ARTHIST 324

Power and Piety: the Baroque

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 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.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Erin Griffey

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

ARTHIST 324: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage II in Art History and 60 points passed

Restrictions

ARTHIST 224, 306