Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Individual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Methodological transformations: 1970s and 1980s
    • 1 Methodological transformations: 1970s and 1980s
    • 1.1 The new art history
    • 1.1.1 Reformulation
    • 1.1.2 From subject to subjectivity
    • 1.2 How can subjects act critically or independently?
    • 1.3 Foucault, ‘What is an author?’
    • 1.4 Foucault’s author function
    • 1.5 Subjectification: self fashioning
    • 1.5.1 Greenblatt on Holbein’s Ambassadors
    • 1.5.2 Ambassadors
    • 2 Raphael, prince of painters
    • 2.1 Misconceptions and misreadings
    • 2.2 Vasari and the reception of Raphael
    • 2.3 Critiques of Vasari, by Freud, and Kris and Kurz
    • 2.4 Other responses to Renaissance artists
    • 2.4.1 Positivism
    • 2.4.2 Vasari’s legacy
    • 2.4.3 Artist as genius
    • 2.5 Raphael’s death: the primary sources
    • 2.6 ‘Raphael’ in death
    • 2.7 A divine Raphael
    • 2.8 Christ’s portrait
    • 2.9 Raphael’s portrait
    • 2.10 The intersubjectivity of Raphael and Castiglione
    • 2.10.1 Raphael paints Castiglione
    • 2.10.2 Castiglione ‘paints’ Raphael
    • 2.11 Identity and style
    • 2.11.1 Raphael and Michelangelo
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements