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Apr 23, 2024
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ARTH 225 - Geniuses, Corruption, and Godliness: The Politics, Patronage, and People of Renaissance and Baroque Art 3 hours
A survey of Northern and Southern Renaissance and Baroque art, this course traces the development of visual culture from the 14th to the beginning of the 18th century. The Renaissance was a seminal era in the history of art not only due to its philosophical, political, and social foundations, but because artists became known and celebrated for their achievements and were sought after by both secular and religious patrons and institutions. That influence extended into the Baroque, as did the integration of advancements in science and the performing arts, in order to produce dynamic visual compositions. As in the Renaissance, religion was a central theme, but with a number of reformative movements, religion was addressed in the Baroque in a much more allegorical, rather than narrative, manner. The Baroque also saw the expansion of genre painting, portraiture, and still lifes as well as media such as oil painting and printmaking. This course emphasizes critical thinking through the comparative analysis of eras and regions by looking at the developments from the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance to the Baroque periods in the North (Germany, the Low Countries-present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg-France, England) and the South (Italy, Spain).
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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