Description
(BUNDLE AND SAVE $12 when you also sign up for related classes #182, 193, 201) After the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in 312, artists in Rome started transforming ancient classical art to new Christian forms, subjects, and purposes, a process that flowered in new ways in Renaissance and Baroque Rome. We’ll focus on cross-cultural artistic interactions as artists reshaped pagan artistic traditions to new Christian purposes in Constantine’s Old St. Peter’s basilica, in wall paintings and mosaics commissioned by medieval Popes, and in the Sistine Chapel frescoes of Perugino and Michelangelo.
