BritPainting:Holbein - Hogarth

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This course will explore the development of painting in Britain from the 1520s to the 1730s, focusing on an array of painting genres, including portraiture (both full-scale and miniature), historical and allegorical painting, landscape, still-life, and marine painting. Topics to be examined will include the development of painting styles, the relationship between painting and literature, the political and social function of artistic representation, visual symbols and their meaning and use, the contexts and nature of collecting and conoisseurship, and the complementary literary responses to images and image-making during this period. Fulfills pre-1800 requirement for Art History major. Prerequisites: Second year students and above; the course is targeted at art history and art majors but may well be of interest to other students in the humanities and social sciences.