Courses
Art History: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, & Bernini
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description:
The course will focus on major artistic movements from Michelangelo to
Caravaggio and Bernini. We will begin by analyzing Michelangelo Buonarroti
as an architect, painter and sculptor who served as a foundation and model
for following generations and as a figure in art history who is most closely
associated with the “High Renaissance.” The course will examine
his exemplary artistic creations that paved the way to a period that is
vaguely circumscribed by the term “Baroque”.
We will then focus on Michelangelo da Merisi, known as Caravaggio, and
on issues of severe criticism and problems in his troubled life, and the
tremendous influence this artist exerted on the art of Europe. Our studies
will then take us to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is synonymous with Baroque.
The course will examine his artistic life as a sculptor and architect
who found compelling and outstanding visual embodiment for the aspirations
of Roman Counter-Reformation and the idea of triumphant Catholicism as
well as secular absolutism.
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