ARTH 321 — Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic

Examination of the functions of visual culture in merchant capitalist society, and the changing status of art, artists and patrons after the Protestant reformation. A wide range of visual imagery (from Rembrandt and Vermeer to popular culture) will be linked with 17th-century economic, historic, religious, colonial, scientific and literary developments.

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• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Department: Art History & Communications