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The Great Masters: Leonardo, Michelangelo & Raphael
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Italian Language & Culture
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Modern Italian Perspectives
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Florence
Location: Florence, ItalyPrimary Subject Area: Art History
Level(s): 300
UNH Course Code: ARH333
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Additional Fee Description: This course requires payment of an additional fee to cover active learning components that are above and beyond typical course costs, such as site visits, entrance fees and other expenses. Spring 2009 fee = $325; Fall 2009 fee = $325; Spring 2010 fee = $400; Fall 2010 fee = $400
Description
This unique course will allow you to explore High Renaissance art and architecture in Florence and Rome like an insider, exploiting onsite access to High Renaissance artworks in museums, restorations laboratories and many areas normally closed to the general public. You'll learn about the landmark works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael through onsite discussions in front of their masterpieces, in Florentine galleries like the Uffizi, the Academy (the David), Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, Medici Chapels, visiting Rome on a special 2-day seminar including tours of the Vatican, the Sistine chapel, and Villa Borghese, and a special class daytrip to Vinci, Leonardo?s birthplace, to analyse modern reconstructions of his famous inventions.
You'll also be taken behind the scenes in the company of experts on a rare visit to the city's leading restoration lab to learn more about the fragile condition of paintings, like Raphael's priceless Madonna of the Goldfinch. As a follow-up application you'll also get a chance to try fresco painting employing the same materials and techniques of Renaissance artists.
You will also get a rare opportunity to tour historic spaces normally closed to the public including the secret routes, rooms, grottos and gardens of the Medici family's Ducal residences at Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. A constant benefit of these special activities will be the presence of restorers, guest lecturers and curators, who will give you practical insights into their work and their careers.
Your own critical understanding of the spectacular artistic legacy of the High Renaissance will develop through a sequence of independent looking assignments, group discussions in class, multi-media presentations prepared by teams, and short research reports on various aspects of iconography, style and technique
In the final weeks of the course you will consider the legacy of the High Renaissance and look ahead to the Baroque masterpieces of Bernini, Borromini and Caravaggio.
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