Online Art History I Course for College Credits

Art History I

Explore the evolution of art from prehistoric times through the medieval period. Study major artistic movements, cultural influences, architecture, sculpture, and painting while developing visual analysis skills & earning transferable college credits

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Course curriculum

1. Course Overview
2. CLEP Prep
1. Chapter 1 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 1.1 Common Questions about Dates
4. 1.2 A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture
5. Video: Why Look at Art?
6. Video: The Skill of Describing
7. 1.3 Patronage and the Status of the Artist
8. Video: Glossary of Art Terms
1. Chapter 2 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 2.1 Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
4. Video: Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
5. 2.2 Paleolithic Art Explained
6. 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution
7. 2.4 Jericho
8. 2.5 Çatal Höyük
9. 2.6 Stonehenge
1. Chapter 3 Overview
2. 3.1 Ancient Near East
3. 3.2 Sumerian Art
4. 3.3 The Invention of Writing
5. VIDEO: The Standard of Ur
6. 3.4 Ziggurat of Ur
7. 3.5 Art of Akkad and Ur
8. VIDEO: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
9. 3.6 Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
10. VIDEO: Assyrian Art
11. VIDEO: Lamassu
12. VIDEO: Neo-Babylonian Art
13. 3.7: Art of the Persian Empire
1. Chapter 4 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 4.1 Ancient Egypt
4. 4.2 Egyptian Art
5. 4.3 Materials & Techniques
6. VIDEO: Seated Scribe
7. 4.4 The Great Pyramids of Giza
8. 4.5 Pyramid of Khufu
9. 4.6 Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
10. 4.7 Pyramid of Menkaure
11. VIDEO: House Altar (Amarna Period)
12. VIDEO: Portrait Head of Queen Tiye
13. VIDEO: Bust of Nefertiti
14. VIDEO: Ramesses II
1. Chapter 5 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 5.1 The Early Aegean (3000–700 BCE)
4. VIDEO: Geometric Greek Krater
5. VIDEO: Black Figure Amphora
6. VIDEO: Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater
7. VIDEO: New York Kouros
8. VIDEO: Spear Bearer
9. VIDEO: The Greek Temple
10. VIDEO: East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia
11. VIDEO: Myron, Discus Thrower
12. VIDEO: The Parthenon
13. VIDEO: Parthenon’s East Pediment
14. VIDEO: Parthenon Frieze
15. VIDEO: Parthenon Metopes
16. VIDEO: Erechtheion
1. Chapter 6 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. VIDEO: Lysippos: Farnese Herucles
4. VIDEO: After Praxiteles, Venus
5. VIDEO: Barberini Faun
6. VIDEO: Dying Gaul
7. VIDEO: Nike of Samothrace
8. VIDEO: The Pergamon Altar
9. VIDEO: Boxer at Rest
10. VIDEO: Alexander Mosaic
11. VIDEO: Laocoön and his Sons
12. VIDEO: Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman
13. 6.1 ** Petra: An Introduction
14. 6.2 Petra: Rock Cut Facades
15. 6.3 ** Petra: Urban Metropolis
1. Chapter 7 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 7.1 Etruscan Art
4. 7.2 Sarcophagus of the Spouses
5. 7.3 Etruscan Necropolises
6. 7.4 Etruscan Art Explained by the Met
1. Chapter 8 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. VIDEO: Ancient Rome
4. VIDEO: Digging Through Time
5. VIDEO: Temple of Portunus
6. VIDEO: Veristic Male Portrait
7. VIDEO: The Pantheon
8. 8.1 Augustus of Primaporta
9. VIDEO: Painted Garden
10. VIDEO: Head of Augustus
11. 8.2 Ara Pacis
12. VIDEO: Villa of Mysteries
13. VIDEO: Colosseum
1. Chapter 9 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. VIDEO: Arch of Titus
4. 9.1 Hadrian's Villa
5. VIDEO: Maritime Theater, Hadrian's Villa
6. VIDEO: Pair of Centaurs
7. 9.2: Column of Trajan
8. VIDEO: Medea Sarcophagus
9. 9.3 Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
10. VIDEO: Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
11. VIDEO: Tetrarchs
12. 9.4 Arch of Constantine
13. VIDEO: Colossus of Constantine
1. Chapter 10 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 10.1 Introduction to Early Christianity
4. 10.2 Early Christian Art
5. 10.3 After Constantine
6. 10.4 Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus
7. 10.5 Santa Pudenziana
8. 10.6 Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
9. 10.7 Santa Sabina
10. VIDEO: Santa Maria Maggiore
11. VIDEO: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
1. Chapter 11 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 11.1 Early Medieval Art
4. 11.2 Fibulae
5. 11.3 Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
6. 11.4 Medieval Manuscripts
7. 11.5 The Bestiary
8. 11.6 The Lindisfarne Gospels
9. 11.7 Carolingian Art
10. VIDEO: Lindau Gospels Cover
11. 11.8 St. Michael's Church
1. Chapter 12 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. VIDEO: San Vitale
4. 12.1 Iconoclasm
5. 12.2 Hagia Sophia
6. VIDEO: Ivory Panel with Archangel
7. VIDEO: Icon of Saint George
8. VIDEO: Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
1. Chapter 13 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 13.1 Introduction to Islamic Art
4. 13.2 Mosque Architecture
5. 13.3 The Early Period
6. 13.4 Dome of the Rock
7. 13.5 Great Mosque of Cordoba
8. 13.6 Medieval Period
9. 13.7 Pyxis of Al-Mughira
10. 13.8 The Alhambra
11. VIDEO: Ilkhanid Mihrab
12. 13.9 Later Period
13. VIDEO: Qa'a: The Damascus Room
1. Chapter 14 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. 14.1 Introduction to Romanesque Art
4. 14.2 Pilgrimage Routes
5. 14.3 Church Architecture
6. 14.4 Abbaye of Fontenay
7. 14.5 Saint Trophime
8. VIDEO: Last Judgment Tympanum
9. VIDEO: Virgin from Ger
10. 14.6 Historiated Capitals
11. VIDEO: Painting: Wise and Foolish Virgins
12. VIDEO: Bayeux Tapestry
1. Chapter 15 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. VIDEO: St. Denis
4. VIDEO: Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
5. 15.1 Gothic Architecture
6. 15.2 Southwell Minister
7. 15.3 Salisbury Cathedral
8. 15.4 Blanche of Castile
1. Final Exam Guide

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Art History I

Course curriculum

Art History I

Chapter 1: Introduction to Art History

Chapter 2: The Birth of Art

Chapter 3: The Ancient Near East

Chapter 4: The Art of Ancient Egypt

Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece—Part I

Chapter 6: The Art of Ancient Greece—Part II

Chapter 7: The Art of the Etruscans

Chapter 8: The Art of Ancient Rome—Part I

Chapter 9: The Art of Ancient Rome—Part II

Chapter 10: Early Christian Art

Chapter 11: Early Medieval, Carolingian and Ottonian Art

Chapter 12: Byzantine Art

Chapter 13: The Arts of the Islamic World

Chapter 14: Romanesque Art

Chapter 15: Gothic Art

Final Exam

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