As well as those two on-campus classes, the school has had study-abroad programs, which take students around the globe to view the art and culture of other countries...
...but mostly art :p
In 2005, the destination was Paris. Last year (06), they offered Paris and Italy; having gone to Paris already, I went to Italy. This year, the destination is Spain.
On the 30th of May, I'll be taking off for Spain, and won't be back until the 16th of June (but jet-lag and over-exhausted legs might delay me a day more; we do a lot of walking!).
Some of the cities I will (most likely*) be visiting are Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Madrid and Barcelona.
Why do I mention all this?
To brag and make you all feel bad; haha!
Kidding :p
I mention this because I will be taking a camera and a 2-gig stick of storage space with me, so if anyone would like pictures of something taken, now is the time to let me know; specific pieces of art, statues (c'mon, we're 3D artists :p ), museums, cathedrals, etc...
Two things to keep in mind:
I. I may be limited by (1) where we go, and (2) how anal the musuems/churches we visit are about letting tourists take photographs.
II. Our group will be going to specific places and looking at specific pieces. I've added some keywords below, so that you can get an idea of where I'll be going, and who/what I will be looking at (artists, as well as pieces):
Places (as above): Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Madrid and Barcelona.
Specific artists: Dali, Velasquez, El Greco, Francisco de Goya, Pablo Picasso, Miro, Gaudi, Pacheco and Zubaran.
Art styles and cultural/historical periods/influences: Gothic, Renaissance & Baroque, Baroque, Flemish Baroque, Dutch Baroque, Romanesque, Art Nouveau, African Art ("the first Cubists," so sayeth my reader), Mannerism & Late Renaissance, Reformation & Counter-Reformation, and the influences of Christianity and Islam in Spanish art.
Specific places: Goya's Tomb, various buildings by Gaudi, the Monestary Palace of Phillip II, Palacio Real, Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid, the Patrimonio Nacional.
* "most likely," meaning "is planned, but may change due to weather, time constraints, terrorists, etc..."
), I'm willing to take some requests and go on a photo-splurge. 
)Ó, but now you can count me jealous.
... (and then the best ones of paints on art books) but you wont find photos of the interesting details there so... the curators wont be too anal about taking pictures IF you dont do it with flash...
