1. The European World 1500-1750 Theme 3: Culture ART AND SOCIETY Jonathan Davies (Powerpoint and handout are on the website)

2. Questions What were the functions of the visual arts? How did art markets develop across Europe?

3. … the traditional notion of art is unhelpful. Any image belonged to a wider category of goods, one which included liturgical and household furnishings, clothing, embroidery, maps, clocks, scientific, and musical instruments – objects which all contributed to a general sense of a contemporary visual culture’. [Evelyn Welch, Art in Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 1997), p. 133]

4. Bartholomaeus van Bassen, Interior with Banqueters, 1618-20

5. Agostino di Duccio, Oratorio di San Bernardino, 1457-1461

6. Destruction of icons in Zurich, 1524

7. Job Berckheyde, St Bavo in Haarlem, 1668

8. Giovanni Paolo Pannini, St Peter’s in Rome, 1731

9. Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1510

10. Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait, 1500

11. Neri di Bicci, Virgin and Child with Saints, c. 1445

12. Hugo van der Goes, The Portinari Altarpiece, 1476-79

13. Rembrandt, The Auctioneer, 1655-62