ARTH 21.02 Northern Baroque Art
Painting in Flanders and Holland from 1600 to 1700. This course considers the naturalistic tradition from Caravaggio's northern followers to the Haarlem School of Hals; the art of Rembrandt; the classical genre of Vermeer and the Delft School; Rubens and the Flemish High Baroque. The growth of specialized genres of painting and the differing aesthetic aims of Dutch and Flemish painters are viewed against the background of the Protestant reformation and the rise of a mercantile society.