HAA 58m

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
Cammy Brothers (Northeastern)
Monday/Wednesday, 10-11am
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci recently fetched the highest price on record for a work of art, a staggering 450 million dollars.  The price speaks to the tremendous fascination certain Italian Renaissance figures still hold, 500 years after the fact.  The Renaissance had many protagonists, but few loom as large as the three contemporaries and rivals who will form the focus of the course.  In many regards, they shaped the notion of “genius” that we have inherited around themselves. The course builds out from these specific figures to a broader understanding of the Renaissance as an artistic and cultural phenomenon.