BAROQUE & ROCOCO ART & ARCHITECTURE (AH2014)

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This course examines the reverberations and multi-faceted reactions to the reform movements known as the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and explores different notions of the Baroque in a global context. We will consider the art and architecture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and France, as well as the art of colonial Latin America and East Asia. Key themes and issues of consideration will include the changing role of religious images; heresy and persuasion in art; colonial art and questions of transmission, reproduction and hybridity; the rise of artists' academies and art theory; the development of genre painting; cabinets of curiosity and collecting; and eroticism, artifice and Orientalism in Rococo art and architecture.

Code: 
AH2014
Name: 
BAROQUE & ROCOCO ART & ARCHITECTURE
Discipline: 
AH (Art History)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Be able to interpret the meaning of works of art based on their visual properties and original contexts.
  2. Develop one’s skills in art historical inquiry, writing, and critical thinking.
  3. Learn to identify major works and the philosophical, religious, and cultural contexts that produced them.
  4. Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI LO1)
  5. Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions (CCI LO2)

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2025 AH2014 BAROQUE & ROCOCO ART & ARCHITECTURE

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