Art 267 |
Professor: | Dr. Perette Michelli | |
Class: | Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9.05-10.00
a.m., Flaten Hall Lecture Room |
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Office Hours: | After class and by appointment | |
Required set books: J Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture H Saalman, The Transformation of Buildings and the City in the Renaissance, 1300-1550, Astrion Publishing, Champlain, N.Y., 1996 J Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture, Oxford University Press, 1986 BRING THESE BOOKS TO CLASS! |
Most of the classes will be student-led presentation/discussions ("seminars"), and the first few units of the course will be devoted to some preparatory training. After that, it is a matter of courage, pizzazz (remember that!), and mutual support. Support is best shown by courteous attention to and discussion with the presenter. Discussion will come naturally if you keep up to date with the reading and know the buildings, and if you can produce any interest in why issues of design were so important. Keep in mind the fundamental difference between Roman Catholicism (which was originally universal and is still dominant in Italy) and Protestantism (which is dominant in America). Catholicism presents God to you, it provides you with sacraments that infallibly save your soul, it seeks to control your experience of and access to God - and it is all done in church. Modern Protestantism places the emphasis on individual responsibility for Godly behavior in the world at large, its sacraments are symbolic rather than miraculous, and it leaves your relationship with and perception of God up to you.
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