Reading Schedule

Week

Date & Reading

Topic

Week 1:
Adams pp 23-27, 29-32, 35-47

Ancient Art and Architecture

Week 2:
Adams pp 51-61, 64-66

Week 3
•Adams pp 70-73, 83-86, 88, 90-92, 95-105, 109, 112-115
•On Parthenon architecture: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/greece-etruria-rome/v/parthenon

•On Parthenon sculpture: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/greece-etruria-rome/v/phidias-parthenon-sculptures

• Adams pp 117-118, 122-123, 130-143, 146-149
• On Head of a Roman Patrician: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/ap-ancient-rome/a/head-of-a-roman-patrician

Ancient Roman Art and Architecture

• Adams pp 153-167
• On the split of the Roman Empire and birth of Constantinople: https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/the-death-of-constantine-threatened-to-split-the-roman-empire/65238?auto=true
• On the mosaics in San Vitale: https://smarthistory.org/san-vitale/
• On Hagia Sophia:
  https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/medieval-europe-islamic-world/v/hagia-sophia-istanbul

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

• Adams pp. 171-175
• On the Stupa in Sanchi: https://education.asianart.org/explore-resources/background-information/stupa
• On Elephanta caves:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s8uB4Rlooc
• On Dancing Shiva or Shiva Nataraja: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/south-asia/hindu-art/a/shiva-as-lord-of-the-dance-nataraja

Architecture in South and East Asia, Islamic Architecture

•Adams pp. 174-177, 185-191, 196-197, 199-202, 205-213
•On the Plan of St. Gall, a plan for an ideal monastic community, read the first page of the site: https://tinyurl.com/y2jc2c6w

Medieval Art and Architecture continued

•Adams 222-231, 234-237, 244-246, 250-251, 255, 266-273, 283-297, 304, 319-322, 325-328

Renaissance Art and Architecture

Renaissance continued

Adams 333-334, 339-341, 344-349, 353-356, 363-365, 385-387

Baroque Art and Neoclassicism

•Adams 398, 402-408, 415-418, 425-428, 433-439

•Adams 452-459, 464, 470-471, 480-481, 505, 521-523, 525

Post Impressionism and Abstraction