Principal Publications from the Reserve Reading List:
Heydenreich and Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1400-1600
R. Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
J. Poeschke, Donatello and his World
J. Poeschke, Michelangelo and his World
R. Krautheimer, Ghiberti
Diane Cole Ahl, The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio
Loren Partridge, The Art of Renaissance Florence 1400-1600
Martin Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci
Howard Hibbard, Michelangelo
Jones and Penny, Raphael
Marcia Hall, Rome
David Rijser, Raphael's Poetics
Preliminary listing of lectures and visits (subject to change):
1. Introduction to the course and to the Italian Renaissance (Aug. 31)
2. Brunelleschi and Early Renaissance Architecture (Sept. 7)
3. Donatello, Ghiberti and Early Renaissance Sculpture (Sept. 14)
4. Early Renaissance painting: Masaccio (Sept. 21)
5. “ “ “ : Lippi, Angelico (Sept. 28)
6. “ “ “ : Veneziano, Castagno (Oct. 5)
7. MID-TERM EXAM (Oct. 12)
Florence Weekend – Fri.- Sun., Oct. 14-16
8. No Class (made up on Florence trip) (Oct. 19)
9. Leonardo da Vinci (Oct. 26)
10. Site visit: S.M. sopra Minerva and S. Agostino (Nov. 2)
Meet in front of S. M. sopra Minerva at the Elephant Obelisk
11. Michelangelo (Nov. 9)
12. No Class (made up on Florence trip) (Nov. 16)
13. Raphael (Nov. 23)
14. Site visit: Villa Farnesina (Nov. 30)
Meet in front of JCU Guarini Campus entrance [Research Papers Due]