ART-213: Art in the Age of Rembrandt and Kingship

Department
Credits 3.00
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Instructional Method
Lecture
Traces the evolution, definition and dissemination of Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo art from 1510-1750 A.D., including absolutism and the bourgeois in the age of Rembrandt. Examines 17th-century architecture; the influence of the Counter-Reformation; the Italian translation of stone to flesh and heavenly vistas; Rubens and the artist as celebrity, and Caravaggio: the bad boy as artist; absolutism in France and its aristocratic art; Rembrandt and the Little Dutch Masters; Vermeer's ethereal imagery; Rococo and the Salon: wit and subtlety; Rousseau's back-to-nature movement and the Enlightenment; and the expressive and spiritual use of light in images by Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts. [3 credits]