ARTHIST 224

Power and Piety: the Baroque

Description

The use of art to display, enhance, and justify political power and piety and to promote political and religious ideologies in the major power centres of seventeenth-century Europe in the Baroque period. Refers to the work of artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Le Brun, Jones and Wren.

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Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Erin Griffey

Reading/Texts

Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture (London: Laurence King).

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

ARTHIST 224: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed

Restrictions

ARTHIST 306, 324