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Wednesday, September 3
Introduction
READING
Introduction
Requirements
Anti-Mannerism and the Council of Trent
Walter Friedlaender on "The Anti-Mannerist Style"
Rudolf Wittkower on "The Council of Trent and the Arts"
Wednesday, September 10
Seminar Reports: Topic Selection
The Baroque
READING
Martin, Introduction, and Chapter 1
Baroque
Mannerism and Baroque
Defining Some Stylistic Terms
Heinrich Wölfflin's Renaissance and Baroque
A 'Baroque' pearl
Wednesday, September 17
Naturalism
READING
Martin, Chapter 2
Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Trattato della Pittura (1607-1615)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Life of Caravaggio (1672)
Naturalism
Wednesday, September 24
The Passions of the Soul
Seminar Report: Ryan Roach
READING
Martin, Chapter 3
Passions of the Soul
Charles Le Brun Expression
Wednesday, October 1
The Transcendental View of Reality and the Allegorical Tradition
Seminar Report: Brione Smith
Seminar Report: Lauren Ogilvie
Seminar Report: Carrie Lewis
READING
Martin, Chapter 4
Allegory
Andrea Alciati, Emblematum Liber (1531)
Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1593)
Wednesday, October 8
Space
Seminar Report: Rebecca Olander
READING
Martin, Chapter 5
Wednesday, October 15
Time
Seminar Report: Alexis Parker
Seminar Report: Elle Chasen
READING
Martin, Chapter 6
Wednesday, October 22
Light
Seminar Report: Ashley-Lauren Whitacre
Seminar Report: Carrie Lewis
READING
Martin, Chapter 7
Wednesday, October 29
Attitudes to Antiquity
Seminar Report: Stephanie Perks
READING
Martin, Chapter 8
Wednesday, November 5
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect (1664)
Seminar Report: Ryan Roach
Seminar Report: Elle Chasen
READING
L'Idea del pittore, dello scultore, e dell'architetto
Wednesday, November 12
Paul Fréart de Chantelou: Bernini in France
Seminar Report: Lauren Ogilvie
READING
Martin, Appendix B
Filippo Baldinucci, Life of Bernini
Wednesday, November 19
Arnold Houbraken: Life of Rembrandt
Seminar Report: Rebecca Olander
Seminar Report: Alexis Parker
READING
Martin, Appendix C
Wednesday, December 3
Academies of Art I
Seminar Report: Stephanie Perks
READING
Martin, pages 249-269
Classicism
Academies of Art in Florence and Rome
The French Academy in the 17th Century
Wednesday, December 10
Academies of Art II
Seminar Report: Ashley-Lauren Whitacre
Seminar Report: Brione Smith
READING
Martin, pages 249-269
Classicism
Academies of Art in Florence and Rome
The French Academy in the 17th Century