Baroque & Rococo Art & Architecture

This course focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and architecture produced in Western Europe. Among the major artists studied are Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, and Gainsborough, whose works are considered in the context of the political, religious, and social issues of the era.