Art & Art History

Genius and Celebrity

Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night

Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet

Marco Pino's The Resurrection of Lazarus

Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander

Handwriting on the Wall: John Martin's Belshazzar's Feast (1820)

History Painting after Two World Wars: Anselm Kiefer's Die Ungeborenen

Darkness to Light: Garofalo's The Conversion of Saint Paul

Find the Hero: Ary Scheffer's The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia in 1812

Unintended Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (c. 1475-80)

Introduction to History Painting

John Trumbull and Historical Fiction: The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1786)

History at the Academy & the Salon: Jean-Léon Gérôme's Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant

"To Paint the Way the Spartans Spoke": Gavin Hamilton's The Death of Lucretia

Benjamin West's Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Making Memory Visible Through Photography

The Social Function of Games

The West Facade of Chartres

The Amassing of Relics (The Age of Cathedrals)

Where Do Game Ideas Come From?

The Saint Anne Portal

Architectural Innovations of the Gothic

Creating Sequels

Lecture 2: Iterative Design