AHI 230 EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART

The art of Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Piero, Mantegna, Botticelli and Bellini and the major social groups patronizing their art (church, aristocracy, and merchant class). Major topics include the growth of cities and civic culture, the revival of classical antiquity, the invention of "art" and "artist," the rise of portraiture, mythology and landscape, the continuing medieval spiritual legacy, and new ideas on gender, sexuality, and the family.