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This course is organized by lectures on specific topics which are listed below. Use this word cloud visualization to browse artworks connected to a specific lecture topic or by artist. Word size is determined by frequency and all words link to a corresponding collection search.
Lectures:
- The Fall of the Idols: Counter-Reformation, the Rejection of Mannerism, and the Emergence of the Carracci
- Fruit and Flesh: the Early Roman Works of Caravaggio
- Annibale Carracci and The Decorations of the Palazzo Farnese
- Genre Painting in the Chapel? The Early Religious Works of Caravaggio
- The Eroticization of Religious Violence in Naples and Rome: the Followers of Caravaggio
- Rivalry, Theft, and Sexual Tension: The Heirs of the Carracci
- Fantasies of Hot and Cold Flesh: Sculpture, the Restoration of Antique Fragments, and the Emergence of Bernini in Early Modern Rome
- Sculpture as Architecture, Urban Space as Theatre: Papal Projects and the Transformation of Rome
- Architecture, Movement, Wisdom: Borromini
- The Female Mystic, the Fountain, and the Floating Dome: Bernini’s Projects for Private Patrons and Religious Orders
- Bandits and Bamboccianti: Salvator Rosa, Genre Painting, and the Open Market at Mid-Century
- From Rome to the World: Late Roman Classicism, the Jesuits, and Visualizing Global Conversion