Modern and Contemporary Art in Western Europe I

Students get acquainted with the development of European art from the middle of the 16th century up to the time of French Revolution. The lecture course is arranged in the following thematic chapters: Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism.
The student gets to know stylistical, iconographical and functional innovations in European painting, sculpture, design, architecture and urbanism, which are considered as a consequence of the changing economical, social, cultural, religious and intellectual factors.
Special attention is devoted to the part that the visual arts themselves played in the forementioned changes.
The student gets acquainted with the most recent problems in the research regarding the specific thematic chapter.

- John T. Paoletti, Gary M.Radke: Art in Renaissance Italy, Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005 , COBISS.SI-ID - 56656897
Stephen J. Campbell, Michael W. Cole, A New History of Italian Renaissance Art, London: Thames & Hudson 2013, COBISS.SI-ID - 58048866
- Gert von der Osten in Horst Vey: Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500-1600, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1992, COBISS.SI-ID – 35616001
- Rudolf Wittkower: Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. I-III, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1999, COBISS.SI-ID – 20611333
- Anthony Blunt: Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1999, COBISS.SI-ID – 62646114
- Seymour Slive: Dutch Painting 1600-1800, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1995, COBISS.SI-ID – 35605858
- Hans Vlieghe: Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2004, COBISS.SI-ID - 20611589
Literatura, pomembna za razumevanje posameznih problemov, povezanih z likovno tvornostjo obravnavanega obdobja, bo navajana na predavanjih.