An examination of art and architecture in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with special concentration on the preeminence of Rome. (Rome Center students are expected to visit and study certain works of art in their original location).
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate knowledge of forms, ideas, themes, techniques, and functions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Western European art and their relation to relevant cultural, social and historical contexts; They acquire skills to critically analyze these relationships and to understand the scholarship and issues related to Baroque studies.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate knowledge of forms, ideas, themes, techniques, and functions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Western European art and their relation to relevant cultural, social and historical contexts; They acquire skills to critically analyze these relationships and to understand the scholarship and issues related to Baroque studies.