ARTH 050. Renaissance Art and Global Expansion

This discussion-based course focuses on Europe’s relations with Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in the early era of colonization and global expansion. Students will explore what the visual arts can reveal about the transfer and hybridization of ideas; the relationship between art, religion, and colonialism; the development of the “exotic”; and the growth of global trade in this era of increasing internationalism. We will focus on cross-cultural exchange in the 15th - 17th centuries, and consider these issues primarily from the European perception of the expanding world. The theme of globalism will be addressed through an examination of arts such as paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, textiles, architecture, maps, festival art, and ice and sugar sculptures.
Arts and Humanites.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLST.
Fall 2027 Reilly.
Catalog chapter: Art History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history

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