Italian Baroque
Description Art historians note that Baroque artists built on the naturalism of the High Renaissance but also strove to create more engaging art with an effort to evoke nothing short of a revelation in the viewer – a sense of the marvelous – so that the viewer thinks about the subject in a new way. […]
Art & architecture: Caravaggio and Italian Baroque
Caravaggio brought a new dimension to Italian Baroque art and revolutionized Western painting. Think about Caravaggio’s style, and why his style might have been considered revolutionary. Write an essay directed to a student with no background in Italian Baroque art, in which you identify the key techniques used by the artist that we now identify […]
Nethersole, Scott. Devotion by Design. Italian Altarpieces before
Texts Nethersole, Scott. Devotion by Design. Italian Altarpieces before 1500. London and New Haven: National Gallery/Yale University Press, 2011. Pearce, Celia. “Narrative Environments. From Disneyland to World of Warcraft,” in Space Time Play. Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: the Next Level, edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, and Matthias Bottger, Basel, Boston, and […]
How Italian immigrants and native-born Americans viewed immigration
Requires consideration of how Italian immigrants and native-born Americans viewed immigration restriction debates in the 1920s. You must consider how immigrant experiences of global migration and acculturation shaped their views. This paper also asks to evaluate how international events shaped the debate over immigration restriction in the 1920s. This paper will be evaluated based on […]
Singer-composers of the Italian Courts: Francesca Caccini and Barbara
Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi were two of the most important musicians of their day, male or female. They wrote pieces (which they also performed) that are still widely recorded and performed in concert today. Their compositions and stylistic innovations influenced composers of their own and succeeding generations. Compare and contrast these two composers in […]
Italian cinema
These films, as well as all the films on this syllabus, are on reserve at the library. You are required to see at least two films of the Cineteca—if you can’t make the screenings, you can view them in the library. You should write a short paper (1–2 typed pages) analyzing the film and/or explaining […]