Welcome

Welcome to the course blog. This is a forum for you, the students of this course, to interact with course content. You will be able to post comments to the blog. These may range from thoughts or observations on the works, comments on other student posts, to questions regarding assignments or deadlines. I will add comments and links to interesting material as well. Please be respectful of all users in your posts and comments. I am looking forward to a great semester with all of you!

Course Links

This is a section where I will post links to interesting sites related to the course content. Feel free to post comments on any of the things you see on these!

General Sites

Comprehensive list of links (by topic and artists):
https://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/northern-renaissance.html
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Vaneyck/VAN_EYCK.HTM
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/optg/hd_optg.htm

Predecessors of the ars nova

For a biography of Claus Sluter:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/s/sluter/biograph.html
For more information on the Tres Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/ducdeberry/ducdeberry.htm
http://library.randolphcollege.edu/hours/tresriches_paper.html

Robert Campin
More on the Merode Altarpiece:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/euwl/ho_56.70.htm
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/campin.html
Biography:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/91338/Robert-Campin

Jan van Eyck
Biography:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eyck/hd_eyck.htm
More on the Arnolini Portrait:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG186
More on the Ghent Altarpiece:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ghnt/hd_ghnt.htm
Short movie on the Ghent Altarpiece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHAjHgLQQ4U

Research Links

Here is the link to the OhioLink catalogue. Through this site you can check out books online from college and university libraries throughout Ohio with your CCAD ID number:
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

Link to the Dartmouth Writing Programs site on writing art history papers. Great information about types of art history papers, pre-writing strategies, and writing strategies:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/arthistory.shtml