Professor Paul Barolsky brilliantly combines images of Italian Renaissance art with text from the day in his fascinating lectures. Known affectionately as "Mr. B" to all his students, Mr. B has his students write journals about what strikes them in the class each week. By doing so, his students writing skills not only improve, but they also learn, as Mr. B wrote, "the relation between image and text".
Mr. B's classes also encourage open discussion among his students. Although he is known for his expertise in Renaissance art, Mr. B openly considers and acknowledges all student observations. His classes further create a close-knit, because students not allowed to sit in the last few rows. Instead of a sparse crowd spread across a large room, his classes are more intimate than most lectures.
His classes are friendly and welcoming environments, in which Mr. B is able to shed an intelligent light on the subjects he teaches. Even if art history isn't your favorite subject, a class from Mr. B will be an entertaining and enlightening class to enjoy.
-Emily Benedict
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