HAA 2301 Special Topics Baroque - Poussin, Claude, and the Classical Landscape Tradition
This seminar is planned to take advantage of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York next spring devoted to the landscape painting of Nicolas Poussin curated by Pierre Rosenberg [former Director of the Louvre] and with essays by other scholars, including Claire Pace, who has written eloquently about the literary sources of the landscapes of Poussin, Claude and others. There will be a scholarly symposium at the Met. during the run of the show, which I hope the seminar can attend. Students will be encouraged to develop topics that explore the changing status of this genre in Rome (and/or Italy) during the 17th and 18th centuries, its various functions from purely decorative to more serious content, and the differing patronage and reception of the work of Poussin, Claude, Salvator Rosa and Gaspard Dughet during their lifetimes and afterwards in Europe.
