Introduction to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Visual Culture (Baroque and Rococo Art) 600:144 Spring 2010 T/TH, 5:00-6:15 PM, 270 KAB

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1 Introduction to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Visual Culture (Baroque and Rococo Art) 600:144 Spring 2010 T/TH, 5:00-6:15 PM, 270 KAB Dr. Elizabeth A. Sutton Telephone: Office: 214 KAB; Office Hours: T/TH 10:00-11:00 AM Course Website: Course Description and Objectives: This course will introduce paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture of Europe produced in the seventeenth century and beginning of the eighteenth century. We will explore the historical context and introduce various interpretations of visual culture from the Dutch Republic, Italy, Spain, France, Flanders, and England. You will develop your critical, analytical, rhetorical, and writing skills using artworks and readings as a springboard. This course will be a combination of lecture and discussion. Discussion will be encouraged by a variety of activities to prompt you to critically reflect on the art and the readings, and to help you process and retain the material presented. By the end of this course you should be able to articulate formal characteristics of artworks using art historical vocabulary, to identify major works of the period by at least their creator and country, and to suggest reasons why these works are considered significant both in their historical context and in a contemporary context. My objectives for you are to build your visual acuity and connoisseurship of seventeenth and eighteenth-century visual culture. By the end of the course, students will be able to: Identify major artists, works, and cultural developments in 17 th -18 th century visual culture Explain the significance of these artists and works Analyze the visual material using relevant terminology Explain key themes of artistic and intellectual engagement in Europe ca Integrate the significance of the art and artists into the larger cultural context Evaluate selections of written primary and secondary historical sources Required text: Harris, Ann Sutherland. Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture, 2 nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, Levey, Michael. Rococo to Revolution. London: Thames and Hudson, Texts are available and University Book and Supply. Check addall.com too, for cheap used copies. Supplemental primary and secondary source readings on elearning and e-reserve. Suggested text: Martin, John Rupert. Baroque. New York: Harper & Row, (appendices are in this text, and available to download on elearning)

2 Etiquette and Expectations: I expect each student to respect the class learning environment. That means: No electronic devices that interfere with class. Cell phones, ipods, MP3 players, PDAs, etc. MUST be off and stored before class begins. No texting. If you take notes on a laptop, be responsible. If anyone misuses their laptop privileges (ie: websurfing, IMing, etc) laptops will forthwith be prohibited. If you use your cell phone improperly, you will be asked to leave. Show up to class prepared and on time Turn in assignments on time Participate consistently and actively in class Do your best on creating thoughtful and meaningful work SDS: If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me soon. Please request that a Student Disability Services (SDS) staff send a SAAR form verifying your disability and specifying the accommodation you will need. SDS is located at 103 Student Health Center, (319) Plagiarism and Cheating: Cheating or plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated. It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes plagiarism and cheating. See Academic Ethics and Discipline in the student handbook available at Ask me if you have questions. Academic Learning Center Resources: I encourage you to use the Academic Learning Center s free assistance with writing, reading, and learning stratigies. UNI s Academic Learning Center is located in 008 ITTC. The Writing Center offers one-on-one writing assistance and the Reading and Learning Center provides consultations on reading, note-taking, and other academic success strategies. Phone for more information. E-learning: Images, Readings, and Announcements I use the Blackboard course management system and will expect everyone in the class to stay up-to-date by accessing the course website. Images for study will be available on the course website, as will assignment sheets and additional readings. Check the website periodically for timely announcements. You should print out the assigned readings and bring them to class on the appropriate day. Course Requirements: ATTENDANCE is MANDATORY.

3 You are responsible for content from class. If you miss an assignment, quiz, or paper deadline because of a serious family emergency or for medical reasons and you would like a make-up or extension, you will need to provide appropriate documentation verifying your excuse. If you cannot attend a class meeting, you are responsible for obtaining the information presented from a peer or by making an appointment with me. I will not re-teach a missed class for you via . You will be allowed one missed quiz. DISCUSSIONS and CLASS ACTIVITIES (variable points) Come to class having thoroughly read the assigned text(s) Participate actively in discussion and class activities with critical insights, questions, and responses to peers. READINGS RESPONSES 10 pts each) You will write five one-page typed responses to the assigned articles to prepare for discussion (the Appendices are not articles) Use the guided questions on elearning to assist your analysis of the article. Responses must be typed and turned in on the day of reading s discussion WEEKLY QUIZZES (10 pts each) Weekly quizzes will help you gradually process and retain content. Quizzes may take many forms; they may ask for your questions, they may be written analysis of readings, they may ask for term definitions, and/or they may be ID-based. ID quizzes will contain images for which you will identify Artist, Title of work, Date, and Country (ie: Italy, Flanders, Dutch Republic, Spain, France, England). As we progress, quizzes will require a comparison essay. Some IDs may be from prior weeks quizzes to help you review. All IDs will be from images provided in class. Comparisons will ask you to identify the two works shown, and discuss in shortessay form how the images together elucidate certain ideas. Questions may be based on content from lecture, the textbook, and readings. Quiz review images will be updated weekly and available on elearning. Quizzes must be taken in class; a missed quiz is a 0 for that quiz. Each student will be able to drop one quiz score. INSPIRATION RESEARCH PROJECT/RESEARCH PAPER (50 points) The assignment guidelines are available on elearning. You will choose either: A) Research paper of 7-10 pages or B) Inspiration Research Project. A) Research Paper. You will research a focused topic relating to the art produced in 17 th - 18 th century Europe. o Prospectus and bibliography, due in class February 11 o Final draft paper and presentation, due in class weeks of April B) Inspiration Research Project. You will choose an artist whose oeuvre inspires you and/or whose working techniques you wish to research. You will create a visual piece according to that artist s style, technique, and concerns. In order to do this successfully, you will have to research the artist, his/her oeuvre, and his/her production context. Finally, you will write a 5 page analysis of the artist s work, why it inspired you, how s/he

