Art History 240 - COLQ: ART HISTORICAL STUDIES

Topics course. An examination of the fundamental role of the visual arts in fashioning an extraordinary and indelible image of rulership. Ensembles and individual objects in many media (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape design, printmaking, furniture and tapestries, numismatics, works commissioned in Rome, and literary production) will be related to the centralized bureaucracy that came to define the French state. Time permitting, we shall briefly consider the impact of Versailles on other European courts.

Topic: The Age of Louis XIV.