spring 2007
ARC 368R/388R:
Architecture in the Age of the Baroque
Instructor:
Richard Cleary
Prerequisites
SOA students must have completed the architectural history survey seaquence. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students from other units of the university may enroll with the consent of the instructor.
Description and Format
In the seventeenth century, patrons and designers applied the lessons of the Italian Renaissance to their own cultural environments creating work remarkable for its vitality and variety. Absolutist monarchs such as the French king Louis XIV sought images for their conceptions of the state; Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox factions of Christianity demanded distinct architectural expressions; and new approaches to knowledge inspired a reevaluation of the authority of the Ancients. Among the architects whose buildings have come to define this age were Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini in Italy, Francois Mansart and Louis Le Vau in France, Christopher Wren in England, and Johann Fischer von Erlach in Austria. Organized geographically, this lecture/discussion course addresses topics in Europe including the architecture and landscape of country estates, the design of cities and their major institutional building types, urban residences, and religious institutions.
Evaluation
Examinations, short papers on directed topics, longer research paper