HAA 0303 Landscape Painting, 1500-1700

(offered infrequently)

Landscape as a viable subject of painting emerged slowly in Europe during the Renaissance but, by the end of the seventeenth century, had become the most popular category of art made in the Dutch Republic, and was produced throughout Europe, though predominantly by artists trained north of the Alps. Its status as a serious genre of art with the expressive potential of religious, mythological and historical subjects took much longer. The course will explore reasons for the slow acceptance of landscape, the role it played before it became an independent genre, and the cultural, political and religious developments that affected these developments. Among artists to be discussed are Patenir, Giorgione, Altdorfer, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Titian, Elsheimer, Rubens, Hercules Seghers, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Claude and Poussin.