ARTH 326 - The Drama of the Baroque

Credits: 4

This class looks at Baroque painting, sculpture, and architecture, investigating the purposes and effects of its theatrical forms of address. It also focuses on urban space and the dramas that interrupted daily life-from parades, the reception of diplomats, and the crowning of heads of state to the staging of trials and executions, votive processions, banquets, weddings, funerals, and other rites of passage within which richly costumed individuals entered baroque systems of display. Coverage will move from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries; centers of production include Italy, England, France, Spain, and the Vice-Royalties of New Spain and Peru. Fulfills pre-1800 requirement for Art History major. Prerequisite: any 100- or 200-level course in Art History.