Art and Visual Culture in Early Modern England (HART0088)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: History of Art
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: This module is only available to final-year BA History of Art students, including BA History of Art, Materials and Technology, and including final-year students who are taking a combined-honours degree which includes History of Art in the programme title. The module is also available to affiliate students enrolled in the History of Art Department for a full academic year, and available to BASc Arts & Sciences (Cultures pathway) students who have previously completed a FHEQ Level 5 or 6 module in History of Art.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This course will examine the intersections of art and visual culture, medicine, knowledge and authority in early modern England. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were characterised by religious, dynastic and political upheaval in Britain, while the violence of colonialism and slavery can also be traced back to the period. At the same time, movement of people, and of ideas 鈥� facilitated in part by the development of print 鈥� contributed to technological innovation, scientific curiosity and empiricism. How then might we understand the role of images in all this? Concepts of mobility, transformation and exchange will be key to our approach, as will the representation of the human body. From self-fashioning and heraldic devices in portraiture, to case studies of anatomical imagery that offer insight into the capacity of print to rapidly disseminate information across geographical borders, we will investigate a wide range of media. Alongside this, we will consider different approaches to observing, measuring and recording. In this way, we aim open up questions as to the presumed 鈥榥aturalism鈥� of, for instance, John White鈥檚 watercolours representing the indigenous inhabitants encountered during colonizing expeditions to Roanoke Island in the 1580s, or the meticulous copperplate engravings of Robert Hooke鈥檚 Micrographia (1665).

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 6)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 90% Coursework

10% Viva or oral presentation
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 14
Module leader: Miss Rosemary Moore

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.

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