Required: Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art (2008) Mariët Westerman, A Worldy Art: The Dutch Republic, (Yale, 1996)

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1 1 TENTATIVE SUBJECT TO CHANGE Art 315: Northern Baroque Art Instructor: Dr. Ingrid Cartwright Delivered in Amsterdam and Paris, Summer Phone: Overview From the late sixteenth through the seventeenth century, Northern Europe experienced the flowering of an unprecedented golden age of art. The era is marked by big names like Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, but too by an explosion of new varieties of art and new types of patrons. In this course we will focus on the paintings, prints, and drawings created during this era in Flanders (present-day Belgium) and the Dutch Republic (present-day Netherlands), as well as the art and architecture of France. We will examine the dynamic artistic traditions that emerged during this period of great political and religious crisis, and how art reacted and related to the changing world. We will also explore the myriad specialized pictorial genres that flourished including still life, landscape, portraiture, and genre painting. Moreover, we will investigate issues central to art and art-making of this time including: the rise of the open art market, the culture and currency of prints, the impact of globalization and scientific observation, moralizing impulses in art, classicism and the French Academy, and the question of realism. Required: Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art (2008) Mariët Westerman, A Worldy Art: The Dutch Republic, (Yale, 1996) Recommended: Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art & Architecture, (Yale, 2003) Seymour Slive, Dutch Painting, (Yale, 1995) Anthony Blunt, Art & Architecture in France, (Yale, 1999) Grading Because there is no opportunity to administer exams during the trip, your grade will be based on a series of essays and critical responses based upon the content of the trip, including assigned readings and on-site instruction. Therefore, it is advisable to bring a small, portable notebook with a pencil (not a pen..museums don t allow them), and take notes during the trip. The essay topics (you will have a choice of several) will be ed to you approximately 24 hours after we return home, and will consist of three response papers, each 5-7 pages in length. You will, however, have plenty of time to complete them (due date: August 1, 2013). Behavior: Proper behavior and respect for those around you, especially being on time, is essential for the success of any study abroad trip. While I am not awarding you any points for acceptable conduct, I reserve the right to deduct points or fail any student that does not comport themselves in an acceptable way (more information about what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behavior will be outlined during our final meeting before departure)

2 2 Students with Disabilities In compliance with university policy, students with disabilities who require academic and/or auxiliary accommodations for this course must contact the Office for Student Disability Services in Downing University Center, A-200. The phone number is Please DO NOT request accommodations directly from the professor or instructor without a letter of accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services. Plagiarism and Cheating If you plagiarize or cheat in this class, you will receive an F for the course, and will be referred to the university administration for further disciplinary action. According to WKU: To represent ideas or interpretations taken from another source as one s own is plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious offense. The academic work of students must be their own. Students must give the author(s) credit for any source material used. To lift content directly from a source without giving credit is a flagrant act. To present a borrowed passage after having changed a few words, even if the source is cited, is also plagiarism. No student shall receive or give assistance not authorized by the instructor in taking an examination or in the preparation of an essay, laboratory report, problem assignment, or other project that is submitted for purposes of grade determination. Class Schedule Background to complete before trip Sun. June 2: Depart Nashville Work on required readings & preliminary recorded lectures: 1. Background lecture: It s 1585, Do You Know who is Occupying Antwerp? 2. Background lecture: Existing Traditions, Artistic Transition & the Hand of Hendrick Goltzius (Reading: Wouter Th. Kloek, Northern Netherlandish Art, , A Survey, In Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, ) (1993), Background lecture: A Dutch Golden Age 4. Background lecture: The Southern-Northern Baroque: Flemish Art & Rubens 5. Background lecture: The French Situation Mon, June 3: Amsterdam Arrive Amsterdam; Van Gogh Museum (afternoon)

3 3 Tues, June 4: Amsterdam Visit: Amsterdam Historical Society; Nieuwe Kerk; Royal Palace (Amsterdam Town Hall) Theme: The Dutch Republic: The Golden Age, Prosperity & Charity Read: Slive, Dutch Art, 7-17; ; Westermann, A Worldly Art, Visit: Rembrandthuis; Walking tour of canal houses Weds, June 5: Amsterdam Theme: Rembrandt, Fame & Fortune Read: Eric Jan Sluijter, Horrible Nature, Incomparable Art, : Rembrandt & the Depiction of the Female Nude, Rembrandt s Women, (2001): Ernst van der Wetering, The Multiple Functions of Rembrandt s Self-Portraits, in Rembrandt By Himself, (1999), 8-37.; Harris, Visit: Museum Amstelkring Theme: Calvinists & Catholics: Religious Tolerance and Schuilkerken Read: Martin Praak, The Dutch Republic in the 17 th Century, chapter on religious pluralism ( ) Visit: Rijksmuseum; (Stedelijk Museum) Theme: Unstill Lives: The Many Faces, Places, & Spaces of Dutch Art Thurs, June 6: Amsterdam Read: Westermann, ; Julie Hochstrasser, Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age (excerpt); Eddy de Jongh, Realism and Seeming Realism in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting, in Looking at Seventeenth- Century Dutch Art: Realism Reconsidered (Cambridge, 1997), Lecture: On Rembrandt s Nightwatch Lecture: Vermeer and the Art of Painting Fri, June 7: Haarlem Visit: Day Trip to Haarlem; Frans Hals Museum; Walking Tour of Hofjes and visit to Windmill de Adriaan Theme: Frans Hals: Portraiture Transformed Read: Paul Knevel, Armed Citizens: Representations of Civic Militias in the 17 th Century, in Public & Private in Dutch Culture

4 4 in the Golden Age (2000) Theme: Dutch Lives: Windmills & Tulipmania Read: Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, Sat, June 8: Amsterdam Free Day in Amsterdam! Sun, Jun 9: Travel to Paris Train to Paris Visit: The Louvre Mon, Jun 10: Paris Theme: The Flemish in France: Peter Paul Rubens & Marie de Medici Read: Geraldine Johnson, Pictures fit for a Queen: Peter Paul Rubens and the Marie de Medici Cycle, Art History 16 (1993): ; Theme: French Painting: Classics & Carravaggists Read: Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting (Princeton, 1998), ch. 5; Harris, Lecture: Classicism in Painting & the French Academy Visit: Sainte-Chappelle; Pantheon; Luxembourg Gardens; Eiffel Tower Tues, June 11: Paris Theme: Formal Gardens & Mirrors Read: Allen Weiss, Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and 17 th -Century Metaphysics (1996), Visit: Orangerie; Musee D'Orsay; Musee Rodin, Les Invalides Weds, June 12: Paris Theme: The Architecture of Louis XIV & Colbert Today is an intro; please complete before we go to Versailles: Anthony Blunt, Art & Architecture in France, , pp

5 5 Thurs, June 13: Paris Visit: Musée Marmattan, Musée d'art-moderne Visit: Chateau de Versailles (morning guided tour of chateau, afternoon walking tour of gardens) Fri, June 14: Paris Theme: Versailles & Baroque Guy Walton, Louis XIV's Versailles (University of Chicago, 1986), Sat, June 15: Paris Pompidou Center; Musee Carnivalet; Walking tour of Hôtel Particuliers in Le Marais (Hôtel Sully, Hôtel de Beauvais) Sun, June 16: Paris Free Day/Optional Trip to Giverny to see the Terra Foundation and Monet s Studio Mon, Jun 17: Return Home TBD Rest, Reflect, and write! Papers Due