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Art & Theory in Baroque Europe

ARTH 344 FALL 2014 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe


SCHEDULE

Monday, September 1 

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

Monday, September 8
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

Monday, September 15
Naturalism
Seminar Report 1: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 2

Monday, September 22
The Passions of the Soul
Seminar Report 2: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 3
Passions of the Soul
Charles Le Brun Expression

Monday, September 29
The Transcendental View of Reality and the Allegorical Tradition
Seminar Report 3: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 4
Allegory
Andrea Alciati, Emblematum Liber (1531)
Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1593)

Monday, October 6
Space
Seminar Report 4: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 5

Monday, October 13
Time
Seminar Report 5: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 6

Monday, October 20
Light
Seminar Report 6: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 7

Monday, October 27
Attitudes to Antiquity
Seminar Report 7: _______________
READING
Martin, Chapter 8

Monday, November 3
The Ideal
READING
Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Trattato della Pittura (1607-1615)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Life of Caravaggio (1672)

Monday, November 10
Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect (1664)
READING
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect

Monday, November 17
SEMINAR CANCELLED

Monday, December 1
Paul Fréart de Chantelou: Bernini in France
Seminar Report 8: _______________
READING
Martin, Appendix B
Filippo Baldinucci, Life of Bernini

Monday, December 8
Academies of Art
Seminar Report 9: _______________
Seminar Report 10: _______________
READING
Martin, pages 249-269
Academies of Art in Florence and Rome
The French Academy in the 17th Century


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