Baroque Art in Italy

Catalog description

Italian architecture, sculpture, and painting of the late sixteenth century and seventeenth century assessed in relation to the counter-Reformation, a resurgent Catholic Church, and the taste of the courts of France and Spain. Major artists: Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Borromini, Poussin, and Velasquez. (Not open to students who have completed Art 13.1.)