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SCHEDULE
Wednesday, August 31
Introduction
Art Wars – competing ideologies in the history of art
Wednesday, September 7
Taste and Education
READING
 Boccaccio, Bellori, and Michelangelo: High Art vs. Low Art
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Life of Caravaggio (1672)
Wednesday, September 14
Style (Gender and Status)
Attitudes to Antiquity, and The Ideal
READING
Martin, Chapter 8
Classicism: Style and Ideology
Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Trattato della Pittura (1607-1615)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect (1664)
Wednesday, September 21
Style in 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
Wednesday, September 28
Naturalism
Seminar Report 1: Kimberly Colbert
READING
Martin, Chapter 2
Mannerism (Wikipedia)
Mannerism & Anti-Mannerism
Wednesday, October 5
The Passions of the Soul
Seminar Report 2: Kimberlin Uglum
READING
Martin, Chapter 3
Passions of the Soul
Charles Le Brun Expression
Wednesday, October 12
Space
Seminar Report 3: Caroline McDonald
READING
Martin, Chapter 5
Wednesday, October 19
Light
Seminar Report 4: Brittany Behrens
READING
Martin, Chapter 7
Wednesday, October 26
Peter Paul Rubens: On the Imitation of Statues
Seminar Report 5: Kimberly Colbert
READING
Martin, Appendix A
Wednesday, November 2
Paul Fréart de Chantelou: Bernini in France
Seminar Report 6: Kimberlin Uglum
READING
Martin, Appendix B
Filippo Baldinucci, Life of Bernini
Wednesday, November 9
Arnold Houbraken: Life of Rembrandt
Seminar Report 7: Caroline McDonald
READING
Martin, Appendix C
Wednesday, November 16
Philippe de Champaigne: On Poussin's Rebecca and Eliezer
Seminar Report 8: Brittany Behrens
READING
Martin, Appendix E
Wednesday, November 30
Academies of Art
READING
Academies of Art in Florence and Rome
The French Academy in the 17th Century
Wednesday, December 7
Poussinistes vs. Rubenistes
Ancients vs. Moderns
READING
Poussinistes and Rubenists (Wikipedia)
Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Wikipedia)
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