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This course explores the artistic production in Europe around 1500 as an emblematic moment of contact and transition between different aesthetics and discourses about art and image-making. Through the choice of significant sites and artists, the course will study dynamics of cultural exchange and artistic mobility between Northern and Southern as well as Eastern and Western Europe. The sites considered will range from Mantua to Venice, from Florence to Rome, from Innsbruck to Nurnberg, from Bruges to Tours, and Buda. The artists considered will include: Mantegna, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Pintoricchio, Giorgione, Memling, Jan Hey, Bosch, Durer, and Juan de Borgoña. This comparative and synchronic approach among different aesthetic and historiographical European traditions will also allow us to rethink today’s wide-spread categories of Late Gothic and Renaissance, as well as the very relation between tradition and innovation. |
