Art 391, Italian Architecture: Renaissance to Rococo
Syllabus
INTRODUCTION
1. Rediscovery
of the Antique; Beauty and Progress
Read Plinia’s Secret History of Art
on classicism, classical beauty, linear perspective
Vitruvius, De Architetura (late C1 BC) and Roman architecture;
Brunelleschi in Rome, c.1402 and later
Aquinas, Summa Theologica, c.1245; Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria,
1443-52; Ghiberti, Comentarii, c.1447-55; Brunelleschi and perspective
PART I: CHURCHES
The Central Plan
2. Quiz
1 (classicism, classical beauty, linear perspective)
Early Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Old
Sacristy, S Lorenzo, Florence, 1421-28; Pazzi Chapel, Sta Croce, Florence,
c.1433-36; Sta Maria degli Angeli, Florence, 1434; Alberti, S Sebastiano,
Mantua, 1460
High Renaissance: Leonardo,
Studies, c.1490; Bramante, Tempietto, S Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502-11, St
Peter's, Rome, 1506-14
3. Mannerism: Michelangelo, New Sacristy, S
Lorenzo, Florence, 1519 ff; St Peter's, Rome, 1547-64; (Serlio, Architettura,
vol 1, 1542, vol 5, 1551); Vignola, S Andrea in via Flaminia, Rome, 1544, S
Anna dei Palafrenieri, Rome, 1572/3 ff
4. Baroque: Longhena, Sta Maria della Salute,
Venice, 1631-87; Pietro da Cortona, SS Martina e Luca, Rome, 1635-50;
Borromini, S Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1638, S Ivo della Sapienza,
Rome, 1642-50
5. Bernini,
S Andrea al Quirinale, Rome, 1658-70; Guarini, S Lorenzo, Turin, 1666-87,
Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, 1667-94
Rococo: Juvarra, Monastic Church at
Superga, nr Turin, 1717-31; Sardi, Sta Maria del Rosario, Marino, 1720
6. Quiz
2 and Discussion Day
The Long Plan and its Façade
7. Early Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Sto
Spirito, Florence, 1434-36; Alberti, Tempio Malatestiana (S Francesco), Rimini,
1450, Sta Maria Novella, façade, Florence, 1456-70, S Andrea Mantua, 1470
Mannerism: Palladio, S Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1566 ff; Vignola, Il Gesù church
and projected façade, Rome, 1568 ff; Giacomo della Porta, Il Gesù façade, Rome,
1573 ff
Baroque: Maderno, Sta Susanna, façade, Rome, 1597-1603
8. Mannerism: Michelangelo, Project for façade
of S Lorenzo, Florence, 1517; Raphael, St Peter's (long plan), Rome, 1514 ff
Baroque: Maderno, St Peter's, nave
and façade, Rome, 1636-12; Pietro da Cortona, Sta Maria della Pace, façade,
Rome, 1656-57, Guarini, Project for unidentified or ideal church, Architettura
civile, c.1670
Rococo: Massari, Chiesa dei Gesuate, Venice, 1726-43; Galilei, S Giovanni
Laterano, façade, Rome, 1732-36; Fuga, Sta Maria Maggiore, façade, Rome,
1741-43; Gregorini and Passalacqua, Sta Croce in Gerusalemme, façade, Rome,
1741-44
Oratories
9. Baroque: Borromini, S Philippo Neri, Rome,
1637-43
Rococo: Passalacqua, SS Annunziata,
Rome, 1744-6
Linear Perspective
10. Early Renaissance: Bramante, Sta Maria
Presso S Satiro, false choir, Milan, 1470s ff
High Renaissance: Michelangelo,
Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Rome, 1508-10 Mannerism:
Michelangelo Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel altar wall, Vatican, Rome, 1536-41;
Correggio, Dome, S Giovanni Evangelista, Parma, 1520-24, Dome, Parma Cathedral,
1526-30
Baroque: Lanfranco, Dome, S Andrea
della Valle, Rome, 1625-27; Bernini, Cornaro Chapel, Sta Maria della Vittoria,
Rome, 1645-52; Baciccio, Vault, Il Gesù, Rome, 1676-79; Pozzo, Vault, S
Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94
Rococo: Tiepolo, Translation of the Holy House, church of the Scalzi, Venice,
1744, Institution of the Rosary, church of the Gesuate, Venice
11. Quiz
3 and Discussion Day
PART II: TOWN PLANNING
The Town and its Piazzas
12. Renaissance: (Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria,
