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Academic Year 2004/2005


Images of Power: Patronage and the Early Modern Court
ARHA 333 SP

Crosslistings:
COL 333

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

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005


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