AH20230

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students will be able to identify the works of the leading architects in the Western European tradition; understand architecture as the material expression of a complex range of social, cultural, political and economic forces; and describe and analyse the principal characteristics of the various architectural and decorative styles practiced during the period.

Indicative Module Content:

Renaissance classicism.
High Renaissance and Mannerist Classicism.
Andrea Palladio and the villa typology.
Urban planning.
The seventeenth-century in Northern Europe.
Court architecture.
Rococo.
Palladianism in Great Britain and Ireland.
European neoclassicism.
The Gothic Revival.
Industrialisation.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

This is a lecture-based module. Lectures are divided into two sorts: thematic overviews and selected building studies.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Recommendations:

Students should not take any Stage 2 or 3 Art History modules until they have completed their Stage 1 Art History requirements.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Incompatibles:
AH10070 - Dublin: Its Museums

Additional Information:
Students intending to Major in Art History are required to have competed the CORE Stage 1 module, and at least one other Stage 1 Art History module before progression.


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
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