This website is for the course ARTH 322 Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1550-1700): The Spectacle fo the Counter Reformation taught by Joseph Monteyne in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia. 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. This website was created on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People on whose lands we live, learn and play on.