ARHI 24340 - Fantasy and Fact: Art of the Baroque Age

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Art History

Description:

This module will introduce students to European art of the 1600s, while encouraging a skill base for reading and interpreting that art. The module will survey the contribution of outstanding individual artists - Caravaggio; Rembrandt; Bernin - within the context of wider patterns of art practice. These will embrace the rise of the modern art market, the tensions between realist and classicist ideologies and the cementing of new categories in art such as still life and landscape, as well as the development of the portrait tradition.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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