AHI 235 ART REV 17TH CTURY NRTHERN EU

A study of baroque art in the Catholic, court culture of the southern Netherlands and in the Protestant, republican, burgher culture of the northern Netherlands. In the northern Netherlands, Europe's only democracy, artists created a modern, cultural revolution by overthrowing the dominance of courtly elites. Court painters, such as Rubens in the southern Netherlands extolled monarchy, war, empire, social hierarchy, elegant gardens, and refined leisure. Dutch art elevated everyday subjects, female interiors, working farms, Dutch cities, and still life.