Bella Figura: Display behaviours in Baroque Europe

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course, which requires some background in Early Modern Europe is a broad overview of behaviour surrounding appearance and display from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The course considers display to be a human universal, with roots in animal behaviour. After dealing briefly with display as a human universal, the readings examine the phenomenon in the context of the state, of religion, in architecture and interior decoration, and as stable behaviour in civil society art, dress and protocol. . PREREQUISITES: an Early Modern European Course FORMATS: Seminar