AH1016E Reformation & Counter-reformation: from the High Renaissance to the Baroque

Academic Year 2021/2022

Reformation & Counter-reformation: from the High Renaissance to the Baroque.
The timeframe of the 16th and the early decades of the 17th centuries serves as the basis for a study of painting across Europe, including Republican Venice, papal Rome, Florence of the Grand-Dukes of Tuscany, as well as France under François I, Spain under Philip II & Britain under the Tudors. The work of major practitioners will be addressed against the backdrop of such cultural & socio-political phenomena as the late Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-reformation. The course will conclude in the early 17th century with an introduction to the Age of the Baroque.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

- Identify, analyse, compare and contrast the range and stylistic variety of artistic production in 16th and early 17th-century Europe.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the general timeline, and place works of art of this period in their artistic and cultural context.
- Identify & contextualise the works of key practitioners and their significance within the artist's career, school or the art historical period.

Indicative Module Content:

Indicative Lecture Schedule
- Introduction: Late Renaissance Florence & Rome
- Venice: Veronese & Tintoretto
- Correggio & painting in Northern Italy
- Mannerism in Italy
- 16th-century France & Fontainebleau
- 16th century Northern Europe & Dürer
- Holbein & Tudor England
- 16th-century Spain & the Escorial
- Towards the 17th century & the Baroque
- 17th-century Italy I: Caravaggio & the Carracci
- 17th-century Italy II
- 17th-century Flemish art & Peter Paul Rubens

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

18
Field Trip/External Visits

1
Specified Learning Activities

41
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module is taught via lectures and an additional class in the form of a field trip to the National Gallery of Ireland which will give students the opportunity to look at artworks in the original and to discuss ideas that have been raised in the lectures.
Support material will be available on Brightspace but students are encouraged to visit the library in person, make use of recommended texts, read books, visit galleries and museums and contribute in class. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Essay preparatory plan & bibliography. Unspecified n/a Graded No

20
Essay: 1,500-1,600-word written essay. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

80

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Preparatory essay plan: students will receive feedback on the content of their plan & bibliography. They apply this feedback to the final essay. Final essay: students will receive written feedback post-assessment.