Objectives

At the end of this module students will have acquired:

• Critical capacity to interpret and analyse baroque art and architecture drawing on approaches encountered in the module.
• Alertness to and critical awareness of the operation of Italian baroque artworks
• Knowledge of up-to-date scholarship on materiality
• Knowledge and critical awareness of up to date scholarship on place, spatiality and locality
• Knowledge and critical awareness of scholarship on holiness.
• The capacity to read critically scholarship on artworks and to reflect analytically on assumptions about space, spatiality, locality and place.

Preliminary Reading

• Rose Marie San Juan, 'Contaminating Bodies: Print and the 1656 Plague in Naples', in M Calaresu & H Hills (eds), New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c1800, Ashgate: 2013, cap. 3, pp.63ff.
• Olson, Todd, ‘Caravaggio’s Coroner: Forensic Medicine in Giulio Mancini’s Art Criticism’, Oxford Art Jnl, 28.1, 2005, pp.83-98.
• Wendy Wassyng Roworth, ‘The Evolution of History Painting: Masaniello’s revolt and other disasters in 17thC Naples’, Art Bulletin, June 1993, vol. 75 n.2, 219-234.
• Christopher R Marshall, ‘ “Causa di stravaganze”: Order and anarchy in Domenico Gargiulo’s Revolt of Masaniello’, Art Bulletin, vol 80 n3 Sep 1998, 478-497.
• James Clifton, ‘Art and Plague at Naples’, in Hope and Healing. Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, eds. GA Bailey et al., Clark University, 2005, 97-117.
• Franco Mormando, ‘Introduction: response to the Plague in early Modern Italy: What the primary sources, printed and painted reveal’, in Hope and Healing. Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, eds. GA Bailey et al., Clark University, 2005, 1-44.
• Rose Marie San Juan, Rome. A City Out of Print, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, Cap.7, ‘The Uncertainties of Time. Managing and Marketing the Plague of 1656-57’, 217-254.
• Katie Scott, ‘Figure & Ornament: Notes on the Late Baroque Art Industry’, in Taking Shape. Finding Sculpture in the decorative arts, Getty Museum: 2009, pp.166-176.
• Sandra Cavallo, Artisans of the Body in early modern Italy: Identities, families and masculinities (Manchester University Press: 2007), Cap. 2 'Health, beauty and hygiene: the broad domain of a barber-surgeon's duties', 38-63.
• Deleuze, Gilles, Le Pli, trans T Conley, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
• J. Connors, ‘Borromini's S. Ivo alla Sapienza: the spiral’, Burl Mag, vol.138, Oct 1996, pp.668ff.