii) these three subjects form a major in a foreign language.
Students who have completed the First Year must be approved by the Faculty of Arts as candidates for the degree with honours before entering the Second Year of the honours school. The professor of Fine Arts will normally recommend such approval for candidates who have gained first or second class honours in Fine Arts A and in their Grade I honours subjects.
Note 3 .
The Honours courses in Fine Arts A, B and C will be under the charge of the same teachers as the pass courses. Fine Arts D will be given by Mr. F. A. Philipp in 1987.
2. The subjects of the course should be taken in the following order:
(a) (ъ) (c) (d) Second Year: (a)
*(ь) (c) Third year: (a)
(
е) Fourth Year: (b)Fine Arts (hons)
Ancient History (hofs) or European History A (hes) or English Language and Literature Part I.
First part of approved major or one of the additional pass subjects. (see note 2 above)
Part I of a foreign language (see note 2 above).
Fine Arts B (hons) or Fine Arts C (hons )
Honours History C or Honours History E or Honours History B or English Literature Part II.
Second part of approved major or one other pass subject.
Fine Arts C (hons) or Fine Arts B (bons) . Aesthetics.
Third part of approved major or one other pass subject.
Fine Arts D.
Thesis.
First Year:
The final examination in the School of Fine Arts will be divided into two parts:
Part I will consist of one 3-hour paper in Aesthetics and the examination prescribed for the third year Fine Arts honours subject ( Fine Arts B or Fine Arts C, whichever is given that year) as set out below.
Part II will consist of a thesis on an approved subject, together with one 3-hour paper in each of the following:
(1) Classical art.
(2) Fine Arts D.
(3) Either (a) Italian Renaissance Art or (b) Eиroрeап Art, 1750-1920, whichever subject has not been examined in Part I.
46. FINE ARTS A