ARHA231 - Baroque Architecture 1550-1750

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Academic Year 2002/2003

Baroque Architecture 1550-1750
ARHA 231 FA

This course covers European architecture and urbanism in the "long" seventeenth-century. Lectures will explore the evolution of Baroque architecture in Italy, beginning with Michelangelo's "mannerism," to include the various interpretations and reactions to those developments in Germany, France, and England. Individual works will be discussed as attempts to integrate considerations of purpose, patronage, site requirements, planning, construction, and style.

MAJOR READINGS

James Ackerman, THE ARCHITECTURE OF MICHELANGELO
Robert Berger, A ROYAL PASSION: LOUIS XIV AS PATRON OF ARCHITECTURE
Anthony Blunt, BORROMINI
Kerry Downes, THE ARCHITECTURE OF WREN
Howard Hibbard, CARLO MADERNO AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE 1580-1630
Tod A. Marder, BERNINI AND THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE
H. A. Meek, GUARINO GUARINI AND HIS ARCHITECTURE
Henry Millon, BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE
Rudolf Wittkower, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1600-1750 (REV. ED)

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Prior completion of ARHA 151 may be helpful, but is not a formal prerequisite

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Gerbino,Anthony

Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: DAC100

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 30)

SR. major: 6 Jr. major: 6

SR. non-major: 4 Jr. non-major: 4 SO: 5 FR: 5

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003