4 worked, what his/her concerns were, and how you translated his/her stylistic traits, technical innovations, and/or philosophical concerns into your own visual piece. o Inspiration: Prospectus and bibliography due in class February 11 o Inspiration: Visual Piece, paper, and presentation due in class April Grading Scale: % A 90-93% A % B % B 80-83% B % C % C 70-73% C % D % D Schedule of Readings and Due Dates: Week 1. Tuesday 1/12 Thursday 1/14 Introductions, assessment. Overview. Discuss Baroque nomenclature. Mannerism predecessors to Baroque. Read Introduction: xii-xxii. Italy I. Mannerism, the Carracci and their influence Read pp. 3-33, Week 2. 1/19 Thursday 1/21 Italy II Caravaggio Read pp Italy III Caravaggio cont d; Begin architecture Read Beverly Louise Brown, The Black Wings of Envy: Competition, Rivalry, and Paragone, in The Genius of Rome, , (exh. cat: 2001) Week 3. Tuesday 1/26 Thursday 1/28 Italy IV. Bernini, Borromini Read: Read pp Read Appendix B Paul Fréart de Chantelou, Bernini in France in John Rupert Martin, Baroque, Simon Schama Power of Art on Bernini Week 4. Tuesday 2/2 Thursday 2/4 Italy V Painting in Rome and Naples Read pp AND Elizabeth Cohen, The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A Rape as History Sixteenth Century Journal, (2000). Flanders I Rubens Read pp Read Appendix A Peter Paul Rubens on the Imitation of Statues in John Rupert Martin, Baroque,

5 Week 5. Tuesday 2/9 Thursday 2/11 Flanders II Van Dyck, Genres Read pp Dutch Republic I. Mannerism, Hals, and Caravaggisti Read pp PROSPECTUS and BIBLIOGRAPHY for Inspiration/Research Papers due in class Week 6. Tuesday 2/16 Thursday 2/18 View etchings in dean s office Dutch Republic II. Rembrandt and portraiture Read pp , esp. on Rembrandt Read Appendix C Arnold Houbraken, Life of Rembrandt in John Rupert Martin, Baroque, Dutch Republic III Rembrandt II Read Eddy de Jongh The Model Woman and Women of Flesh and Blood, in Rembrandt s Women, ed. Julia Lloyd, (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2001) AND Eric Jan Sluijter Horrible Nature, Incomparable Art : Rembrandt and the Depiction of the Female Nude, in Rembrandt s Women, Week 7. Tuesday 2/23 Thursday 2/25 Dutch Republic IV. Genre, landscape, still life paintings Read pp Dutch Republic V-continue genres Read Eddy de Jongh. To Instruct and Delight, in Questions of Meaning: Theme and Motif in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting, ed. Michael Hoyle, (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2000) Week 8. Tuesday 3/2 Thursday 3/4 Dutch Republic VI- Dutch Empire Read Julie Berger Hochstrasser, "The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary," in Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World, edited by Londa Schiebinger, and Claudia Swan, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). Simon Schama on Rembrandt

6 Week 9. Tuesday 3/9 Thursday 3/11 SPRING BREAK Spain I. Read pp Read Appendix D Francisco Pacheco, On the Aim of Painting in John Rupert Martin, Baroque, Spain II. Read pp esp. on Velazquez, Murillo Read Jonathan Brown. Enemies of Flattery: Velazquez' Portraits of Philip IV, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17 (Summer, 1986): SPRING BREAK Week 11. Tuesday 3/23 Thursday 3/25 Primary Sources and Methodology France I. Architecture and Italian precedents Read pp Week 12. Tuesday 3/30 Thursday 4/1 Friday 4/2 Optional Field Trip to Minneapolis Week 13. Tuesday 4/6 Thursday 4/8 France II Versailles, Louis XIV, and Bernini Read Irving Lavin, Bernini s Image of the Sun King, in Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso, (University of California Press, 1993). France III. Development of Academic painting Champaigne, Poussin, Claude Gellée, Le Brun Read pp Read Appendix E Philippe de Champaigne, On Poussin s Rebecca and Eliezer in John Rupert Martin, Baroque, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center England Text: Read pp and Epilogue Finish England, Review 17 th c. Discuss problems in 17 th c. art Week 14. Tuesday 4/13 Intro to 18th c. Read in Levey Introduction

7 Thursday 4/15 Rococo Watteau and Boucher Read in Levey Chapters 1-3; skim Ch. 1; skim to end Week 15. Tuesday 4/20 Thursday 4/22 Begin Presentations Presentations Week 16. 4/27 Tuesday Thursday 4/29 Presentations Presentations

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