ARTH 20.03 Southern Baroque Art
A survey of painting and sculpture from 1600 to 1700. This course focuses upon the art of Caravaggio and his followers in Italy and Spain; the Carracci and the development of seventeenth century classicism; Bernini and the High Baroque; and the art of French visitors to Italy. Special emphasis is given to the relation that the painting and sculpture of this time has to seventeenth century poetry, theatre, science and the aims of the reformed Catholic Church.