SCHEDULE

REQUIREMENTS

RESOURCES

Tuesday, August 29
What is the Baroque?
READ

• Martin, Introduction (11-17)
  
• Minor (13-31)
  
• Introduction
  
• Seventeenth-Century Theory: Nature, the Ideal, and Rules

Tuesday, September 5
What is Baroque Style?
READ
• Martin (20-26)
  
• Minor (157-207)
  
• Mannerism and Baroque
  
• Defining Some Stylistic Terms

Tuesday, September 12
Baroque Style and its Phases

READ
• Minor (28-29)
  
• Martin (26-35)
  
• The Absence of Stylistic Unity
  
• Heinrich Wölfflin's Renaissance and Baroque Style

Tuesday, September 19
Why Baroque?

READ
• Minor (41-73)
• From Mannerism to Baroque
  
• The Anti-Mannerist Style
  
• The Council of Trent and the Arts: Rome 1585-1621

Tuesday, September 26 FIRST REPORT TOPIC SELECTION
Baroque Naturalism

READ
• Martin, (39-72)
  
• Naturalism
  
• Giovanni Battista Agucchi's Trattato della Pittura

Tuesday, October 3
The Passions of the Soul

READ
• Passions of the Soul
  
• Martin (73-118)
  
• Martin (274-275)
  
• Charles Le Brun Expression

Tuesday, October 10
Allegory

READ
• Allegory
  
• Martin (119-153)
  • Andrea Alciati, Emblematum Liber (1531)
    
  • Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1593)

Tuesday, October 17 FIRST REPORT - 1
Space

READ
• Space
  
• Martin (155-196)

Tuesday, October 24 FIRST REPORT - 2
Time

READ
• Martin (197-222)

Tuesday, October 31 FIRST REPORT - 2
Light

READ
• Martin (223-248)

Tuesday, November 7 SECOND REPORT TOPIC SELECTION
Antiquity

READ
• Martin (249-269)
  
• Attitudes to Antiquity
  
• Classicism
  
• L'Idea del pittore, dello scultore, e dell'architetto
  
• Poussin's letter concerning the "Modes"

Tuesday, November 14
Baroque Art and the Academy

READ
• Minor (357-369)
• Academies of Art in Florence and Rome
• The French Academy in the 17th Century

Tuesday, November 28 SECOND REPORT -1

1. Natasha Nickodem
2. Melissa Rudder
3. Sarah Spitzli

Tuesday, December 5 SECOND REPORT -2

1. Leigh Harpel
2. Sophie Wackenhut
3. Rebecca Waite
4. Tamara Young