ARHS 1330 - The Visual Arts in France, 1500-1914

Credits: 3

Traces the history of the visual arts in France from the splendor of Renaissance court culture to the artistic revolutions of Impressionism and Cubism. Themes include the political uses of art, the invention of the artist as genius-provocateur, the visual articulation of gender, and the definition of France and French art in the ages of global trade and colonial conquest. (*updated* 12/5/2019; effective Spring 2020)