Art History 253 - ARTS IN BRITAIN, 1714-1820

Artistic production under the first three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Topics include royal patronage; urban developments (London, Bath, Edinburgh); the English landscape garden; the English country house and its fittings; collecting and display; the Grand Tour; aesthetic movements (Gothic Revival, the Sublime, the Picturesque, Neoclassicism); artists' training and careers (among others, the brothers Adam, Gainsborough, Hawskmoor, Hogarth, Reynolds, Roubiliac, and Wright of Derby); maps, prints and books; center vs. periphery; city vs. country. Reading assignments culled from primary- and secondary sources; including travel and epistolary literature. Group II

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