Schedule of Classes and Readings
Week 1 (M- TH, May 20, 21, 22, 23): Introduction to Gender and Mannerism in the Early Modern Period;
Leonardo, Naturalism, and the Renaissance Notion of Woman
Readings:
Christine de Pisan, excerpt from City of Ladies
Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
Vasari, “Lives”, preface to part 3
Clark, selection from Leonardo’s “On Painting”
Garrard, “Female Portraits, Female Nature”
Jacobs, “La Donnesca Mano”
Week 2 (May 27-30): The Formation of the Female Artist in the Early Modern Period
Readings:
Murphy, “Lavinia Fontana and Le Dame della Citta”
Garrard, “Here’s Looking at Me”
Rocco, “Stitching for Virtue”
Parker, “The Subversive Stitch”
Week 3 (June 3-6): Mannerism, Eroticism, and Violence: the Construction of Gender
Readings:
Healy, “Bronzino’s London ‘Allegory’”
Thomas, “Fabric and Dress”
Selection from Cellini’s autobiography
Even, “Loggia dei Lanzi”
Zirpolo, “Botticelli’s Primavera”
Topic for final paper due; Midterm exam
Week 4 (June 10-13): Women, Behavioural Codes, and the Visual Culture of Marriage;
Virtuous Heroines and the Construction of the Femmes Fortes
Readings:
Syson (in Bayer) “Belle: Picturing Beautiful Women”
Goffen, “Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love and Marriage”
Ciletti, “Patriarchal Ideology … Judith”
Garrard, “Artemisia and Susanna”
Week 5 (June 17-20) Museum/Archival visit;
Film on Women in the Renaissance: Critique and Discussion
Student Presentations and Final Exam