ARTH 322: Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1550-1700)
The Spectacle of the Counter Reformation
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About ARTH 322 Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1550-1700): The Spectacle of the Counter Reformation
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Point Grey Campus, traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People
Instructor: Joseph Monteyne
Teaching Assistant: TBC
This course provides a study of the visual culture of Counter Reformation Italy, with particular emphasis on Rome as the center of artistic, cultural, economic, and religious life in seventeenth century Italy. Lecture topics and readings engage with such topics as the Carracci Academy’s rejection of mannerism and the reform of painting, the rise of naturalism and the emergence of Caravaggio and his followers such as Artemisia Gentileschi, the eroticization of religious violence in pictures for private collections, the development of an open market for works of genre painting, the rise to prominence of Bernini, large architectural and sculptural projects for the Papacy and private patrons, the peculiar case of Protestant artists and other outsiders working in Roman Catholic Rome during the 1600s, and the visualization of difference in representations of global conversion. The broad range of a general survey will be balanced with close critical readings of selected objects and artists.
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