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The objectives of the course are inseparable from your personal learning goals. To assist you in evaluating your achievements, I will translate my expectations for the course into goals and objectives compatible with your own.

Goals — This course should:

  • Provide a history of the functions and forms of portraiture with special emphasis on the period from 1500 to 1700 in Europe.
  • Relate portraits and portrait typologies to their sources in earlier art and literature.

Objectives –By the end of this course you will:

1. Develop the skills that enable you to translate the visual into the verbal by mastering a series of written assignments. You will:

  • Write an autobiography
  • Write a biography
  • Research a  historical biography and then compare  portraits of the historical subjects to their written histories.

2. Learn to recognize and explain the differences between representations of the same individuals by different artists and by the same artists at different times, through study and observation.