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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AH 224 Baroque Art


This course focuses on art and architecture of the 17th century in the European artistic centers of Rome, Paris, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Themes include the impact of the Counter Reformation, relationships between art and power, and the development of portraiture, genre and landscape painting. Artists may include Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. Fieldtrips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to study the Baroque collection are included.

Offered in odd years.