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Renaissance & Baroque Rome: Art & Architecture in the Papal City
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Faith & Religion
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Global Business & Governance
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Liberal Arts & Sciences
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The Legacy of Modern Italy
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Rome
Location: Rome, ItalyPrimary Subject Area: Art History
Other Subject Area(s): Architecture
Level(s): 300
UNH Course Code: ARH331
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 = $135; Fall 2009 fee = $135; Spring 2010 fee = $140; Fall 2010 fee = $140
Description
The objective of this course is to provide students with the necessary background, context and methodology to understand Renaissance and Baroque art and the transition from one period to the other. In class and during our many site visits to museums and churches in both Rome and Florence including the Vatican Museums, St.Peter's basilica, Villa Borghese, the Uffizi and the Academy, students will learn to recognize, interpret and analyze a work of art produced in Italy between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries and place it both within its artistic and historical context and within the individual artist's career. In addition, the course should widen students' cultural horizons, and increase their capacity to absorb and elaborate sophisticated intellectual and artistic issues in the future. A special overnight class trip to Florence will give us a chance to visit some of that city's most important museums and galleries, focusing on the works of Leonardo, Botticelli and Michelangelo.
This course gives students a survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Rome from Giotto to Bernini, a period marking the passage from the Middle Ages to Modernity through the rediscovery of the heritage of the Classics, the transformation of Christian Europe that followed Luther?s Reformation, and the passage from feudalism to absolutism. These great changes are reflected in the art movements of the time: the Renaissance with its search for balance and harmony, Mannerism with its emphasis on the artist's persona, and the Baroque with its complexity and goal of a new unity of artistic media.
Onsite classes and visits will help you acquire a concrete idea of Rome as a city that was home to many of the major Renaissance artists and the cradle of the Baroque revolution. Fundamental to the course is the examination of masterworks by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Bernini and others in situ in the city's public piazze, famous museums, palaces and churches.
The course also demonstrates that a clearer understanding Renaissance and Baroque Art is achieved by following various traditional methodologies - philosophical, theological, aesthetic, historical/archival, iconographic and political.
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