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COURSES FALL 2008

Histart 270

GRADUATE SEMINAR: (4 units) Wednesdays, 2-5 425 Doe , CCN: 05703 Todd Olson

Italian cultural influence was central to the formation of a French national culture. Italian painters such as Rosso Fiorentino and Parmigianino migrated to France and made significant contributions to the decorative elaboration of the Château at Fontainebleau. Some of the effects of this itinerant culture can be seen in the projects at Fontainebleau, whether the Odyssey in fresco and stucco or a latent mythological world made of sugar. The School of Fontainebleau and its aftermath werefs transferred beyond the confines of the court through engravings. But this fantastic, excessive, sexually-charged, grotesque image-world can best be understood in relation to a larger pattern of trans-cultural migration. French speakers were also travelers, taking their material practices to Spain, England and the New World, following the paths of colonial expansion. In addition to the transport of persons speaking different languages, the migration of imagery and technologies in architecture and prints entailed complex patterns of transmission and translation on a global scale.

 

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