Attention will also be paid to issues relating to the wider artistic situation of the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance and Mannerism, including those of patronage, iconography, technique and types of commission. It begins with a study of Baroque art and architecture in Italy, concentrating upon Gianlorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio and the Carracci. Next there is a series of lectures devoted to art and architecture in France. A further series of lectures treats seventeenth-century painting in Flanders and Holland. These emphasise Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Vermeer.
Subsequent lectures introduce eighteenth-century painting in Italy and France.
Much of the later part of the module focuses on art and architecture in Britain. The module ends with three lectures treating the visionary painter and poet, William Blake, and the great English landscape painters, John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner.