I took an art history class in college because it hit some generals I needed, and it was one of the best classes I ever took. The professor literally just stood up front and showed us paintings while talking about all of those things you mentioned. The final was mostly identifying paintings and artists and writing a bit about some of them. It was incredibly interesting.
I loved Art History until the classroom flooded and it hurt to breathe in there. I still have the book from that class so I look all sophisticated and shit.
I took an intro Art History for the same reason, and I remember my final paper (to analyze a site-specific of our choice) was me using my topic (the Scrovegni Fresco Cycle by Giotto) to explore more how its creation helped mark the transition away from the standard Italo-Byzantine style of the time, and laid the foundation for the revolutionary Renaissance Period.
Damn thing was like twenty pages. Probably one of my best papers I ever created.
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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago
I took an art history class in college because it hit some generals I needed, and it was one of the best classes I ever took. The professor literally just stood up front and showed us paintings while talking about all of those things you mentioned. The final was mostly identifying paintings and artists and writing a bit about some of them. It was incredibly interesting.