Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this module, students should demonstrate the ability to do the following:
- regularly and punctually attend classes, engage with their lecturers and tutors, work to set deadlines, and submit original, non-plagiarised work in accordance with the standards expected at university and without recourse to AI tools or non-scholarly web resources.
- be familiar with, and understand, a range of recommended set texts and critical/ theoretical sources relevant to the course, and be able to work under test/ exam conditions without reliance on lecture notes or other learning aids.
- recognise, discuss and explain the main stylistic developments in European art and architecture during the period 1500-1850.
- identify the works of key artists of relevance to the course and their significance within the history of art.
- explain how social, religious and political events impacted on the content and marketing of works of art.
Indicative Module Content:
The course covers the transition from Renaissance to Baroque styles; 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.
This module would work particularly well in combination with its sister modules AH10260 European Art 1and AH10160 Art History in the Making (autumn 2024). Together with AH10150 The Modern World (spring 2025), these four courses combine to offer first-year students an overall foundation in the history of Western Art from antiquity to the modern era. See: https://www.ucd.ie/arthistory/study/undergraduateprogrammes/