Early Modern Art - A
2021/2022
Prof. Arnold Nesselrath
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a.y. 2021-2022 – 1st semester
15. 10. 13-15 2 h Introductory session
15-17 2 h Lecture: art in Rome, the 15th and 16th centuries
28. 10. 09-12 3 h Visit to San Clemente
Masolino: Chapel of St Catherine tomb of Cardinal Roverella attrib. to Giovanni Dalmata
Tomb of Cardinal Venerio attrib. to Andrea Bregno
14-17 3 h Visit to S. Maria sopra Minerva:
Carafa Chapel
Tomb of Andrea Bregno
Michelangelo: Christ
29. 10. 10.30-14 3.5 h Visit to Villa Farnesina:
Galatea
Psyche
Peruzzi
Sodoma
15-17.30 2.5 h Visit to Campidoglio:
donation of Pope Sixtus IV
03. 11. 13-15 2 h Lecture: Sistina, ‘400
15-17 2 h Lecture: Michelangelo, Sistina
04. 11. 10-12 2 h Visit to the Church of S. Agostino
Raphael
Sansovino
29. 11. 9-11 2 h Lecture: Stanze di Raffaello
10. 12. 9-12 3 h Visit to the Church of S. Maria del Popolo
Pinturichio
Raphael
14-17 3 h Final discussion
Introductory session, lectures, and final discussion should take place in classrooms, visits on site.
Suggested Bibliography
General
- Amato Pietro Frutaz: "Le Piante di Roma", Rome 1962
- Sydney Freedberg: "Painting in Italy, 1500-1600", 1st edition Penguin/Yale University Press, New Haven, 1971
- Steffi Rottgen: "Affreschi italiani del Rinascimento". Tra '400 e '500, Pannini Editore, Modena 2000 (German edition, 2 vols., Himer Verlag, Munich 1996 and 1997)
Sistine Chapel
- Jorge Maria Cardinal Mejia, Arnold Nesselrath, Pier Nicola Pagliara & Maurizio De Luca: "The Fifteenth Century Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel" (Recent Restorations vol. IV), Vatican City State, 2003
- Arnold Nesselrath: "Vaticano - La Cappella Sistina - Il Quattorcento", Parma 2003 (Italian and French edition)
Iconography
- Bibel
- "Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie", Herder Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1968-1976
Art and Technique
- Carl Brandon Strehlke: "The Panel Paintings of Masolino and Masaccio - The Role of Technique", 5 Continents Edition, Milan 2002
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