Early Modern Art Seminar

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This seminar takes a thematic approach to the study of European art produced between 1400-1800. Topics, which change annually, include such offerings as "Art and Law;" "Spectacle, Punishment, and Surveillance;" "Prints and Politics" and "The Subject of Nature." In a given year, we will approach a corpus of objects, images, and performances through a study of three kinds of text: primary sources, secondary art-historical scholarship, and critical theory. Discussions will convene around local museum and library collections.