ARTHIST 224
Power and Piety: the Baroque
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for ARTHIST 224.
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.
Availability 2017
Not taught in 2017
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Erin Griffey
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