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This lecture-only course will familiarise students with artistic achievements in northern Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, from the perspective of a series of identified themes, explored in the social, economic, political and cultural context of the age. It will examine the importance of the painted and the print image by artists like Jan van Eyck, Pieter Brughel, Albrecht Dürer, Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn and others. Their work on a range of themes will be explored in the creation of personal, civic, national and religious identity, during a dynamic period of dynastic alliances and religious conflict, of geographic discovery and scientific exploration. It will explore the complex reasons behind the specialisation of artists in the thematic areas of landscape, religion, portraiture, genre, and still life, as well as the important contextual changes in patronage and the market which in turn affected the nature of art production. These factors will be examined in order to gain insight into the ways in which art mirrored the society in which it was created.
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