ARTH 271: European Baroque Art

Professor Larry Silver

TR 10:30

Course Description

Introduction to the varieties of art and leading masters in 17th-century European capital centers: Madrid, Rome, Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Prague.

Attention to art-making in the context of absolutist monarchs, the Catholic CounterReformation, the Thirty Years War, and the rise of capitalism as well as art-collecting. Featured artists indude: Goltzius, Rubens, van Dyck, Velazquez, Caravaggio, Bemini, Poussin, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. There will be an intensive examination of works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A WATU-affiliated course.

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