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2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 565 - Painting as Power: The Politics of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Spanish Empire


(3 units)

Prerequisites: GE Foundation requirements, one or more Exploration courses, and upper division standing.
Explores the history of the Spanish Empire (Spain and Spanish America) ca. 1500-1800 through the politics of visual culture (paintings, maps, clothing, festivals, architecture.) Historical focus on the social, cultural, and political implications of visual culture. Emphasis on the connections between metropolitan and colonial culture and politics and reading visual culture as historical documentation.

Letter grade only (A-F).