Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
Monday, January 18, 2016 (meeting place/classroom to be announced) | INTRODUCTION TO COURSE: SYLLABUS, LIBRARY RESOURCES | For background information: Wittkower, vol. I, Introduction, chapter 1 | | |
Monday, January 25, 2016 (meet at entrance to Vatican Museums) | RENAISSANCE VS. BAROQUE. THE CONCEPT OF MANNERISM: WHAT DID 17th c. ARTISTS LOOK AT?
Vatioan pinacoteca, masterpieces of ancient sculpture, Raphael's "School of Athens", Michelangelo's "Sistine Ceiling" | Panofsky, "What is baroque?" | | |
Monday, February 1, 2016 (meet at entrance to Doria-Pamphilj Gallery) | THE CARRACCI REFORM OF PAINTING, CARAVAGGIO'S EARLY RELIGIOUS PAINTING, PAMPHILJ PATRONAGE | Wittkower, vol. I, chapters 2 and 3. For Alessandro Algardi, Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 5, pp. 88-94; Feigenbaum, "Practice in the Carracci Academy" | | |
Monday, February 8, 2016 (meet in classroom before going on-site) | 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; G. B. Agucchi's "Treatise on Painting"; G. P. Bellori, "The Idea of the Painter , the Sculptor and the Architect"; G. P. Bellori, "Life of Caravaggio" | | |
Monday, February 15, 2016 (meet in classroom before going on-site) | 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 22, 2016 (meet in classroom) | GIAN LORENZO BERNINI'S EARLY SCULPTURE; VILLA BORGHESE GALLERY; BAROQUE ART AND THE PATRONAGE OF CARDINAL SCIPIONE BORGHESE | Wittkower, vol. II, chapter 1 (Introduction), chapter 2, pp. 5-23 | | |
Monday, February 29, 2016 (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 THE PALAZZO BARBERINI DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. ATTACH TICKET STUB. | |
****Friday, March 4, 2016 (MAKE UP CLASS FOR APRIL 25) | BAROQUE CONTEXT OF TRASTEVERE; SOME MONUMENTS IN THE VICINITY OF JCU (Corsini Gallery/Residence of Queen Christina of Sweden; Stefano Maderno's "Santa Cecilia" in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere; Bernini's "Blessed Ludovica" in San Francesco a Ripa) | Montanari, "Bellori and Christina of Sweden" | | |
Monday, March 7, 2016 (meet in classroom) | MIDTERM EXAM | | | Monday, March 7, 2016 (meet in classroom) |
Monday, March 14, 2016 (meet near obelisk at 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 21, 2016 (meet by the Trevi Fountain) | BORROMINI VS. BERNINI (Churches: SS. Vincenzo e 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 28, 2016 NO CLASS (Pasquetta and Spring vacation) | | | | |
Monday, April 4, 2016 (meet near the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona) | BERNINI AND BORROMINI CONTINUED; PAMPHILJ PATRONAGE CONTINUED; PIETRO DA CORTONA CONTINUED (Pietro da Cortona's facade of Santa Maria della Pace, and frescoed ceiling in Chiesa Nuova; Borromini's facade of the Oratorio dei Filippini; Borromini's Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza; Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers and Sant'Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona) | 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) | |
Monday, April 11, 2016 (meet outside entrance to church of S. Ignazio) | THE JESUITS; LATE BAROQUE ILLUSIONISTIC CEILING PAINTING (Il Gesù Church: G. B. Gaulli/Baccicia, "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 8, pp. 134-145 | | |
Monday, April 18, 2016 (meet near obelisk at center of Piazza del Popolo) | LATE BAROQUE MONUMENTS AND SQUARES (Piazza del Popolo and twin churches; 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 25, 2016 NO CLASS (National Holiday). See make up day Friday, March 4) | | | | |
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED (FINALS WEEK) | FINAL EXAM | | | DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED |