Topic: Baroque Bravura (1600 - 1700): Painting Lessons From Masters

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This course combines the study of the history of seventeenth-century (1600 – 1700) European painting with work in the studio in which students paint in the manner of the Baroque painters they have studied. Students will have an opportunity to explore in their own art the possibilities for dramatic lighting, expressive gesture, and dynamic composition discovered by great masters of the period such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Poussin. A term paper, based on an object (or two objects) in a New York museum is required for successful completion of the course.