This course explores visual art and material culture as a revealing window to the past and includes detailed presentations on the various forms of Western architecture, painting, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, book-making, manuscript illumination, theater, opera, dance, fashion, and much more! Included in the course are research tutorials at KSU’s Hale Library and KU’s Watson Library which help students build annotated bibliographies, along with a visit to the Spencer Rare Book Room to view its ancient, medieval, and renaissance manuscript holdings.