Continuing Education Course Finder: HARCS04-1a

Masterpieces of 17th Century Art (HARCS04-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $375.00

Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00pm no class 11/25

Course Description: This course explores the artistic masterpieces produced across seventeenth-century Europe. We will consider the themes, issues, iconography, and style of the most celebrated artists of this exciting century such as Caravaggio and Bernini in Italy, Rubens and van Dyck in Flanders, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer in Holland, Christopher Wren in England, and Velazquez in Spain. Attention will also be given to developments in landscape, still-life, genre, and comedy painting, which became renowned specialties during this period, as well as the burgeoning, sophisticated interests of artists in optics and pictorial illusionism.

Instructor(s): Mario Pereira

Instructor(s) Bio: Mario Pereira is finishing his Ph.D. on collecting practices in the Renaissance in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. He currently holds an American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He recently contributed to the exhibition “Portugal and Renaissance Europe” at the John Carter Brown Library where he was the J.M. Stuart Fellow, and has curated exhibitions on Italian Renaissance painting at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He has published on topics ranging from Centaurs to Caravaggio as well as translations from Italian and Portuguese. He holds degrees in art history from the University of Chicago and Oberlin College.