Content

Seeing is not the same as looking, as hearing is not the same as listening. Analytically looking at a work of art is something one can learn. The course ‘Image & Iconography: Meaning in the Visual Arts’ wants to guide students in acquiring the skill of analytical 'looking', which should lead to the description of an image. After all, the insight of the art historian and his task of interpreting begins where the image is adequately understood and articulated.

On the one hand, students learn about the role of image-analytical components such as composition and perspective and, on the other hand, about iconographical issues such as the relationship between word and image and the 'tilting process' of (biblical) narrative prototypes in the image medium within their historical context.

‘Image & Iconography: Meaning in the Visual Arts’ is a ground-breaking, propaedeutic and above all highly interactive course that combines the formal analysis with the substantive recognition of motifs on the basis of well-considered case studies.

Course material

• PowerPoints with images on Toledo
• reader on Toledo

Format: more information

Students are expected to actively attend classes and take notes.