Baroque Art (20052)

Degree/study:Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term:1st
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Maria Gargante

1. Presentation of the subject

 

Study of the main principles of Baroque Art:

1) Main historical periods

2) Main movements

3) Different national schools

4) Outstanding representatives 

 

2. Competences to be attained

General competences

Specific competences

1. Ability for analysis and synthesis. 2. Ability to do an oral presentation. 3. Analysing, synthesizing and managing different information sources. 4. Ability to interrelate particular and theoretical knowledge. 5. Deductive reasoning, which means that a conclusion follows from a set of premises. 6. Generalizing or extracting a general rule from a limited data set or examples. 7. Having oral and written communication skills 8. Understanding how literature, history, art and thought interact 9. Detecting cultural and ideological information in a text. 10. Argumentation, which means supporting and idea both orally and in written. 11. Teamwork skills 12. Being able to incorporate teamwork in individual work 13. Interpersonal communication in small and large groups 14. Having an analytical mind 15. Independent learning 16. Further education disposition

1.  Understanding the concept of Baroque, which means knowing the characteristics a Baroque work of art has. 2. Understanding how Baroque art adapts to specific circumstances depending on its location in Europe. 3. Analyzing how a dialogue among different artistic centres is established. 4. Establishing concomitants and differences among artistic centres and receivers. 5.  Understanding that art might be analysed taking different aspects into account and that the wide variety of interpretations may differ. 6.  Knowing how to incorporate traditional historiographic approaches and new interpretations when analyzing works of art. 7.  Ability to analyze images from different perspectives. Knowing how to defend a position since sometimes there is not a true single reading. 8.  Knowing how to get useful information from artistic and literary texts from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

3. Contents

 

1. Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century. Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

- The Baroque: art of the Counter? The artistic policy of the Popes and new religious orders.
The ideology of Roma Triumphans and the paradigm of the capital city. Il Gesú.

2. The complexity of the baroque universe: fundamental principles and identification signs. The discovery of the infinite.

3. Italian baroque architecture. Rome: Maderno, Rainaldi, Pietro da Cartona, Bernini and Borromini.

4. Bernini, the sculptor.

5. Italian baroque painting: Classicism (Carraci and the Bolognese school) vs. Naturalism (Caravaggio and "caravaggisti").

6. Dutch Golden Age painting: portraits and bourgeois scenes.

- The Delft school: Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch.

- Rembrandt painter of stories.

7. The Flemish school: Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens.

8. Spanish Art in the seventeenth century.

- Genre painting and religious painting in Seville.

- Court painting around Philip IV. Velázquez.

- Architecture and urbanism in Spain and Latin American.

- The Spanish religious sculpture.  

9. Versalles: the swan song of the Baroque universe.

- France: the art of absolute monarchy. The Querelle painting.

- The "French" gardens.

 

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

 

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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