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SAM FOX WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Spring 2016 F 20 ART 3824 01 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE INSTRUCTOR: KATHARINA GIRALDI PHD [email protected] CELL PHONE 3347099886 Contact Hours: 45 Class time: Monday Afternoon: 1pm-4pm (due to Museum openings the times of some classes may be changed) Credits: 3 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE DESCRIPTION The Early Renaissance – also known as the Quattrocento – usually denotes the period from circa 1400 to circa 1500. In Italy those one hundred years (particularly in Florence) witnessed an extraordinary coming together of artistic talent, a passionate interest in the art and culture of Greek and Roman antiquity, a fierce sense of civic pride and an optimistic belief in the classical concept of “Man as the measure of all things”. This course examines the principal artists who contributed to this Cultural Revolution. In order to take full advantage of the special experience of studying the Renaissance in the very city of its birth, the stress is mainly, although not exclusively, on Florentine artists who include: sculptors as Donatello, Verrocchio and Michelangelo, painters as Giotto, Masaccio, Uccello, Botticelli, Leonardo and Raphael, architects as Brunelleschi and Alberti up to Sangallo. Visits to museums, galleries and key Renaissance monuments are an integral part of this course. These visits are timed to coincide with the material covered in class lectures. The Renaissance artists are not examined in isolation but a continual reference is made to the social and political conditions of the time: - patronage – the dominance of the Medici family as arbiters of artistic taste receives especial attention here- artists’ personalities- their training and the materials they used. - Broader issues such as Humanism- the philosophical school of Neo Platonism - penitential religious movements (see charismatic monk Savonarola) are examined in relation to their impact on the visual arts. OBJECTIVE This art history course is intended to provide students - whether they are future artists, architects, fashion designers or art history minors/majors – with a detailed introduction to Italian – specifically Florentine – Renaissance art of the fifteenth century. The approach is to focus on a select group of major artists rather than proposing a more generalized overview of a large number of artists. This means that by the conclusion of the course the student will be able to recognize and discuss the style of the work of many Renaissance artists. The student will be able to relate the individual works to patronage conditions and to pertinent social, religious and philosophical movements. On site teaching is a significant part of this course and is aimed at providing the student with the incomparable experience of studying important works of art and architecture at first hand. Freed from the purely academic constraints of the lecture room it is hoped that the student will learn the skill of how truly to look at a work of art. The expression of subjective and personal responses by individual students to the works of art is never undervalued – indeed is greatly encouraged. Through studying the Renaissance period in situ the student will also become uniquely aware of the day-to-day problems of conservation and restoration allied to the astoundingly rich cultural heritage of Florence. COURSE AIMS to familiarize students with Italian artists and artworks during the Italian Renaissance to allow students to understand these art works better by exploring their historical, social and urban contexts. to encourage students to develop the skills, both analytical and interpretative, required to examine and understand successfully an artwork. ATTANDANCE AND PUNKTUALITY Each session forms a building block in the larger structure of the course and once missed our visits cannot be rescheduled or effectively duplicated individually. For this reason you are not permitted to make any unjustified absences during this course. Two unjustified absences will lower your grade. A justified absence is one that is explained EITHER by a note from a Doctor OR by a note from the Program Director. Arriving late to class is an absence until you come and see me at the end of class to explain your late arrival. Handing in assignments late will lower your grade. Examinations will not be rescheduled for any reasons. ASSESSMENT Your grade will be calculated to reflect your class participation and attendance, a presentation, draft and Final paper. Participation Oral Presentation Mid TERM EXAM Final EXAM 10% 30% 30% 30% The instructor will use the following specific criteria when calculating your class participation grade: Criteria for Assessing Class Participation Grade You make major and original contributions that spark discussion, offering both critical and analytical comments clearly based on readings and research and displaying a working knowledge of theoretical issues. A+ 97-100 You make significant contributions that demonstrate insight as well as knowledge of required readings and independent research. A-/A 90-96.9 You make useful contributions and participate voluntarily, which