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Academic Catalog 2014-2015 
    
Academic Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HART230 Italian Baroque Art 3 cr.


This course comprehensively investigates the Baroque style in painting, sculpture and architecture from its origins in Counter-Reformation Rome at the end of the Renaissance to its dissemination throughout Italy during the seventeenth century. The course identifies and places in context masterpieces of the Baroque and considers the transformation of the Baroque into what is known as the Rococo at the beginning of the nineteenth century, briefly considering nineteenth and twentieth centuries - American variations on Italian baroque themes.

Prerequisites: HART100

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