INTP 091. Capstone: Interpreting the Classical Tradition: Neoclassicism and Romanticism

ARTH 098 CLST 091
This course will focus on conceptions of the “Classical” during the artistic and literary movements known as Neoclassicism (1750-1850) and Romanticism (1800-1850). Neoclassicism was a period of new attitudes towards Greco-Roman antiquity that were stimulated by archaeological discoveries extending from Italy and the Mediterranean to Egypt and the Near East. Whereas Neoclassicism interpreted the “Classical” as calm and restrained in feeling and clear and complete in expression, Romanticism subsequently viewed antiquity differently and as characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality.

Seminar topics will include: art, architecture, decorative arts and aesthetics, mythology and religion, philosophy, literature, education and the academy, cultural and political debates, archaeology, and translation.

We will consider the works of philosophers and political thinkers such as: Winkelmann, Handel, Gluck, Pope, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Schliemann, Goethe and Hegel.

We will consider the works of artists and architects such as: Jacques-Louis David, Piranesi, Robert Adam, Blake, Angelica Kauffman, Ingres, Hamilton, Benjamin West, Canova, Flaxman, and Nash.
Open to INTP seniors and juniors, and other juniors and seniors by approval of instructors. Classical Studies majors using CLST 091/091A as the required CLST capstone must take both CLST 091 and CLST 091A.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for ARTH, CLST, INTP
Spring 2024. Ledbetter. Reilly.
Catalog chapter: Interpretation Theory
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/interpretation-theory

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