PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE
WEEK: 1 Introduction. Meet (this time only) at art studio, Largo dei Fiorentini, 1
2 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: two opposed languages of drawing: line vs. tonal value, view-finding, thumbnail sketches.
3 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 you will find a little pathway called the Clivio di Rocca Savella leading up from the river to the Aventine hill; first you come to the famous orange grove, and then the big parking lot of S. Sabina.) No bare shoulders or shorts in this or other churches. Lesson devoted to solving problems of perspective.
4 Meet at Palazzo Altemps; this is a museum of classical sculpture located in the block just north of Piazza Navona. The entrance is in a piazza off Corso Rinascimento and parallel to Via Zanardelli. Entry fee 7 euros. Drawing the large sarcophagus, etc.
5 Meet at Ponte Sant’Angelo, far end. Drawing focuses on the Baroque and the figure.
6 Meet at school and we will go by public transportation to the Centrale Montemartini, in Via Ostiense. Bring bus tickets. Lesson regards light and dark contrast.
7 Meet at Trajan's Market. Past Piazza Venezia, past Trajan's Column, and up the steps. Drawing lesson on clarifying point of view: looking up and looking down.
8 To be announced
9 Meet at Piazza Mattei (the “Turtle Fountain”). Off Via Arenula, near Largo Argentina, take Via dei Falegnami. A series of figure drawing exercises.
10 Orto Botanico; meet at the main building, V. della Lungara, and we walk from there. Entry fee 6 euros. "Scribble drawings"; observation of nature.
11 Meet at the main building, Via della Lungara, and we walk from there to Tiber Island. Problems in cityscape, landscape, riverscape, water, atmosphere.
12 Meet at school in Via della Lungara; 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.
13 Meet at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, on Corso del Rinascimento, one block east of P.zza Navona. Drawing Baroque architecture.
14 Final meeting at art studio, Largo dei Fiorentini. Appointments made for individual meetings that take the place of a final exam.