This unit provides an understanding of the art produced by the new bourgeois societies in northern Europe in terms of the contrasting aristocratic court cultures of France and Britain and the Protestant Republics of Holland and Germany. It entails in-depth exploration of world calibre artists such as Van Dyke, Frans Hals, Vermeer and Rembrandt as well as lesser known artists; architects such as Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor; and anonymous popular artists. While religious conflict provides a major theme, the big difference from the art of the Counter-Reformation in Southern Europe at Level 2 of the History of Art major is that resistance to idolatry provided the... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: MEMS2001 Classical Traditions and Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Europe or any Level 2 History of Art core unit
