Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the visual cultures of the European Enlightenment (1650-1800), focusing on developments in architecture, painting, prints, urbanism, and landscape design and their intellectual and historical contexts. Topics include: intimacy and self; prisons, hospitals, and academies; luxury and sensual pleasures; the Grand Tour and the search for origins; urban spectacles and the public sphere.