AVCS22
Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
Subject code
AVC
Course Number
S22
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Woodward
Course Long Title
Hell and Damnation: Imaging the Afterlife
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course examines works of art produced in Europe from ca. 500 to 1500 C.E. and considers the ways in which the visual arts responded to and helped to shape premodern conceptions of death and the afterlife. How did medieval thinkers and artists envision Heaven, Hell, the Apocalypse, and the Last Judgment? How did visual representations of damnation and salvation change during the medieval period? Students analyze a variety of media (sculpture, paintings, mosaics, tapestries, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, etc.) in order to gain a deeper understanding of the important and complex roles that concepts of judgment, damnation, and salvation played in the daily lives and visual environments of medieval Christians.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
INDS Program Relationship
IDCM - CMS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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