The course is a continuation of History of Art I. As such, it is organized as a chronological study of the main artistic manifestations of the Western World from roughly 1400 AD to our days. Special attention will be paid to the great styles of the Modern Era, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism- and the break with tradition represented by Modernism and Avant-Garde.
1. Renaissance
1.1. Concept and Chronology
1.2. Italy. Trecento, Quattrocento and Cinquecento. Architecture, sculpture and painting. Characteristics, schools and artists.
1.3. Spain. General characteristics. Architecture, sculpture and painting. El Greco.
2. Baroque
2.1. Possibilities and chronology.
2.2. Baroque at the service of Royal Absolutism. Courtly Baroque. Characteristics. France: Architecture, sculpture and painting. Palaces.
Other European countries.
2.3. Baroque in the service of the Counter-Reformation. Characteristics. Italy: architecture, sculpture and painting. The great names. Spain:
architecture, sculpture and painting. Schools and artists.
2.4. Other pictorial schools. Flanders and Holland. Rubens, Rembrandt and the Dutch interior.
3. Neoclassicism
3.1. Concept, chronology and characteristics.
3.2. France, Italy and Spain. Architecture, sculpture and painting. Main artists
4. The transition from the XVIIIth to the XIXth century.
4.1. The figure of Goya and the painting of the nineteenth century: Romanticism, realism, impressionism and post-impressionism.
4.2. Sculpture and architecture
5. The 20th century and the first years of the 21st century
5.1. Architecture. From the modern movement to postmodernism. The different architectural styles.
5.2. The great changes in painting and sculpture. From the historical avant-garde to conceptual art. Movements and artists.
