The course, dedicated to students of the Master’s Degree, is aimed at implementing the knowledge and critical understanding of art and figurative culture in Italy and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is a period beaten by the studies of the last century only from about the twenties. The course aims to provide the critical and historiographical tools to address this segment of art history. It also aims to provide knowledge about artists and works performed in this period through a history of figurative production in the main Italian centers, studied both from the point of view of patronage and patronage, both, no less important, stylistically and formally speaking. One of the main objectives of the course is in fact the acquisition by students of the ability of stylistic analysis and consequently the ability to attribute the works performed in these two centuries.