Art History 250: Introduction To Renaissance and Baroque European Art

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Art History 250

Introduction to Renaissance and Baroque European Art


Professor Claudia Swan T/TH 11-12:20
This introductory course surveys major monuments and historically and aesthetically significant works of art produced in southern and northern Europe between ca. 1400 and ca. 1700. What did it take and what did it mean to produce a painting, or to work in such other media as fresco, engraving, drawing, sculpture, and architecture in Europe during the early modern period? Throughout the course, we will focus on the relationship between art and society, and we will explore ways in which western European art of this era responds to encounters with the New Worlds to the east and west. Students may expect to become familiar with works by such Italian artists as Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio, Bernini, and Borromini; and northern artists such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Drer, Hans Holbein, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Nicolas Poussin, and many others. The role of naturalism in the arts, the invention of perspective, theories and practices of the imagination, the discovery of oil paint, and the print and scientific revolutions will feature prominently in our considerations on the history of Renaissance and Baroque art.

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