| Abstract: | This course examines and surveys the art and architecture of the ancient
Mediterranean civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, Ancient
Egypt, the Bronze Age Aegean, Ancient Greece, Ancient Tuscany (Etruscan), and
Ancient Rome. The goal is to understand the works of art and architecture
themselves, as products of skill and technology, and to understand the culture
they embody and to recognize and interpret their ability to change the future. |
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