ARTH104m2 Spring 2006
HEAVEN AND HELL
Barbara Resnik
E-mail: bad@simons-rock .edu
Tel: 7411
E-reserves: res-104m2

SYLLABUS

REQUIRED TEXTS
Walter Bosing, Bosch: Between Heaven and Hell
The Bible King James Version
The Bible and Its Saints
Thomas Kren and Rogier S. Wieck Ed. The Visions of Tondal
Alice K Turner, The History of Hell

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

WEEK  1

TUES. MAR. 14  INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY AND CONCEPTS OF HELL

READING:
Baraka, Dante's System of Hell, Ereserve
Turner, The History of Hell, P.1-66

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
1. Is there a common theme about what hell is thought to be like?
2. Are there common geographic elements in different cultures/religions?
3. Are heaven and hell "moral concepts?
4. How are creation myths related to ideas about heaven and hell?

THURS. MAR. 16 INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY AND CONCEPTS OF HELL

READING:
Baraka, Dante's System of Hell, Ereserve
Turner, The History of Hell, P.1-66

LISTENING:
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (on reserve)

WEEK 2

TUES., MAR. 21 LAST JUDGEMENT/APOCALYPSE
Gilgamesh, Greek and Early Christian

READING:
Turner,The History of Hell ,P. 66- 89
Revelations

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Barnes, Bernadine Ann Dante, Beatrice and Michelangelo

ART:
Giselbertus: The Last Judgment Tympanum at Autun ; DETAILS
Mission at the Apocalypse tympanum at Vezeley
Giotto: The Last Judgment
Van der weyden, The Last Judgment
Michelangelo, The Last Judgment

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
What is meant by the terms revelation, last judgment and apocalypse?

THURS. MAR. 23 APOCALYPSE

READING:

Bernadine Barnes, Metaphorical Painting: Michelangelo, Dante and the Last Judgment
Sigmund Freud,  Moses and Michelangelo

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:

Read and take notes on Revelation; choose a Chapter and analyze for class. Read with the idea
of applying the narrative to a visual medium.

ART:
Durer
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
The Knight , Death and the Devil

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION: TBA

WEEK 3

TUESDAY APRIL. 4 DESCENT INTO HELL: WHO RULES IN HEAVEN AND HELL?
READING:
Thomas Kren and Rogier S. Wieck Ed. The Visions of Tondal (ALL)
Bosing, Bosch: Between Heaven and Hell
Turner, The History of Hell, P. 89-113 (The Middle ages), P. 145-157(The High Middle Ages)
P.158-176(The Reformation)

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Pagels, Elaine H., The Gnostic Gospels BT1390 .
Eco, Umberto Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Buettner, Bridget, Profane Illuminations and Secular.....
VIEWING:
Monteverdi, Orfeo(on reserve)

ART:
Simon Marmion, (*attrib.)Visions of Tondal

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
1. What is the difference between the "visionary accounts of hell and heaven and the "harrowing of hell or limbo?
2. Into which category does "Tondal" fall? Orfeo?

THURS, APRIL. 6 WHO ARE THE SAVED AND WHO ARE THE DAMNED?
ART:

Breughel,
Fall of the Rebel Angels
Dulle Griet
Battle Between Carnival and Lent

WEEK 4

TUES. APRIL. 11 TEMPTATION AND REDEMPTION
READING:
Bosing , Bosch, P 25-32 and 79-86
Anonymous, Everyman, (c.1485, a medieval morality play)

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Sullivan, Margaret Bruegels Proverbs
Tuttle ,Virginia C. Bosch's Images of Poverty
ART:
Bosch:

The Tabletop of the 7 deadly Sins
The Ship of Fools
The Haywain:

Interior

Exterior

Breughel, Seven Deadly Sins

ART:
Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony
Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece, The Temptation of St. Anthony

WEEK 5

TUES. APRIL. 18 PARADISO/WHAT DOES HEAVEN LOOK LIKE?
DANTE , BEATRICE, AND THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

READING:
Bosing, Bosch, P.45-67
Turner, The History of Hell, P.133-144 (Dantes Inferno) P. 189-198 (The Mechanical Universe)
Warner, Alone of All Her Sex, Dante, Beatrice and the Virgin Mary p. 160-174 (on reserve)
Pope Hennessey, Paradiso TBA
Dante, Paradiso, Excerpts on line TBA LINK TO THE TRANSLATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Warren, Charles, 1868-1954 Brunelleschi's Dome and Dufays Motet
Bynum, Caroline Walker Body of Christ in the Later Middle Ages
Dixon, Laurinda S.Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights Tryptich
Gibson, Walter Bosch's Dreams
Moxey, Keith, Making Genius
Warner, Dante Beatrice and the Queen of Heaven

LISTENING:
Dufay, Nuper rosrum flores (on reserve)
Bingen, O Viridissima Virgo

ART:
Piero della Francesca, Madonna della Miseracordia
Brunellschi, The Dome of Florence Cathedral

Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece:

The Resurrection

Celestial Chorus

Memling, The Celestial Choir

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
1. What is the power of earthly love to bring one to the plentitude of "beatific vision"and redemption?
2. What are the similarities and differences between Dante's personal Beatrice and the Queen of Heaven of the Christian faithful ?
3. What is the relationship between the good, the redeemed and the city of god and the Light
4. How is this manifest in art? Give examples.

