Art History: The Renaissance in Northern Europe and Italy [MLitt]

The programme is comprised of a core course designed to give you an overview of methods and approaches as well as seminar opportunities to engage directly with original works of art; and optional courses, enabling you to create your own Masters programme.

It also allows you to work in an interdisciplinary capacity, selecting courses from across the College of Arts, according to personal interests. Language and renaissance palaeography study are among the optional courses available. The programme convenor will work with you to ensure a sensible portfolio of courses is constructed, according to your personal aims and objectives.

Core teaching and research training are delivered during the first semester. Optional courses may be taken during the first and second semesters, followed by dissertation research. The dissertation provides an opportunity for you to identify an area of interest and to create a research project that allows in-depth critical exploration of it.

• Defining the Renaissance: Objects, Theories, Categories
• Research Methods in Practice

• Death and the Art of Dying in the Renaissance North
• Masters of the Venetian Renaissance: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese
• From Gothic to Renaissance in Northern Europe
• The Renaissance Palace as Portrait
• Work Placement

You will be taught by a team of experts in different aspects of Renaissance art history based at the University of Glasgow:

• Dr Debra Strickland – illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, monsters, images of non-Christians in Christian art, and the painting of Hieronymus Bosch.
• Dr Tom Nichols - Venetian Renaissance art and the imagery of social outcasts
• Dr John Richards – Humanism and the visual arts; ‘Gothic’/’Renaissance’ interface.
• Dr Sally Rush - the visual and material culture of the Renaissance court