Witnesses to an Age in Transformation

A project supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

THE SCHOLARSHIP
Undergraduate

Three professors in three different departments, Mary Sheriff, (Art), Lloyd Kramer (History), and James Thompson, (English) team-taught a first-year seminar of eighteen students. The seminar, “Seeing the Past,” focused on these three paintings in the context of eighteenth-century art, music, history, politics, literature and religion. One final product of the class was the design of a power-point presentation for each of the three paintings. The power-points are accessible from this site.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Lord Holland

Satan Leaving the Court of Chaos