Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture

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Baroque. The birth of Baroque painting in Italy ; The sacred and secular in painting in seventeenth-century Italy ; Italian Baroque sculpture and the Bel Composto ; Baroque architecture in Italy ; The Golden Age of Spain and viceregal America ; The human figure in Dutch seventeenth-century painting ; Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic's Golden Age ; Flemish Baroque painting in the age of Rubens ; French painting and prints of the seventeenth century ; Baroque architecture in France and England -- Rococo. French painting from the regency to the reign of Louis XV ; The public and the private in French painting of the enlightenment ; French sculpture and architecture in the eighteenth century ; The Georgian panorama in British painting and prints ; Architecture and gardens in eighteenth-century Britain -- Eighteenth-century Austria, Germany, and Italy.