AH4206 Raphael and his Reception

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

tba

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Module Staff

Dr Ariella Minden

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Module description

The module explores the work and career of Raphael, looking at the development of his art from his early years in Umbria, through his study of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Florence, to his mature work in papal Rome. Although he died at 37, Raphael has always been recognised as one of the greatest painters of the High Renaissance and one who influenced profoundly the development of later painting and artistic theory. His compositions were always admired and studied, and he became the cornerstone of the training of the Academies of art. This module examines the whole range of Raphael's output and considers his reception in seventeenth-century Italy and France, eighteenth-century Europe, nineteenth century England and Germany and the twentieth century. From the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Raphael epitomised the Italian Renaissance for artists, critics, theorists and art historians.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

1 x 3000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour lecture and related contact time (x 11 weeks), 1 x 1-hour seminar (x 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

17

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

285

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.