Art History Syllabus* Fall 2013
(18 weeks, 0.5 fine art credit)
The Ohio Department of Education’s Revised Standards for Visual Art divides the subject into
three processes: 1) to perceive and know, 2) to produce and 3) to respond and reflect on works
of art. In Art History, you will have opportunities to exercise the first and third areas through
artistic inquiry and reflection. This fast-paced course introduces visual art history over a 2.5
million year period. Key western artworks are studied chronologically and thematically with
emphasis on subject matter, concepts, and the formal, technical and expressive aspects of the
works. The use of technology, video, reading, speakers and lecture enable students to become
familiar with the connections between the development of art and events in history through
conversation, writing and activities.
textbook; Brommer, Gerald F., Discovering Art History, fourth edition, 2007, Davis Publications, Inc. Worcester,
Massachusetts, USA.
First Grading Period
Week Topic
Visual vocabulary, media and processes,
1
criticism, aesthetics, art history
Pre-history
2
Ancient Egypt
3
Ancient Greece
4
Ancient Rome
5
Early Christian, Byzantine and Islamic
6
Art
Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
7
Gothic Art
8
Italian Renaissance
9
Second Grading Period
Week Topic
10
11
12
13
Northern Renaissance
Baroque Art
Rococo Art
19th Century Art; Neoclassicism,
Romanticism, Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Assignment
Vocabulary quiz, map quiz
pages
4-75
quiz
quiz
quiz
Ancient Art test
quiz
148-159
160-169
172-189
190-201
204-221
quiz, Project #1 due
quiz
Quiz, quarter exam
222-239
240-257
260-287
Assignment
pages
Renaissance test
quiz
Baroque and Rococo test
quiz
302-327
330-363
364-377
380-409
quiz
19th century – Postimpressionism test
th
Early 20 Century Art
quiz, Project #2 due
16
Modern Art to present
20th – 21st Century test
17
Issues in Art History
Quarter exam,
18
comprehensive final exam
*Syllabus subject to changes; additions and cancellations
14
15
416-429
430-439
440-489
548-587
12-13
“The world’s wisdom has been preserved through art.” - unknown