2023-24 Academic Catalog

This course offers an in-depth view of four of the greatest Spanish masters of all time—El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, and Picasso. The course combines class lectures at the Complutense University in Madrid with weekly museum visits and excursions outside Madrid to study, in person, iconic works of Western art such as El Greco's The Disrobing of Christ in Toledo's cathedral, Velázquez' Las Meninas and Goya's Black Paintings at the Prado Museum, and Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofía Museum. Special attention will be given to artistic theory in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above