Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 (G.K.1.2. Guarini campus, Kushlan wing, first floor, room 2) | INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION TO COURSE | Burckhardt, pp. 104-107; Jensen, "Introduction: The Meaning of the Renaissance", pp. 1-6; Stinger, pp. 1-13; Kristeller, "The Humanist Movement", pp. 21-32 | | |
Wednesday, January 25, 2017; Meet at the Arch of Constantine | TRACING THE REBIRTH OF ANTIQUITY IN ROME
The Arch of Constantine, Santa Pudenziana, Santa Prassede, San Clemente
| Vasari, Preface to "Lives of the Artists" (particularly pp. 25-38; 45-47); Stinger, pp. 59-76 | | |
Wednesday, February 1, 2017; Meet outside entrance to Vatican Musuems | PAINTING FROM THE SO-CALLED PROTO-, EARLY AND HIGH RENAISSANCE PERIODS
Pinacoteca at the Vatican Museums | Pastor, pp. 165-214; Cennini, excerpts from "Il libro dell'arte"; Leon Battista Alberti, "On Painting"; Vasari, Preface to Part Two "Lives of the Artists" | | |
Wednesday, February 8, 2017; Meet in classroom before going on-site | PANTHEON AND RENAISSANCE ART IN SANTA MARIA SOPRA MINERVA | Geiger, pp. 62-75; Wallace, "Michelangelo's Risen Christ", pp. 1251-1280; Wallace, pp. 3-19, 28-49 | | |
Wednesday, February 15, 2017; Meet in classroom before going out on-site | RENAISSANCE CHURCHES: SANTA MARIA DELLA PACE and Bramante's Cloister, SANT'AGOSTINO and SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO | Dunlop 2003, pp. 259-285, Bonito 1982, pp. 268-276; Stinger, pp. 31-46 | | |
Wednesday, February 22, 2017; Meet in classroom before going on-site | PONTE SISTO, VIA GIULIA, Bramante's TEMPIETTO | Stinger, pp. 181-188; Rowland 2006/7, pp. 225-238 | | |
Wednesday, March 1, 2017; Meet at center of Saint Peter's Square | NEW SAINT PETER'S BASILICA AND MICHELANGELO'S "PIETA'" | Vasari, "Life of Michelangelo"; Contract for the "Pietà"; Michelangelo's letter about the Tomb of Julius II (2 May 1506); Selected poems by Michelangelo; Ziegler "Michelangelo's 'Pietà'", pp. 28-36; Wallace, pp. 222-229 (Michelangelo at Saint Peter's) | | |
Wednesday, March 8, 2017: Meet in classroom for lecture | MICHELANGELO'S SISTINE CEILING and RAPHAEL'S STANZA DELLA SEGNATURA | Saint Augustine on Christian Doctrine, pp. 64-65, 74-75; Stinger, pp. 264-291;Vasari, "Life of Raphael"; Verdon, "Pagans in the Church: 'The School of Athens' in Religious Context"; Wolfflin, pp. 50-67; Wallace, pp. 89-105, 180-188 | | |
Wednesday, March 15, 2017: Meet at entrance to Vatican Museums | MICHELANGELO'S SISTINE CEILING, RAPHAEL'S STANZA DELLA SEGNATURA, AND MASTERPIECES OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE | | | |
Wednesday, March 22, 2017: Meet in classroom at JCU before going on-site | RENAISSANCE PALACES (Palazzo Venezia, Palazzo della Cancelleria. Palazzo Farnese) | | | |
Wednesday, March 29, 2017: Meet at top of Capitoline Hill | CAPITOLINE HILL, PIAZZA DEL CAMPIDOGLIO and MICHELANGELO'S "MOSES" in S. Pietro in Vincoli | Blondin 2005, pp. 1-25; Stinger, pp. 254-264; Wallace, pp. 229-232, 330-337; Burroughs, pp. 85-111; Frommel, pp. 39-65; Wallace, pp. 72-80, 105-107, 188-199; Panofsky, pp. 561-579 | | |
*Wednesday, April 5, 2017: NO CLASS---SPRING BREAK | | | | |
Wednesday, April 12, 2017: Meet in classroom | VILLA FARNESINA | Rowland 1986, pp. 673-730 | | |
Wednesday, April 19, 2017: Meet outside the Doria-Pamphilj Gallery | Renaissance and Baroque art at the Doria-Pamphilj Gallery | | | |
Wednesday, April 26, 2017: Meet in classroom | REVIEW SESSION | | | |
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED: FINAL EXAM | | Read all of the textbook, Loren Partridge, "The Art of the Renaissance in Rome 1400-1600", before the final exam. Focus on material covered in class. | | DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED |