Oct 05, 2024

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

AH 224 Baroque Art

(4 Credits)
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. Field trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to study the Baroque collection are included.

Offered in odd years.