are usually based upon some reflection and familiarity with required readings. B/B+ 84-89.9 You make voluntarily but infrequent comments that generally reiterate the basic points of the required readings. C+/B77-83.9 You make limited comments only when prompted and do not initiate debate or show a clear awareness of the importance of the readings. C 74-76.9 You very rarely make comments and resist engagement with the subject, attending class having manifestly done little if any preparation. D+/C67-73.9 You are unable to make useful comments and contributions, being occasionally absent from, generally passive in, and unprepared for class. D/D60-66.9 You make irrelevant and tangential comments disruptive to class discussion, a result of frequent absence and complete un-preparedness. F Below 60 Midterm and Final Exams (30% each): The examinations will comprise: slide identifications – to test your visual recall of High Renaissance Artists works. slide comparisons – to gauge your ability to identify the function and styles of individual works; to gauge your ability to discern the material condition and quality of an artwork; to address your ability to apply the correct and expressive vocabulary employed by those engaged in art historical analysis and essay question terms – to expand your technical vocabulary in art history Oral Presentation (30%): THIS IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT part of your assessment IT COVERS 30% OF YOUR GRADE! The presentation is given on site in front of an assigned artwork (see topics below). We will focus on artists, covered in the course, in context with our class program. Please prepare a class handout and send it to my email account: [email protected] and post it for your class mates. You can use bullet points. The information you provide will be an important help for all to prepare the Final Exam. The more notes you make during class - the better. How long should the oral presentation be? About 15 minutes. Make questions and expect answers! Fun facts (but not only) and informative observations as well as a good knowledge of the artist’s life will help (you are expected to read the chapter on the artist in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives. Midterm and Final Exams (30% each): The examinations will comprise: slide identifications – to test your visual recall of Renaissance Artists works. slide comparisons – to gauge your ability to identify the function and styles of individual works; to gauge your ability to discern the material condition and quality of an artwork; to address your ability to apply the correct and expressive vocabulary employed by those engaged in art historical analysis and essay question terms – to expand your technical vocabulary in art history questions – to check the reading assignments. Class Participation (10%): This grade will be calculated to reflect your participation in class discussions, your capacity to introduce ideas and thoughts dealing with the texts, your ability use language effectively, and to present your analysis in intellectual, constructive argumentation. When determining your class participation grade, traditional criteria such as material preparation, completed reading before class, and collaborative group work are all evaluated. But it is the active, meaningful and informed verbal and written contribution that you make that is most important to your overall participation grade. Indeed, willingness to share views in classroom discussions and the insightfulness of your comments and questions about assigned readings will all be taken into account when evaluating your participation. Additionally, it is important to demonstrate a positive and supportive attitude to the instructor and your classmates, and give full attention to class activities (i.e., cell-phones off, laptop for notes only, not sleeping or distracted, etc.). Whereas attendance and punctuality are expected and will not count positively towards the grade, laxity in these areas will have a negative effect. REQUIRED TEXT BOOK: you will receive chapters from different books and personal Notes. FURTHER READING E.Welch Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500 Oxford University Press C.Avery Florentine Renaissance Sculpture John Murray, Chaps.1-7 R.Olson Italian Renaissance Sculpture Chaps. 1-6 F. Ames-Lewis (ed.) The Early Medici and their artists, Birbeck College. P.Murray The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Thames & Hudson, Chaps.2-4 K.Clark The Nude , Penguin, (not exclusively concerned with the Renaissance but very useful for an important Renaissance theme). Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists, Penguin, vol.1 J.Hall Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, Harper & Row. Essential for those unfamiliar with religious subject matter (both Old and New Testaments) constitutes most of the subject matter of Early Renaissance art. (also useful for mythological subject matter). SCHEDULE: 1.TUESDAY, JANUARY 12TH 2PM – 5PM Location – Meeting Place San Miniato al Monte SIRSA Campus 2. