Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

PROGRAM

1. Spanish Golden Age: socio-political and cultural circumstances

2. 16th Century: introduction to Renaissance architecture in Andalucia
Palaces of Calahorra y Velez Blanco
Proto-Renaissance: Diego de Riaño in Sevilla
Palace architecture: La Casa de Pilatos and the Real Alcázar
Renaissance works in Hispanic cathedrals
Purism in Granada: Diego de Siloé and cathedral architecture

3. Sculpture of the Renaissance: iconography; thematics; techniques; imported works
First third of XVI Century: Fancelli Torrigiano
Castillian sculpture in the second third of XVI Century: Ordoñez and Siloé
Granada: Pablo de Rojas and the García brothers

4. Painting of the Renaissance in Andalucia: introduction of Italian styles
Alejo Fernández in Sevilla and Córdoba: Juan de Zamora and Cristóbal de Morales
Granada: Juan Ramírez
Sevilla: P. de Campaña
Michaelangelic Romanism in Andalucia: Pablo de Céspedes
Counter-reform: Pacheco

5. The Baroque in Andalucia in the XVII Century: general characteristics

6. Architecture of Transition
Proto-Baroque and Jesuit models: Bartolomé de Bustamante in Córdoba and Sevilla
Sevilla: Maeda y Juan de Oviedo, M. de Zumárraga, A. de Vandelvira
Plain Baroque in Granada: Alonso Cano
Urbanism

7. Baroque Sculpture in Andalucia: general characteristics, iconography, techniques
Proto-Baroque in Sevilla: Montañés and his school; J. de Mesa and other sculptors
Granada: Alonso Cano and his school; P. de Mena
Sculptors from the time of Carlos II: P. Roldán and the Sevillian school

8. Andalucian Baroque Painting in the XVII Century: general characteristics
The reign of Felipe III: Sánchez Cotán in Granada
Sevilla: Roelas and Herrera
The great generation of the reign of Felipe IV: Zurbarán, Alonso Cano
Velázquez in Sevilla
The era of Carlos II: Herrea el Mozo, Murillo, Valdés Leal

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A.A.V.V. Historia del Arte en Andalucía. Tomos IV al V. Ed. Gever. Sevilla.
A.A.V.V. Historia del Arte Hispánico. Tomo III y IV. Ed. Alhambra. Madrid.
Colección "Ars Hispaniae". Varios números. Madrid.
Pérez Calero, G. Valdés leal. Caja San Fernando. Sevilla, 1991.
Valdivieso, E. Historia de la pintura sevillana. Guadalquivir. Sevilla, 1992.