Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 (Meet in classroom G.K.1.3) | 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 | | |
Tuesday, January 28, 2020; Meet at the Arch of Constantine | TRACING THE REBIRTH OF ANTIQUITY IN ROME
The Arch of Constantine, Santa Pudenziana, Santa Prassede
| Vasari, Preface to "Lives of the Artists" (particularly pp. 25-38; 45-47); Stinger, pp. 59-76 | | |
Tuesday, February 4, 2020; Meet in classroom | PAINTING FROM THE SO-CALLED PROTO-, EARLY AND HIGH RENAISSANCE PERIODS
Pinacoteca at the Vatican Museums | Cennini, excerpts from "Il libro dell'arte"; Leon Battista Alberti, "On Painting"; Vasari, Preface to Part Two "Lives of the Artists" | | |
Tuesday, February 11, 2020: Meet outside Colosseum facing metro stop | FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE: BASILICA OF SAN CLEMENTE | Partridge 1996, pp. 109-112 | | |
Tuesday, February 18, 2020; Meet in classroom before going out on-site | EARLY RENAISSANCE CHURCH: SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO (Pope Sixtus IV as "Urbis Restaurator") | Dunlop 2003, pp. 259-285; Stinger, pp. 31-46 | | |
Tuesday, February 25, 2020; Meet at Pantheon | FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE IN THE PANTHEON, SANTA MARIA SOPRA MINERVA | Geiger, pp. 62-75; Wallace, "Michelangelo's Risen Christ", pp. 1251-1280; Wallace, pp. 3-19, 28-49 | | |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020; Meet in classroom before going on-site | RENAISSANCE CHURCHES: SANT'AGOSTINO AND SANTA MARIA DELLA PACE (BRAMANTE'S CLOISTER) | Bonito 1982, pp. 268-276 | | |
***Tuesday, March 10, 2020 NO CLASS/SPRING BREAK | | | | |
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | VILLA FARNESINA | | | |
Tuesday, March 24, 2020; Meet in classroom before going out on-site | BRAMANTE'S TEMPIETTO | Stinger, pp. 181-188; Rowland 2006/7, pp. 225-238 | | |
Tuesday, March 31, 2020; 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) | | |
Tuesday, April 7, 2020: 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 | | |
Tuesday, April 14, 2020: Meet at entrance to Vatican Museums | MICHELANGELO'S SISTINE CEILING, RAPHAEL'S STANZA DELLA SEGNATURA, AND MASTERPIECES OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE | | | |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020: Meet at top of Capitoline Hill | CAPITOLINE HILL, PIAZZA DEL CAMPIDOGLIO, PALAZZO VENEZIA (façade) and MICHELANGELO'S "MOSES" in S. Pietro in Vincoli | Blondin 2005, pp. 1-25; Stinger, pp. 254-264; Wallace, pp. 229-232, 330-337; Frommel, pp. 39-65; Wallace, pp. 72-80, 105-107, 188-199; Panofsky, pp. 561-579 | | |
Tuesday, April 28, 2020: Meet in classroom before going out on-site | VILLA FARNESINA, PONTE SISTO, VIA GIULIA AND PALAZZO FARNESE (FACADE) | Rowland 1986, pp. 673-730 | | |
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 |
| REQUIRED RESERVED READING: | The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, Penguin Books 1987; On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti, Penguin Books 1991; The Renaissance in Rome by Charles L. Stinger, Indiana University Press 1998; Classic Art an Introduction to the Italian Renaissance by Heinrich Wolfflin, Phaidon 1994; The Craftsman's Handbook (Il libro dell'arte) by Cennino Cennini, Dover 1960; Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times, by William E. Wallace, Cambridge University Press 2012. | OTHER ASSIGNED READING WILL BE ANNOUNCED. | |
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