Baroque Art and Architecture in Rome

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Baroque art began in Rome, and may of its iconic moments remain today. This class will spend two weeks in Rome to experience these works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts in their original – and spectacular! – contexts, rather than isolated in museums or on screens. A key goal of Baroque art (created between the end of the 16th and beginning of the 18th centuries) was to elicit a range of physical and emotional responses in its viewers, from piety and awe to disorientation and desire. Through our site visits, we will attempt to recapture some of the embodied experience intended by these creators.