Gothic Images - The Art of Magnificence, 1200-1500

Overview

What you will study

• From the twelfth century, a dazzling new style of art and architecture flourished in Europe. The Gothic aesthetic that Vasari memorably dismissed as “endless pinnacles” pervaded visual culture, from precious gem-encrusted reliquaries, ivories, and illuminated manuscripts to the stained glass of cathedrals, panel paintings, murals and monumental sculpture. 
• Works of art made in the period from 1200-1500 offer fascinating insights into the beliefs, priorities and even anxieties of their patrons and makers. 

• This Gothic Images - The Art of Magnificence, 1200-1500 course offered by The Courtauld Institute of Art will consider the intellectual, theological, philosophical, social and aesthetic ideas which scholars have credited as the driving forces behind the emergence of the Gothic style. 
• A picture can gradually be built up of what might be called the “imaginative universe” which shaped Gothic art, and the different ways in which ideas were distilled into images, in an astonishingly rich visual language.