Baroque art
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
J Gregory
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: Two visual arts subjects at first-year level
A study of selected aspects of European art and architecture during the period approximately 1575 to 1675. The course traces the emergence of baroque art in Italy at the turn of the seventeenth century, and subsequent developments and variations in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders and Holland. Artists included are Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velazquez, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Particular themes to be investigated will include the challenge of religious experience and the invigoration of allegory and mythology; the divergent claims of naturalism and idealism; radical reinterpretations of space and vision; the increasing scope of portraiture, and landscape and genre painting; `theatricality' and music in relation to the visual arts; the status and representation of woman; and the role of theories of literature and expression. Twentieth century theory will be considered wherever applicable.
Assessment
Written (4500 words): 75% * Visual test (1.5 hours): 25%
Prescribed texts
Enggass R and Brown J Italy and Spain 1600-1750 (sources and documents) Prentice-Hall, 1970
Wittkower R Art and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 rev. edn, Pelican, 1975