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Course Info for AHIS - 341 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2903 Title: The Baroque Festival: Art&Auth Department: Fine Arts
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 8 Available seats: 7
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, HHN - 105 Instructor(s): Scanlan, Suzanne
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Art History 102.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Arts Requirement
Course Description:
This course will explore the complex relationships between art, architecture, politics, and theater in seventeenth-century Europe. During this period, Europe's civil, religious, and economic upheavals provoked increasingly elaborate and inflexible ideologies among its secular and religious rulers, yet the art and architecture of this period is among the most innovative and varied in Western culture. By combining politics and art, baroque festivals explored--and frequently altered--the seemingly opposed conventions of each. Students are encouraged to pursue class presentations and final projects that address a similarly broad range of related themes.