AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

20

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SCQF level

SCQF level 7

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Planned timetable

2.00 pm Mon, Tue, Thu (lectures)

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This 20-credit module provides a survey of Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment art in Europe and beyond. We begin with a study of seventeenth-century Italian art and architecture, discussing artists such as Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. From Italy the focus shifts to Spain, Flanders, and Holland in order to explore portraiture, allegory and historical painting looking at artists such as Velazquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt. We will also touch upon issues of artistic identity and the status of women artists during the period. A number of lectures are then dedicated to the parallel tradition of Islamic art, and the baroque beyond Europe’s borders, extending our understanding of the Baroque diaspora to a global context. Following thematic lectures on collecting and printmaking, the focus shifts to art in France. The module ends with lectures on the classical tradition in British art and architecture and the Enlightenment. Although the primary focus of the module is on Western Europe, lectures also address how European art formed alongside non-Western traditions, including the important role played by religious missionaries, global trade and imperial conquest.

Assessment pattern

100% continuous: 40% mid-term visual analysis paper 1500 words - 50% take-home paper, 2500 words - 10% participation mark

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 x 1-hour lectures and related contact time (x 11 weeks), 1 x 1-hour tutorial (x 10 weeks), 2 x office hour (x 10 weeks).

Scheduled learning hours

40

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

160

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • to think critically about the making and meaning of works of art and architecture produced during the 17th and 18th centuries
  • develop an awareness of critical, theoretical and historical issues relating to this period in the history of art
  • acquire skills of visual observation, description and analysis
  • present information and ideas in presentations and in writing
  • research a topic making intelligent use of library and electronic resources
  • speak in public and argue engagingly in an intrinsically, professionally and socially useful way