Movements
Students will be able to articulate the characteristics of the styles, processes, and ideologies and philosophies of key artists and movements, including Late Baroque, Neo-Palladianism, Rococo, Enlightenment and moralizing themes, and the naturalism that predicts the beginnings of Romanticism and Neoclassicism.
Contribution
Students will situate their informed, original ideas within the best art historical publications on their subject.
Precedent and Influence
Students will become conversant with selected works of art in terms of style, patronage, reception, and meaning of individual works of art and the artists or movements that spawned them. They will be able to trace the trajectory of future influence of key works of art from this period.
Research
Students will develop art historical research skills by conducting advanced research focused on a single work of art within eighteenth-century Europe including Britain, France, the Empire, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia and Russia.
Scope: 1700-1789
1. Students will acquire a solid foundation in the historical context of the art and architecture of Europe from ca. 1700-1789.
Theory
Students will apply methodological approaches acquired in ArtHC 300 to their topic.
Research
Students will demonstrate familiarity with advanced research skills and best research practices as taught by the course professor and supported the HBLL Art History research guides. Students will apply the formatting of an acceptable style guide with exactness to the completed research paper.