Each person will select a canto and a diPaolo illustration as the basis for discussion and essay (2 pages) topic.
Due for the next class.


THURS., APRIL. 20 PARADISO/WHAT DOES HEAVEN LOOK LIKE?

ART:

DiPaolo,Paradiso (Illustrations to the Divine Comedy)

Bosch:

Garden of Earthly Delights

Creation of the World

WEEK 6

TUES. APRIL. 25 ANTICHRIST
HOW ARE HEAVEN AND HELL RELATED TO GOOD AND EVIL?

READING:
Lotte Brand Phillip, The Prado Epiphany of Heronimous Bosch"  e-reserves

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Jonathan Reiss, The Renaissance Antichrist
Introduction
The Chapel Decorations
Purgatory the Antichrist in the Capella Nuova
The Rule of the Antichrist
Signorelli's Many Portraits
Schapiro, Meyer, Musicula Discoboli
ART:

Bosch, The Epiphany

Signorelli, Orvieto Frescoes

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
1.Who is the anti-christ and how is it defined?
2. What is the meaning of gods punishment?
3. What is the purpose of gods punishment?
4. How are we to understand the wrath of God and punishment in earthly terms?
5. Are the good subject to punishment? To damnation? 

THURS. APRIL 27 HOW ARE HEAVEN AND HELL RELATED TO GOOD AND EVIL? cont.

WEEK 7
TUES. MAY  2  OTHER AND EVIL: PLAGUE AND THE FACE AND COLOR  OF THE DAMNED

FINAL PROJECTS DUE

READINGS:
Jonathan Reiss, The Renaissance Antichrist,  Orvieto Antichrist: the Jew and the Papal State 

ART:
Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
Van derWeyden The Beaune Altarpiece
Signorelli, Orvieto Fresco

HEAVEN AND HELL 109M2 HARDCOPY RESERVES AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Riess, Jonathan B. The Renaissance Antichrist : Luca S ND623.S5
Barnes, Bernadine Ann. Michelangelo's Last Judgment : the ND623.B9
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904- Late antique, early Christian and m N7832 .S
Hayum, Andree. The Isenheim altarpiece : God's med N6888.G7
Schapiro, Meyer, Romanesque art / NB175 .S
Goffen, Rona, Piety and patronage in Renaissance ND1432.I
Warner, Marina, Alone of all her sex : the myth and BT602 .W
Petroff, Elizabeth. Body and soul : essays on medieval BV5077.E
Miles, Margaret Ruth. Carnal knowing : female nakedness a BT704 .M
Pagels, Elaine H., The gnostic gospels BT1390 .
McGinn, Bernard, Antichrist : two thousand years of BT985 .M
Bynum, Caroline Walker Fragmentation and redemption : essa BT741.2
Ferry, David Gilgamesh, A New Rendering in English PERSONAL

Bynum, Caroline Walker BODY OF CHRIST IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
Sullivan, Margaret BRUEGELS PROVERBS
Dixon, Laurinda S. BOSCH'S GARDEN OF DELIGHTS TRIPTYCH
Warren, Charles, 1868-1954 BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME AND DUFAY'S MOTET
Barnes, Bernadine Ann DANTE, BEATRICEAND MICHELANGELO
Tuttle ,Virginia C.. BOSCH'S IMAGE OF POVERTY
Buettner, Bridgett PROFANE ILLUMINATIONS, SECULAR ILLU
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 MOSES OF MICHELANGELO
Riess, Jonathan B. RENAISSANCE ANTICHRIST
Introduction
The Chapel Decorations
Purgatory the Antichrist in the Capella Nuova
The Rule of the Antichrist
Signorelli's Many Portraits
Orvieto Antichrist: the Jew and the Papal State
Phillip, Lotte Brand PRADO EPIPHANY BY JEROME BOSCH
Gibson, Walter BOSCH'S DREAMS
GILGAMESH
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904- MUSCIPULA DIABOLI - THE SYMBOLISM
Monteverdi ORFEO VIDEO 694
Andrei Rublev VIDEO 1121 AND 1172
Orphee Orpheus VIDEO 286
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695 DIDO AND AENEAS PERSONAL CD
Bingen et al AN INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MUSIC PERSONAL CD

You are required to write 4 essays chosen from the above materials. You may choose either a scholarly article listed above or a chapter from one of the books on reserve. Do not choose a text listed under Reading on the Syllabus. One of these essays may take as its subject a video or CD listed above.

The essays should set out the central idea of the essay and a brief discussion of how it is developed by the author. How does this article contribute to our understanding of heaven and hell in medieval and renaissance art and thought? (3 pages)