HAA 0350 Baroque Art

(offered once a year)

This course will focus on the most significant artists working in 17th century Italy (Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Algardi, Ribera, Cortona, Poussin, Claude), Spain (Zurbaran, Velázquez, Murillo), France (Georges de la Tour, Champaigne, the Le Nains, Puget, Le Brun), Flanders (Rubens, Van Dyck) and Holland (Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Vermeer), and will also emphasize the rise of new themes (portraiture, landscape, still life and scenes of daily life) and the growth of middle-class patronage of the visual arts. The broader political and cultural context of these images will also be considered.