First Look: Interpreting Early European Artistic Renderings of the New World, Seminar Resources, Online Professional Development Seminars for History and Literature Teachers, National Humanities Center


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First Look:
Interpreting Early European Artistic Renderings of the New World

An Online Professional Development Seminar

10 A.M.
December 2, 2009

Leader: Michael Gaudio

Associate Professor of Art History
University of Minnesota

Syllabus

(Please review the seminar presentation carefully. It contains
images, texts, and interpretative questions.)

Assigned Readings
1. "Illustrating the New World," from the National Humanities Center's online toolbox, American Beginnings: The European Presence in North America, 1492-1690.
  - Note and Discussion Questions
  - Theodore de Bry, engravings and publication of Harriot's account of the 1584 Roanoke expedition and the Algonquian Indians, 1590 (PDF)
  - Theodore de Bry, engravings and publication of Le Moyne's account of the 1564 French settlement at Fort Caroline and the Timucua Indians, 1591 (PDF)
Seminar Presentation (PowerPoint, 8MB)
Seminar Evaluation (Available on day of seminar.)

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