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Academic Year 2003/2004
Violence and Redemption: Themes in European Art of the Seventeenth Century
ARHA 232 FA
This course surveys works of European painting and sculpture in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century in Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands. We will examine works by Caravaggio, Bernini,
Velazquez,
Rubens and others and relate them to their social, political, and religious contexts. The course will, in particular, explore the ways in which images of violence--including war, martyrdom, seduction, and rape--both
inform
and contrast with depictions of religious experience--including conversion, revelation, ecstasy, gnosis, and theophany--often in the same work and between different works by the same artist. Other themes will include
the
nature and role of Baroque "realism," the parallel tradition of Baroque "classicism," art as princely "propaganda," the relationship between art and literature, questions of gender, portraiture and identity, and the role
of the spectator.
MAJOR READINGS
Howard Hibbard, CARAVAGGIO
Tod A. Marder, BERNINI AND THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE
Jonathan Brown, VELAZQUEZ: PAINTER AND COURTIER
Svetlana Alpers, THE MAKING OF RUBENS
Robin Blake, ANTHONY VAN DYCK: A LIFE,
1599-1641
Daniel Arasse, VERMEER:
FAITH IN PAINTING
Ernst Van de Wetering, REMBRANDT: THE PAINTER AT WORK
Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, NICOLAS POUSSIN: FRIENDSHIP AND THE LOVE OF PAINTING
Mary Vidal, WATTEAU'S PAINTED CONVERSATIONS:
ART, LITERATURE, AND TALK IN
SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Svetlana Alpers, Michael Baxandall, TIEPOLO AND THE PICTORIAL INTELLIGENCE
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Midterm exam, group presentation, research paper, final exam.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
No prior experience in art history is necessary.
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: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: DAC100
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 30)
- SR. major: 3 Jr. major: 3
- SR. non-major: 3 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 9 FR: 9
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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