Academic Year 2023/2024
History of Architecture
Prof.ssa Sara Bova (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
2023/2024 - MS Teams Class 2023/2024
Syllabus
Renaissance Rome. From Alberti to Michelangelo
Important | before the beginning of the course, you are expected to read the following book
J.N. Summerson, The classical language of architecture, London 1980.
April 4th, 2024 (Thursday)
11 am – 1 pm | room: T32
1. Introduction to the course. Main Objectives | Vocabulary
April 4th, 2024 (Thursday)
1 pm – 3 pm | room: P22
2. 15th century in Italy. Architecture and Humanism
April 8th, 2024 (Monday)
9 am – 11 am | room: T26
3. Apart from Rome: main humanistic centres of the Italian Renaissance
April 10th, 2024 (Wednesday)
12 pm – 2 pm | room: T35
4. Alberti’s Rome
April 11th, 2024 (Thursday)
11 am – 1 pm | room: P24
5. Rome in late 15th century
April 15th, 2024 (Monday)
9.30 am – 12 pm
6. On-site Visit: Palazzo Venezia
April 17th, 2024 (Wednesday)
12 pm – 2 pm | room: T35
7. Renaissance Architectural Theory
April 18th, 2024 (Thursday)
11 am – 1 pm | room: P24
8. Bramante’s Rome
April 22nd, 2024 (Monday)
9 am – 11 am | room: T26
9. Raphael’s Rome
April 24th, 2024 (Wednesday)
12 pm – 2 pm | (meeting directly on site)
10. On-site visit: The Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio
April 29th, 2024 (Monday)
9 am – 11 am | room: T26
11. Challenging Vitruvianism: Michelangelo’s Rome
May 2nd, 2024 (Thursday)
11 am – 1 pm (meeting directly on site)
12. On site Visit: Palazzo Farnese (exterior) and Capitoline Hill
May 8th, 2024 (Wednesday)
9 am – 11 pm | room: P3
13. The Roman Renaissance outside of Rome: Giulio Romano, Michele Samicheli and Jacopo Sansovino
May 8th, 2024 (Wednesday)
12 pm – 2 pm | room: T35
14. Andrea Palladio
May 9th, 2024 (Thursday)
11 am – 1 am (meeting directly on site)
15. On site Visit: Vatican Museums (with Professor Francesca Mari)
Bibliography:
Lecture 1.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, Introduction, pp. 12-25.
Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, London: Tiranti, 1971 (Studies of the Warburg Institute ; 19), Parts 1-2, 4, pp. 3-56, 101-126.
Lecture 2.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapter 1, pp. 13-26.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, Chapter 1, pp. 26-86.
Ludwig H. Heydenreich, Architecture in Italy 1400-1500, introduction and notes by P. Davies, New Haven 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapter 1, pp. 13-24.
Lecture 3.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapters 2, 5, pp. 47-50, 69-76.
Lecture 4.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapters 2-3, pp. 31-48, 51-54.
Ludwig H. Heydenreich, Architecture in Italy 1400-1500, introduction and notes by P. Davies, New Haven 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapters 4, 6, pp. 35-44, 55-58.
Lecture 5.
Architectural theory: pioneering texts on architecture from the Renaissance to today, vol. 1, Köln 2022, pp. 6-44.
Lecture 6. Visit (Suggested)
Torgil Magnuson, Studies in Roman Quattrocento architecture, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1958 (Figura, 9), Part 3rd, pp. 245-296.
Lecture 7.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapter 9, pp. 99-115.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, pp. 125-126, 149-157.
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500-1600, revised by Deborah Howard, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapter 1, pp. 11-26.
Lecture 8. Visit (Suggested)
Arnaldo Bruschi, Bramante, London: Thames & Hudson, 1977, pp. 129-143.
Lecture 9.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapter 9, pp. 115-125.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, Chapter 2, pp. 159-176, 180-187.
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500-1600, revised by Deborah Howard, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (1st ed. 1974), pp. 27-34, 35-39, 45-60.
Lecture 10.
Architectural theory: pioneering texts on architecture from the Renaissance to today, vol. 1, Köln 2022, pp. 44-83.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, pp. 188-190.
Lecture 11.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapters 9, 11, pp. 135-144, 171-184.
David Hemsoll, Emulating antiquity: Renaissance buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2019, Chapter 3, pp. 208-297.
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500-1600, revised by Deborah Howard, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapter 9, pp. 89-106.
Lecture 12. Visit (Suggested)
James S. Ackerman, The architecture of Michelangelo, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, Chapters 6-7, pp. 136-192.
Lecture 13:
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapters 9, 10, pp. 125-135, 157-169.
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500-1600, revised by Deborah Howard, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapters 6, 7, 8, pp. 67-88.
Lecture 14:
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, Chapters 9, 10, pp. 125-135, 157-169.
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500-1600, revised by Deborah Howard, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 (1st ed. 1974), Chapter 12, pp.147-158.
James S. Ackerman, Palladio, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966 (Pelican book 845), Chapters 13, pp. 201-213. (Suggested)
Lecture 15. Visit (Suggested)
James S. Ackerman, The Belvedere as a classical villa, «Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes», 14.1951, pp. 70-91.
