History of Architecture


 

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 3rd, 2024 (Wednesday)

12 pm – 2 pm |  room: T35

1. Introduction to the course. Main Objectives | Vocabulary

 

April 4th, 2024 (Thursday)

11 am – 1 pm | room: P24

2. 15th century in Italy. Architecture and Humanism

 

April 8th, 2024 (Monday)

10 am – 12 pm | room: P2

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. Renaissance Architectural Theory | part 1

 

April 15th, 2024 (Monday)

10 am – 12 pm | room: P2

6. On-site Visit: Palazzo Venezia

 

April 17th, 2024 (Wednesday)

12 pm – 2 pm |  room: T35

7. Bramante’s Rome

 

April 18th, 2024 (Thursday)

11 am – 1 pm | room: P24

8. On-site Visit: the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio

 

April 22nd, 2024 (Monday)

10 am – 12 pm | room: P2

9. Raphael’s Rome

 

April 24th, 2024 (Wednesday)

12 pm – 2 pm |  room: T35

10. Renaissance Architectural Theory | part 2

 

April 29th, 2024 (Monday)

10 am – 12 pm | room: P2

11. Challenging Vitruvianism: Michelangelo’s Rome

 

May 2nd, 2024 (Thursday)

11 am – 1 pm | room: P24

12. On site Visit: Palazzo Farnese (exterior) and Capitoline Hill

 

May 6th, 2024 (Monday)

10 am – 12 pm | room: P2

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 pm | room: P24

15. On site Visit: Villa Giulia (now hosting the Museo Nazionale Etrusco)

 

 

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)

John Coolidge, The Villa Giulia: A Study of Central Italian Architecture in the Mid-Sixteenth Century, «The Art Bulletin», Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep. 1943), pp. 177-225.

 

 

 

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