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16TH 8AM – 5PM Fieldtrip to Siena and San Gimignano TRAINSTATION AT 8.00AM 3. MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT Introduction in the class material Reading: indicated in class Location – Meeting Place Campus 4. MONDAY, JANUARY 25TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT On site visits: San Giovanni, Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral Museum OPA and Santa Reparata Location - – Meeting Place Piazza San Giovanni, Baptistery, South Door SATURDAY, JANUARY 30TH - SUNDAY 31ST Time MILAN TRIP 5.MONDAY, February 1ST Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT Santa Croce & Santa Trinità Location - – Meeting Place Piazza Santa Trinità 0. MONDAY, February 8TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: No class No class Location – Meeting Place None 6. MONDAY, February 15TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT Santa Maria Novella Location -– Meeting Place Santa Maria Novella 7.MONDAY, February 22ND Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT Bargello & Brancacci Chapel Location – Meeting Place Bargello 8. MONDAY, February 29TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: LECTURE ON SIGHT San Marco, San Apollonia Location -– Meeting Place Museum of San Marco 9. MONDAY, March 7TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: MID TERM Mid Term Exam Location – Meeting Place Campus 0. MONDAY, March 14TH – 19TH Time SPRING BREAK 10. MONDAY, March 21ST Time 1pm-4pm Activity: EARLY RENAISSANCE FLORENCE Palazzo Medici Riccardi & Cenacles & Or San Michele Location – Meeting Place Medici Riccardi 0. MONDAY, March 28TH Time Activity: PASQUETTA – NO CLASS - EASTER 11. MONDAY, April 4TH Time 8:30 Activity: PRATO LECTURE ON SIGHT PRATO Location – Meeting Place Train station 12. MONDAY, April 11TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: Medici and Michelangelo Medici Chapel (New Sacristy) +Laurentian Library + Casa Buonarotti Location – Meeting Place Meet at the Laurentian Library/ San Lorenzo 13. SATURDAY, APRIL 16TH Time Activity: AREZZO-MONTERCHI- CITTA DI CASTELLO 8: 30 AREZZO: PIERO TRAIL Location- – Meeting Place Train station 14. MONDAY, April 18TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: ARCHITECTURE, CONCENTRATE ON BRUNELLESCHI Church San Lorenzo and the Ospedale degli Innocenti Location – Meeting Place Ospedale degli Innocenti 15. MONDAY, April 28TH Time 1pm-4pm Activity: Final Exam PRESENTATION TOPICS: Location- – Meeting Place Pandolfini Campus TORNABUONI CHAPEL STROZZI DI MONTOVA CHAPEL STROZZI CHAPEL, SPANISH CHAPEL TRINITY AND PERSPETIVE THE SCULPTURE CYCLE OF ORSANMICHELE THE BRANCACCI CHAPEL CAPPELLA DEI MAGI, BENOZZO GOZZOLI CHOSEN FRESCOS IN THE DORMITORY OF SAN MARCO, FRA ANGELICO THE LAST SUPPER, GHIRLANDAIO THE LAST SUPPER DI ANDREA DEL CASTAGNA HOSPITAL OF THE INNOCENCE THE DOME SAN LORENZO AND THE OLD SACRISTY MICHELANGELO’S LIBRARY AND VESTIBULE MAIN CHAPEL IN ST.STEPFAN, PRATO, FILIPPO LIPPI NEW SACRISTY, MICHELANGELO, SAN LORENZO DAVID, MICHELANGELO, ACCADEMY THE PRISONERS, MICHELANGELO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMAN, GIAMBOLOGNA PALAZZO VECCHIO, PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, PITTI Study Projects: The Volunteer Project: The Volunteer Program (VP) assessment consists of three parts: 1 Part: Being a Volunteer: each of you will collaborate with the Florentine organization Ars ed Fides, a volunteer program that promotes interaction between Florentine specialists in art and you as a foreign student in Florence, and which provides volunteers the opportunity to study Renaissance monuments on site. If you are interested I will take you there the first class and introduce you. You will choose a church (San Lorenzo, Santo Sprito, Santa Maria del Fiore, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella) or museum (Palazzo Vecchio, Museo del Opera del Duomo) and it will be your work to study in order to give a guided tour once a week to ordinary tourists. In this way you would study at least one monument here in Florence in depth. 1. Part: Presentation: At a certain point you can do the same in class or on site. We will focus on (by me indicated) artists and bring their work in connection with our class program. 2. Part: Final Report: The purpose of writing a Final report is to communicate clearly what you have learned through the Volunteer Project, and to demonstrate the ability to critically analyze a work of art through consideration of its formal characteristics and the social context of its genesis. Your paper should reveal mastery of the facts and interpretations found in readings, lectures, discussions, and onsite studies. It will also demonstrate a comfortable command of the course material and is characterized by your independent evaluation and critical consideration of that material. The Fresco Project: You can if you want participate a fresco class session. An expert will introduce to you the technique of fresco making. Cost of this activity which last 3 hours is 20 Euro per student. Following this experience, study a fresco cycle of your choice. Examine the present situation of the Chosen work: had it been restored? I will arrange a visit in the office of the Pietre Dure where you can talk personally to restorers. We talk about this project together and set up a check list. Write an essay on the subject matter (2500 words)