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Art & Theory in Baroque Europe

ARTH 344 FALL 2013 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe


SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 4 

Introduction
READING
Requirements
Mannerism and Baroque
Baroque
A 'Baroque' pearl

Wednesday, September 11
The Baroque
READING
Martin, Introduction, and Chapter 1
Raphael, Ansidei Madonna
Guercino, Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery
Heinrich Wölfflin's Renaissance and Baroque
Michelangelo, David
Bernini, David
Rubens, Judgement of Paris
Poussin, Judgement of Solomon
Poussin, Infant Jupiter Nurtured by the Goat Amalthea

Wednesday, September 18
Naturalism
Seminar Report 1: Grace Griffin
READING
Martin, Chapter 2
Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Trattato della Pittura (1607-1615)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Life of Caravaggio (1672)

Wednesday, September 25
The Passions of the Soul
Seminar Report 2: Grace Griffin
READING
Martin, Chapter 3
Passions of the Soul
Charles Le Brun Expression

Wednesday, October 2
The Transcendental View of Reality and the Allegorical Tradition
Seminar Report 3: Lizzie Newhart
READING
Martin, Chapter 4
Allegory
Andrea Alciati, Emblematum Liber (1531)
Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1593)

Wednesday, October 9
Space
Seminar Report 4: Grace Griffin
READING
Martin, Chapter 5

Wednesday, October 16
Time
Seminar Report 5: Lauren Harrell
READING
Martin, Chapter 6

Wednesday, October 23
Light
Seminar Report 6: Lindsay Profenno
READING
Martin, Chapter 7

Wednesday, October 30
Attitudes to Antiquity
Seminar Report 7: Lauren Harrell
READING
Martin, Chapter 8

Wednesday, November 6
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect (1664)
Seminar Report 8: Lindsay Profenno
READING
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect

Wednesday, November 13
Paul Fréart de Chantelou: Bernini in France
Seminar Report 9: Lauren Harrell
READING
Martin, Appendix B
Filippo Baldinucci, Life of Bernini

Wednesday, November 20
Arnold Houbraken: Life of Rembrandt
Seminar Report 10: Lizzie Newhart
READING
Martin, Appendix C

Wednesday, December 4
Academies of Art I
Seminar Report 11: Lindsay Profenno
READING
Martin, pages 249-269
Academies of Art in Florence and Rome

Wednesday, December 11
Academies of Art II
Seminar Report 12: Lizzie Newhart
READING
Martin, pages 249-269
The French Academy in the 17th Century


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