Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
Monday, January 19, 2015 (meeting place/classroom to be announced) | INTRODUCTION TO COURSE
SYLLABUS | Background information: Wittkower, vol. I, Introduction, chapter 1 | | |
Monday, January 26, 2015 (meet at entrance to Vatican Museums) | RENAISSANCE VS. BAROQUE. THE CONCEPT OF MANNERISM. Vatican pinacoteca, masterpieces of ancient sculpture, Raphael's "School of Athens", Michelangelo's "Sistine Ceiling" | Panofsky, "What is Baroque?" | | |
Monday, February 2, 2015 (meet at entrance to Doria-Pamphilj Gallery) | THE CARRACCI REFORM 0F PAINTING, CARAVAGGIO'S EARLY PAINTING, PAMPHILJ PATRONAGE | Wittkower, vol. I, chapters 2 and 3. For Alessandro Algardi, Wittkower, vol. I, chapter 5, pp. 88-94. Feigenbaum, "Practice in the Carracci Academy" | | |
Monday, February 9, 2015 (meet at entrance to church of San Luigi dei Francesi) | CARAVAGGIO'S MATURE WORKS (PAINTINGS IN CHURCHES: SAN LUIGI DEI FRANCESI, SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO, SANT'AGOSTINO) | Excerpts from seventeenth-century sources:
Letter by Giustiniani to Amayden
Giovanni Battista Agucchi "Treatise on Painting"
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, "The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect"
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, "Life of Caravaggio" | | |
Monday, February 16, 2015 (meet in front of church of San Luigi dei Francesi) | THE CARAVAGGISTI, THE SPECIAL CASE OF ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, THE BOLOGNESE ARTISTS IN ROME (Domenichino's "Saint Cecilia" frescoes in San Luigi dei Francesi; Domenichino and Lanfranco's frescoes in San Andrea della Valle) | Cavazzini, "Artemisia in Her Father's House"
Wittkower , vol. I, chapter 4, pp. 41-58. vol. II, chapter 8, pp. 160-166 | VIEWING ASSIGNMENT OF THE SPADA GALLERY DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. ATTACH TICKET STUB. | |
Monday, February 23, 2015 ((meet in classroom at 1:30 pm) | GIANLORENZO BERNINI'S EARLY SCULPTURE; VILLA BORGHESE GALLERY; BAROQUE ART AND PATRONAGE OF CARDINAL SCIPIONE BORGHESE | Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 1 (Introduction), chapter 2, pp. 5-23 | | |
Monday, March 2, 2015 (meet near Triton fountain in center of Piazza Barberini) | ANDREA SACCHI AND PIETRO DA CORTONA; POPE URBAN VIII AND BARBERINI PATRONAGE (PALAZZO BARBERINI) | Haskell, "The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage"
Vitzthum, "A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's Barberini Ceiling"
Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 4, pp. 74-84; chapter 5, pp. 85-88 | VIEWING ASSIGNMENT ON PALAZZO BARBERINI DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. ATTACH TICKET STUB. | |
Monday, March 9, 2015 (neet in classroom at 1:30 pm) | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MIDTERM March 9, 2015 |
Monday, March 16, 2015 (meet near obelisk in center of Saint Peter's square) | THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE: CARLO MADERNO AND BERNINI; BASILICA AND PIAZZA DI SAN PIETRO | Wittkower, vol. I, chapter 6, pp. 75-79, vol. II, chapter 2, pp. 33-38 | | |
Monday, March 23, 2015 (meet by the Trevi Fountain) | BERNINI VS. BORROMINI (Churches: SS. Vincenzo ed Anastasio by Martino Longhi the Younger; Sant'Andrea al Quirinale by Bernini; San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini; Santa Susanna facade by Carlo Maderno; Santa Maria della Vittoria with "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" in the Cornaro Chapel by Bernini) | Lavin, "Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: 'Un Bel Composto"
Wittkower, vol II, chapter 2, pp. 23-33, chapter 3, pp. 39-45, pp. 106-107 | TICKET STUBS FROM THE BORGHESE GALLERY ARE DUE | |
Monday, March 30, 2015 (meet near the Four Rivers Fountain by Bernini in the center of Piazza Navona) | BERNINI AND BORROMINI CONTINUED; PAMPHILJ PATRONAGE CONTINUED; PIETRO DA CORTONA (Pietro da Cortona's facade of Santa Maria della Pace, and frescoed ceiling in the Chiesa Nuova; Borromini's facade of the Oratorio dei Filippini; Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza; Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; Sant'Agnese in Agone) | Connors, "Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe"
Excerpt of Baldinucci's Life of Bernini
Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 3, pp. 45-62; chapter 4, pp. 63-65, 70-74 | VIEW INTERIOR OF SANT'IVO ALLA SAPIENZA (open Sundays, 9 am to noon) | |
Mohday, April 6, 2015 NO CLASS (PASQUETTA AND SPRING VACATION) | | | | |
Monday, April 13, 2015 (meet outside entrance to Sant'Ignazio church) | THE JESUITS; LATE BAROQUE ILLUSIONISTIC CEILING PAINTINGS (Il Gesù Church: G.B. Gaulli/Baciccia, "Adoration of the Name of Jesus"; Elephant obelisk, Sant'Ignazio Church: A. Pozzo, "Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits"; Piazza Sant'Ignazio, Santa Maria in Via Lata facade; San Marcello al Corso facade) | Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 3, pp. 134-145 | | |
Monday, April 20, 2015 (meet near obelisk at center of Piazza del Popolo) | LATE BAROQUE MONUMENTS AND SQUARES (Piazza del Popolo, Sant'Andrea della Fratte, Collegio di Propaganda Fide, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain) | Wittkower, vol. III, chapter 1 (Introduction), chapter 2, pp. 5-17 | | |
Monday, April 27, 2015 (meet in classroom at 1:30 pm) | BAROQUE CONTEXT OF TRASTEVERE, SOME MONUMENTS IN THE VICINITY OF JCU (Corsini Gallery(Queen Christina of Sweden's residence, Stefano Maderno's "Santa Cecilia" in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Bernini's "Blessed Ludovica Albertoni" in San Francesco a Ripa) | Montanari, "Bellori and Christina of Sweden" | VIEWING ASSIGNMENT ON SANT'IVO ALLA SAPIENZA AND SANT'ANDREA AL QUIRINALE iS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.. | |
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED | FINAL EXAM | | | TO BE ANNOUNCED |