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Academic Year 2002/2003
Images of Power: Patronage and the Early Modern Court
ARHA 333 SP
This course will explore the way that the arts--understood broadly--were used to represent the political structure of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century courts, principally in England, France, and Italy. The course will
begin with segments on the organization of court life, the nature of patron-client relationships, and the role and status of the prince. The course will then address the way that these conditions were reproduced in
various
forms of artistic and cultural patronage, including the decoration and planning of palaces, the conduct of rituals and ceremonies, the design of festivals, the establishment of scientific and literary academies, and the
large-scale
collecting of art and curiosities.
MAJOR READINGS
John Adamson, ed., THE PRINCELY COURTS OF EUROPE: RITUAL, POLITICS AND CULTURE UNDER THE ANCIEN RÉGIME 1500-1750
Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: THE PRACTICE OF SCIENCE IN THE CULTURE OF ABSOLUTISM
Jonathan
Brown and J. H. Elliott, A PALACE FOR
A KING: THE BUEN RETIRO AND THE COURT OF PHILIP IV
Peter Burke, THE FABRICATION OF LOUIS XIV
Peter Burke, THE FORTUNES OF THE COURTIER: THE EUROPEAN RECEPTION OF CASTIGLIONE'S CORTEGIANO
Jeroen Duindam, MYTHS OF
POWER: NORBERT ELIAS AND THE
EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN COURT
Allan Ellenius, ed., ICONOGRAPHY, PROPAGANDA, AND LEGITIMATION
Ernst H. Kantorowicz, THE KING'S TWO BODIES: A STUDY IN MEDIAEVAL POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Sharon Kettering, PATRONS, BROKERS,
AND CLIENTS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRANCE
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, SAINT-SIMON AND THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
José Antonio Maravall, CULTURE OF THE BAROQUE: ANALYSIS OF A HISTORICAL STRUCTURE
Louis Marin, PORTRAIT OF THE KING
Patricia Waddy,
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROMAN PALACES: USE
AND THE ART OF THE PLAN
Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond, eds., LIFE AND THE ARTS IN THE BAROQUE PALACES OF ROME: AMBIENTE BAROCCO
Guy Walton, LOUIS, XIV'S VERSAILLES
Martin Warnke, THE COURT ARTIST: ON
THE ANCESTRY OF THE MODERN ARTIST
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One short paper, one midterm exam, two oral presentations, one final research paper
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:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Gerbino,Anthony
- Times: ...W... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: DAC300
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: 4 Jr. major: 4
- SR. non-major: 4 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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