HUAS75027 - Monuments of Baroque Rome

Course Description

Through the lens of some of Rome’s best-known monuments, this course will explore the Eternal City as a center of Baroque art, architecture, and spectacle in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The urban development of the city, as well as major works in painting, sculpture, and architecture, will be considered within their political and religious contexts, with special emphasis placed on the ecclesiastical and private patronage that transformed the city into one of the world’s great capitals. Along with the singular history of New St. Peter’s, Rome’s churches, chapels, tombs, altarpieces, palaces, villas, gardens, fountains, and urban interventions will be presented within the context of the Eternal City’s incomparably rich history. The city’s multi-layered nature, in which tangible remains of successive eras shaped and informed visual experience, will be emphasized. Lectures and discussions will underscore Rome’s mythic character and will explore the interdependence of religion, political power, and the visual arts. Artists and architects to be considered include Caravaggio, the Carracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, and Francesco Borromini, and Fra Andrea Pozzo.

Course Outline

Notes

Online registration closes Friday, December 22 at 5 pm CT.

Please note that this course runs through February 29 (there is no class meeting on February 15).