ARTHIST 324

Power and Piety: the Baroque


Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for ARTHIST 324.

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.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for ARTHIST 324.

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2022

Semester 2

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 324: 15 points

Prerequisites

HISTORY 243 and 15 points at Stage I in Art History or 15 points at Stage II in Art History, and 60 points passed

Restrictions

ARTHIST 224, 306