Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
January 14, 2014 | Meeting 1: Introduction to course; The Pantheon | Marder 1989. Recommended, on-reserve: Dixon, ed. 2008: Reading 1 (after meeting) | Meeting point: Campus (Tiber Campus 1.2) and site visit (Church Dress Code) | |
January 21, 2014 | Meeting 2: The Counter-Reformation: the reform of sacred art and space: S. Stefano in Rotundo, S. Pressede, S. Maria Maggiore | Buser 1976 (Course Post-It) | Meeting point: On steps at south end of Colosseum, across from the “Martini Café” (not Colosseo Metro stop) (Church Dress Code) | |
January 28, 2014 | Meeting 3: From Renaissance innovations to Baroque competitions in painting styles: Vatican Museums (Paintings Gallery: Nicholas Poussin, Valentin de Bolougne, Caravaggio, and Orazio Gentileschi) and Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo) | Sohm 2001 (Course Post-It). On-reserve: Dixon, ed. 2008: Reading 3 (Sohm), esp p. 39-41 | Meeting point: Entrance to Vatican Museums at **8.45** (Church Dress Code) | |
February 4, 2014 | Meeting 4: Caravaggio, the most famous painter in Rome: S. Maria del Popolo, S. Agostino, S. Luigi dei Francesi (Church Dress Code)
| Jones 2008, ch. 2; Olson 2002 (Course Post-It) | Steps of S. Maria del Popolo | |
February 11, 2014 | Meeting 5: Caravaggio, from beginning to end: Galleria Borghese | Bellori, bio of Caravaggio (Course Post-It). On-Reserve: Dixon, ed. 2008: Reading 2 (Bellori), esp p. 23, and 30-33. | Entrance to Galleria Borghese at ** 8.45AM **
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February 18, 2014 | Meeting 6: The image of the female saint/blessed: S. Cecilia and Beata Francesca: S. Cecilia in Trastevere, S. Francesco a Ripa
| Kampf 2001 (Course Post-It) | Meeting point: At Piazza Bellini, Viale Trastevere (8 tram stop) (Church Dress Code) | |
March 4, 2014 | Meeting 8: Mid-Term Exam | | JCU Campus | |
March 11, 2014 | Meeting 9: Creating the Baroque City, pt. 1: Piazza/Palazzo Mattei, Palazzo Spada, Campo di Fiori, S. Maria della Pace, S. Agostino, Palazzo Borghese | San Juan 2001, ch. 4 and 6; Nussdorfer 1997 (Course Post-It) | Meeting point: "Turtle Fountain" in Piazza Mattei | |
March 25, 2014 | Meeting 10: Bernini’s beginnings: Galleria Borghese | Kenseth 1981; Warwick 2004 (Course Post-It) | Entrance to Galleria Borghese at ** 8.45AM ** | |
April 1, 2014 | Meeting 11: Two faces of the Baroque: Bernini and Borromini: S. Maria della Vittoria (S. Teresa), S. Carlo al Quattro Fontane, S. Andrea al Quirinale (façade only) | Call 1997; Connors 1990 (Course Post-It). On-Reserve: Dixon, ed. 2008: 5 (Connors). | Meeting point: Caffè Piccarozzi”, Piazza della Repubblica 62, at the top of via Nazionale near metro stop “Repubblica” (Church Dress Code) | |
February 25, 2014 | Meeting 7: NOT CLASS MEETING – class will be made up on April 15, 2014, 7.00PM | | | |
April 8, 2014 | Meeting 12: Reforming/rebuilding early Christian sites, pt. 1: S. Giovanni in Laterano (Baptsitry, Scala Santa, and the Basilica) | Freiberg 1991 (Course Post-it) | Meeting point: At Obelisk, end of Via Merulana (Church Dress Code) | |
April 11, 2014, Friday | PAPER DUE by Friday, 5pm, via email (See Paper Assignment Handout for Details) | | | |
April 15, 2014 | Meeting 13: Reforming/rebuilding early Christian sites, pt. 2: St. Peter’s Basilica | Reading: Rice 2008 (course Post-It); Tronzo 2005 (essay by Lavin) | Meeting point: Obelisk in center of piazza, St. Peter’s Basilica (Church Dress Code) | |
April 22, 2014 | Meeting 14: The Barberini: Palazzo Barberini | Waddy 1999 (Course Post-It). On-Reserve: Dixon, ed. 2008: Readings 15 (Vitzthum), and 14 (Waddy) | Meeting point: Piazza Barberini, at Bernini’s “Triton Fountain” (center of piazza) | |
April 15, 2014, 7.00PM | Make up for Meeting 7: Creating the Baroque City, pt. 2: Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain, and Piazza di Spagna | NO READING | Meeting point: Piazza Navona, in front of “Fountain of the Moro” (south end of piazza) | |
TBA | FINAL EXAM | | JCU Campus | |
March 18, 2014 | SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS MEETING | | | |