This unit demonstrates how a new conception of art arose in the seventeenth-century southern European courts and academies of Divine Right Catholic monarchies in reaction to the rise of modern science, the mercantile classes and the iconoclastic art of the northern Reformation. It focuses on major works by Michelangelo, El Greco, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Palladio, Bernini, Borromini, Claude, Poussin, Velazquez and Rubens. -- Course Website
Instructor: Winthrop Professor Richard Read
Prerequisites: VISA1000 Great Moments in Art or VISA1001 Art, Technology and Society