Spanish Art History: From the Golden Age to the Twentieth Century

Instructor

Elena Peñalver Barrios

Location

Course Description

This course consists of learning the language associated with architecture, sculpture and painting, that is to say, the three major art forms. Once these concepts are learned, we begin the study of the history of Spanish art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, but not without a summary of Prehistoric times to the Middle Ages. The course also includes the study of the life and work of several important painters of Spanish history: el Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso and Dalí.In the Spring Semester this course is offered in Block A.