#  HAA 256g 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2018 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

*Antiquity in Ruins: The Renaissance Imaginary*  
Cammy Brothers (Northeastern)  
Monday, 1-3pm  
Why and when did broken things come to be valued as objects of aesthetic appreciation? The seminar begins with Petrarch and his idea of fragments, and follows the trail through the fifteenth and sixteenth century, when artists, sculptors, architects and humanists took a passionate interest in fragments and ruins of all kinds. They fix them, they draw them, they depict them, they reuse them, and they learn from them. The course considers and interrogates each of these manifestations of interest. While the idea of the classicism we have inherited from the 18th century suggests a static and authoritative past, in the Renaissance the interpretation of antiquity was a topic of great contention. As we delve into these debates, we explore what counted as ancient, how artists imitated and competed with the past, and how they remade it.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Spring 2018 ](/classterm/spring-2018)