ARH 225 - The Baroque Imaginary

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

The Baroque has fascinated - and incensed - artists, historians, cultural critics, and philosophers from Heinrich Wölfflin, Walter Benjamin, and Erwin Panofsky to Gilles Deleuze, Hubert Damisch, and Peter Greenaway. Often aligned with an artistic “Golden Age” exemplified by the works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque is also associated with decadence, irrationality, and effeminacy. We will explore the stakes of these connotations for seventeenth-century Baroque icons as well as for later, (Neo)Baroque artists.

Prerequisite: ARH 103.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff