PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE by week, but stay alert for changes:
1. (Tuesday Jan. 17) Introduction. Meet (this time only) at JCU Art Studio, Largo dei Fiorentini, 1. Lesson: two opposed languages of drawing, line vs. tonal value. Discussion of materials.
2. (Tues. Jan. 24) Meet at the Campidoglio (the piazza of the Capitoline Hill, up the big stairs to the south of P.za Venezia. Entry fee if bad weather. Lesson: view-finding, thumbnail sketches.
Assignment: Ten fast sketches.
3. (Tues. Jan. 31) Meet at Santa Sabina on the Aventino. (From school walk to the other side of the river at Tiber Island, then continue south past S. Maria in Cosmedin; after the main street leading to the Circo Massimo turn left up a little pathway called the Clivio di Rocca Savella leading from the river to the Aventine hill. Past the famous orange grove you will find the big parking lot of S. Sabina. Wait there.) No bare shoulders or shorts in this or other churches. Lesson devoted to solving problems of perspective.
Assignment: Five sketches of perspectives.
4. (Tues. Feb. 7) Meet by the fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini. We will be looking at the Baroque by seeing the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa by Bernini and the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini. Drawing greater complexity.
Assignment: Slower drawings that include more information.
5. (Tues. Feb. 14) Meet at the entry to S. Peter's Square. Lesson involves depicting a large outdoor urban space.
Assignment: Drawing large spaces, such as Piazza Farnese or Piazza Navona.
6. (Tues. Feb. 21) Meet at 9:00 at the bus stop for the 23 bus (on the Lungotevere, from school turn left just before Ponte Sisto); we will go by public transportation to the Centrale Montemartini, in Via Ostiense. Bring bus tickets. Lesson regards light and dark contrast. Entry fee.
Assignment: Five drawings with light and shadows, with high contrast of light and dark (even a still life with a spot light on it).
7. (Tues. Feb. 28) Meet at Palazzo Altemps, a museum of classical sculpture located in the block just north of Piazza Navona. The entrance is in Piazza Sant’Apollinare 46 which is just outside of the curved end of Piazza Navona. Drawing the large sarcophagus and other statues from antiquity. Entry fee 7 euros
Assignment: Roman antiquity or art from the past. (The ticket from Palazzo Altemps is valid for the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica at Palazzo Massimo in Piazza dei Cinquecento, which the square in front of the Termini train station).
8. (Fri. Mar. 3, make-up day for Tuesday, April 25) Orto Botanico; meet at Guarini entry, and we walk from there. Entry fee 6 euros. "Scribble drawings"; observation of nature.
9. (Tues. Mar. 7) Meet at Piazza Mattei (the “Turtle Fountain”). Off Via Arenula, near Largo Argentina, take Via dei Falegnami. A series of figure drawing exercises.
Assignment 7: Three figures from the past.
10. (Tues. Mar. 14) Meet at Trajan's Market. Past P.za Venezia, past Trajan's Column, and up the steps. Drawing lesson on clarifying point of view: looking up and looking down. Entry fee.
Assignment 8: Five Roman views (can one still find a way to be personal in a city that has been depicted so many times before?)
11. (Tues. Mar. 21) Meet at Guarini entry, and we walk from there to Tiber Island. Problems in cityscape, landscape, riverscape, water, atmosphere.
Assignment 9: Drawing from nature.
12. (Tues. Mar. 28) Meet at Guarini entry; we’ll go up the Gianicolo to Bramante’s Tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio. Drawing architecture, round forms in perspective, also views over the city.
Assignment 10: Bring your sketchbook on your travels and draw from where you are.
April 4, no class, Spring Break.
13. (Tues. April 11) Meet at Ponte Sant’Angelo, under the Castel Sant'Angelo. Drawing focuses movement of people within a given sight, catching a glimpse of fiures today in relation to the still figures of the past.
Assignment 11: Everyday life in Rome.
14. (Tues. April 18) Final meeting at JCU Art Studio, Largo dei Fiorentin, 1. Group critique. Appointments made for individual meetings that take the place of a final exam.
Tues., April 25, Holiday, no class
Thurs., April 27 we will hold a student art exhibition.
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