Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- recognise and account for the main stylistic developments in European art and architecture between 1600 and 1850;
- identify and explain those factors involved in shaping the role of the artist during the period covered by this module;
- demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of relevant critical sources;
- identify the works of key practitioners and their significance within the art of Europe between the Baroque and Romanticism
- explain how social, religious and political events impacted on the content and marketing of works of art
- explain how ideas from contemporary philosophy, science and literature influenced artists and architects
Indicative Module Content:
Baroque style; Art and the Counter Reformation; Art and Allegory; Baroque Architecture; Baroque Sculpture; Court Patronage; the Rise of Academies; Mercantile Art in the Dutch Republic; Portraiture; the Landscape Tradition; Female Artists; the Rise of the Painter-Etcher; Palladian Architecture; Neoclassical Sculpture and Architecture; the Grand Tour; Romanticism.