1443-52); (Filarete, Sforzinda, treatise, Milan, 1465); Sansovino, Piazza and
Piazzetta, Venice, 1529; (Laurana, Ideal City, Urbino, c.1450-75); (Perugino,
Giving the keys to St Peter, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, 1481)
Mannerism: Michelangelo,
Campidoglio, Rome, 1538-64
Baroque: Bernini, St Peter's
Piazza, Rome, 1656; Fontana, Project for St Peter's Piazza, Rome, 1694
Rococo: Raguzzini, Piazza di S
Ignazio, 1727
Palaces
13. Renaissance: Michelozzo, Palazzo Medici,
Florence, 1444; Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, c.1455-60; Bramante, House
of Raphael (Palazzo Caprini), Rome, c.1512; (Venice) Palazzo Corner-Spinelli,
Venice, c.1480
Mannerism: Romano, Palazzo
Maccarani, Rome, c.1520, Giulio's own house, Mantua, c.1540; Sanmichele,
Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona, c.1530; Peruzzi, Palazzo Massimo delle Colonne,
Rome, 1532 ff; Antonio da Sangallo & Michelangelo, Palazzo Farnese, Rome,
1541 ff;
14. Baroque: Bernini, Palazzo Chigi-Odescalchi,
Rome, 1664, Projects for the Louvre, 1664-66; Guarini, Palazzo Carignano,
Turin, 1679
Rococo: Juvarra, Palazzo Madama,
Turin, 1718-21; Valvassori, Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Rome, 1730-35; Fuga,
Palazzo Cenci-Bolognetti, Rome, c.1745, Palazzo della Consulta, Rome, 1732-7;
Bolli, Palazzo Litta, façade, Milan, 1745
SPRING BREAK
Virtual Environments
15. Renaissance (landscape and gardens):
Mantegna, Camera Picta, Ducal Palace, Urbino, 1465-74
Baroque (apotheosis): Pietro da
Cortona, Triumph of the Barberini, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1633-39; Maratta,
Triumph of Clemency, Palazzo Altieri, Rome, 1670s; Giordano, Apotheosis of the
Medici Dynasty, Palazzo Medici-Ricardi, Florence, 1682-83
Civic Buildings
16. Renaissance: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger,
La Zecca (Papal Mint), Rome, c.1525
Mannerism: Sansovino, La Zecca
(Ducal Mint), Venice, 1537 ff, Library, Venice, 1537 ff; Palladio, The
Basilica, Vicenza, 1549
Rococo: de Sanctis, Spanish Stairs,
Rome, 1723-5; Salvi, Trevi Fountain, Rome, 1732-62
17. Quiz
4 and Discussion Day
PART III: THE HUMANIST VILLA
Background
18. Ovid,
Fasti, 2-8 AD; Vergil, Eclogues, 42-37 BC; Pliny, Naturalis Historia, book 35,
79AD; Pompeiian wall paintings, 79 AD (excavations began 1748); Poussin,
Landscape with the Burial of Phocion, 1648; Marsilio Ficino and the Platonic
"Academy", Florence, c.1462-99
The Farmhouse
19a. Renaissance:
Guiliano da Sangallo, Villa Poggio a Caiano, 1480s
Mannerism: Sansovino, Villa
Garzone, Pontecasale, c.1540; Palladio, Villa Maser, c.1560
Rococo: (Preti, Villa Pisani, Stra,
1725-56)
The Farmhouse's Virtual Environment
(the walls)
19b. Mannerism: Veronese,
Villa Maser, 1560s
Baroque: Domenichino, Villa
Androbrandini, Frascati, 1616-18
Rococo: Tiepolo, Villa Valmarana,
Vicenza, 1757
The Grandiose
20. High Renaissance: Bramante, Cortile
Belvedere, Vatican, Rome, 1505
Mannerism: Raphael, Villa Madama,
Rome, c.1516 ; Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua, 1525; Vignola, Villa Giulia,
Rome, 1551; Ligorio, Villa d'Este, Rome, c.1565-72
Rococo: Juvarra, Royal Hunting
Palace, Stupingi, 1729-33
The Suburbana
21. Mannerism: Peruzzi, Villa Farnesina, Rome,
1509-11; Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, c.1550; Ligorio, Casino di Pio IV,
Vatican Gardens, Rome, 1559
Baroque: Pietro da Cortona, Villa
Pigneto, Rome, 1629
Rococo: Marchionni, Villa Albani,
Rome, 1748-62
The Suburbana's Virtual Environment
(the ceiling)
22. Renaissance: Peruzzi, Sala delle
Prospettive, Villa Farnesina, 1509-11
Mannerism: Raphael, Sala di Psiche,
Villa Farnesina, 1518-19
Baroque: Reni, Casino Rospigliosi,
Rome, 1613-14; Guercino, Casino Ludovisi, Rome, 1621; Lanfranco, Villa
Borghese, 1624-25
23. Quiz
5 and Discussion Day
24-6. Discussion Days