Classical Foundations: The Copenhagen Collections

Spring Semester only | 3 credits | Elective
Majors: Art History and Classics

Classical Greek and Roman culture have served as the foundation of European art and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. This course forms a study of main elements of the classical heritage and ways in which it has infl uenced European art, architecture, and culture ever since the Renaissance.

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Field Studies

Rudolph Tegners Museum

Here, students actively compare the sculptures they have seen in the huge Copenhagen collection of ancient Greek and Roman art to the works of Danish symbolist sculptor Rudolph Tegners (1873-1950), revealing the influence of classical art on Danish culture in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Various Copenhagen Museums

Students in Classical Foundations spend nearly half of their class time in local museums, like the Danish National Gallery, Ny Carlsburg Glyptotek, and the Statens Museum for Kunst, familiarizing themselves with the huge Danish collection of ancient art. This allows them to experience Copenhagen as a neo-classical city when the class visits local churches and collections art from the late 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, like that of Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Instructors

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  Thyge C. Bro

  Mag.art. (Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, 1984). External lecturer in art history at the University of Copenhagen, 1985-1998. External lecturer in classical archaeology at the University of Southern Denmark, 1998-2000. With DIS since 2006.