Art 296, Winter Interim 1998
Itinerary and Syllabus
Required texts:
(S)
W Stoddard, Art and Architecture in Medieval France, Icon Editions, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1972
(CP)
Course packet
PROPOSED ITINERARY
(* denotes one day's program, to be replaced nearer the time by specific dates)
Stop at PARIS (5/6 nights)
St Denis (S: 101-11, 289-92 on St Denis, 167-171 on Panofsky; CP on Dionysus, Suger)
Joint Presentation on façade
Presentation on choir
Presentation on nave
recommended afterwards: Père Lachaise cemetry, or Sacre Coeur
Day-trip to
Chartres
(S: 153-64, 253-75 on sculpture, 173-89 on architecture; CP on vault dynamics, Emperor Frederick II)
Local guide's presentation is highly regarded
Joint presentation on royal portal
Joint presentation on transept sculpture and stained glass
Return via Versailles
Notre Dame
(S: 135-45; CP on University of Paris)
Presentation on interior
Joint presentation on transepts
Joint presentation on
façade
Ste Chapelle (S: 292-5; CP on Aquinas)
Presentation on upper church
Joint presentation on concept of upper and lower church
recommended afterwards: Louvre exploration; Musée d'Orsay
Cluny Museum (CP on Petrarch and Hortus Delicatio)
Presentation on Gothic tapestry landscapes
recommended afterwards: Luxembourg Gardens, Eiffel Tower, or Pantheon, Sorbonne, Val de Grace
Louvre (CP on Pliny, Vergil, Ovid, Panofsky, de Piles, Poussin on beauty and concept)
Presentation on Roman landscape, Judgement of Paris, Huntsmen sacrificing (mosaics)
Presentation on Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds II, Echo and Narcissus
Presentation on Poussin's Christ Healing the Blind, Orpheus and Euridice
Presentation on Titian and Giorgione's Fête Champêtre
recommended afterwards:
Tuileries
, Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe
other recommendations: Rodin Museum, Picasso Museum
To ORLÉANS (55 miles: 1'50") (stop)
Stop at ORLEANS (2 nights)
Orléans cathedral (Re-read CP on Aquinas, Panofsky)
Joint Presentation on High Gothic
Hôtel de Ville (explore)
To St Germigny de Près (15 miles: 30") (CP on Libri Carolini, Theodulf)
Presentation on Theodulf's Oratory
To St Benoit sur Loire (3 miles: 5")
Presentation on Fleury
Return to Orleans (18 miles: 35")
To BOURGES (50 miles: 1'45") (stop)
Stop at BOURGES (2 nights)
Cathedral
, pm (S: 223-33; re-read 173-89 on Chartres; CP on vault dynamics)
Presentation
Joint Presentation on comparison with Chartres cathedral
House of Jacques Coeur (S: 328-330)
Musée Cujas (CP on Roger de Piles, Boucher on painting)
Presentation on Boucher
Romanesque church of St Ursin with carved tympanum, am
Joint Presentation on church
Joint Presentation on tympanum
To AUTUN via Nevers (85 miles: 2'45") (stop)
Stop at AUTUN (4 nights)
Roman theater, aqueduct and city gates (CP on Vitruvius)
Presentation on Roman theater
Joint Presentation on Roman city gate (Porte d'Arroux)
free exploration pm (to recover)
Journey to Vezelay via Avallon (36 miles: 1'15") (S: 52-3, 58)
Joint presentation on Roman fortifications
to Vezelay (9 miles: 20") (S: 39-52 on Cluny cluster; 52 on nave, 69-70 on tympana, 113-19 on choir)
Presentation on tympana
Presentation on nave
Joint Presentation on choir
return same route stopping at Saulieu (21 miles: 45")
Joint Presentation on St Andoche, Cluniac derivative of Vezelay
to Autun (21 miles: 45")
Journey to Cluny (40 miles: 1'20") (S: 39-47; 58 on sacred numbers; 167-71 on Panofsky)
Presentation
to Berzé (minutes away) (S: 80-85)
Presentation
return via Paray (25 miles: 45" + 40 miles: 1'20")
Presentation
Joint Presentation on reconstruction of Cluny III
Autun cathedral, am (S: 42-52)
Presentation on tympanum
Presentation on interior
pm free
Journey to TOURNUS (35 miles: 1') (S: 53-56, 68; CP on vault dynamics)
Presentation on the cathedral's vaulting systems
Joint Presentation on Romanesque rejection of these systems
Visit to International Centre of Romanesque Studies
Continue to LYON (50 miles: 1'40") (stop)
Stop at
LYON
(2 nights)
Gothic cathedral, am
Joint presentation
Musée des Beaux Arts, pm
Presentation on Poussin's Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
Out of Lyons, am, to VIENNE (25 miles: 45")
Presentation on the Gothic cathedral
Joint presentation on Roman and Gothic grave slabs
on to ORANGE (100 miles: 3'20"), pm (stop)
Stop at
ORANGE
(2 nights) (CP: on Vitruvius)
Roman remains
Presentation on Roman theater
Presentation on Triumphal Arch
Joint Presentation on Triumphal Arches and cathedral façla;ade design
To
NIMES
(25 miles: 45")
Joint Presentation on the Pont du Gard,
Visit the Maison Carée
on to AVIGNON (25 miles: 45") (stop)
Stop at
AVIGNON
(1 night)
Palace des Papes
Presentation on the landscape frescoes
Joint Presentation on the late Romanesque cathedral
on to
ARLES
(13 miles: 20") (stop)
Stop at
ARLES
(2 nights)
,a href="http://www.beyond.fr/villages/arlesmuseums.html">Roman remains, am
Presentation on
Roman arena
Presentation on Roman theatre
Visit the Necropolis
Romanesque church of St Trophime, pm (S: 25, 61, 65)
Presentation on portal and sculpture
Presentation on cloister
To ST GILLES (8 miles: 15") (S: 73-75)
Presentation on St Gilles du Gard
Visit Romanesque house
OVERNIGHT TRAIN TO VENICE
Stop at VENICE (6 nights)
St Marks, Library and Mint; Doge's palace
Presentation on St Mark's (CP: on vault dynamics, Photius on Byzantine churches)
Presentation on Library and Mint (CP: on local Roman remains, Serlio, Palladio)
Visit to Doge's palace
recommended afterwards: S Zaccariah & Giovanni Bellini's altarpiece; Colleoni Monument
Il Redentore
Presentation on interior
Presentation on façade
recommended for completion: S Giorgio Maggiore
The Accademia
Presentation on Giorgione's Tempestà
Sta Maria delle Salute
Presentation
recommended: Sta Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, great altarpieces by Titian and Giovanni Bellini
Day trip to Vicenza
Joint presentation on Roman remains
Presentation on Palladio's "Basilica"
Presentation on Palladio's
Villa Rotonda
Joint Presentation on interior decoration of Villa Rotonda
return to Venice, via Padua (Giotto's Arena chapel)
Day trip to Villa Maser
Presentation on Villa Maser
Presentation on Veronese's decoration of Villa Maser
Joint presentation/recap on Roman villas
SS Giovanni e Paolo
Titian's Death of St Peter Martyr