Art History 201 with Janetta Rebold Benton March 11, 2009

Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art The Middle Ages
Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Director of the Pforzheimer Honors College, Pace University.

This series offers insight into the masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting created from prehistory to our own day. This spring the lecturer studies the period from about A.D. 350 to 1400, comparing the art of the early medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic eras in the West with contemporary achievements throughout the world. No prerequisites, no exams!

This week’s topic:

March 11
Early Christian and Byzantine Art: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; Cave Paintings in India; Colossal Buddha in China; Maya Temple of the Inscriptions in Mexico

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