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Barbara e. and richard J. franke

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR

IN ART HISTORY, CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES AND THE COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

teaching

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Introductory

Western Art to 1300

Ancient Art from Sumer to Rome

Greek Art and Archaeology (taught in Athens)

Art in Paris, 1593-1661 (taught in both Paris and Chicago)

Greek Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology, I: From the Bronze Age to the Persian Wars

Greek Art and Archaeology, II: From the Persian Wars to the Coming of Rome

Athenian Vase-Painting: Wine, Myth and Politics

Film and the Moving Image

 

Undergraduate/Graduate Seminars

Senior Seminar: Art Historical Methods

Greek Vase-Painting: Style and Politics

The Greek Revolution Revisited: Rethinking Naturalism

Wonder, Grace and Beauty: Greek Sculpture in the Present

 

Graduate Seminars

Graduate Proseminar: Theory and Method in the History of Art

What Is Style (and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It)?

The Treasuries at Delphi and Olympia

Greek Sculpture (traveling seminar with ten days in Greece)

Democratic Athens: Art and Archaeology

Classical Art and Its Histories

Poussin’s Classicism

Thinking Through Ten Films (co-taught with Joel Snyder)

Sculptural Aesthetics

Pindar and the Monuments (co-taught with Leslie Kurke and Boris Maslov)

Film and Philosophy (co-taught with Daniel Morgan)

Practices of Classicism in the French Seventeenth Century (co-taught with Larry Norman)

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