Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (Italy)
082:375, Prof. Marder ( [email protected] )
11:30-12:50 Zimmerli, EDR
Preliminary Syllabus:
Jan 19 : Introduction
Jan 23/26: The Dome, Brunelleschi, and Their Legacy
Frommel 13-26
R. Krautheimer, “Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective”
M. Trachtenberg, “Why the Pazzi Chapel is Not by Brunelleschi,”
Jan 30/Feb 2: Alberti, Antiquity, and Vitruvius in the Renaissance
Frommel 31-46
R. Wittkower, “The Centrally Planned Church and the Renaissance” (Alberti)
R. Tavernor, Giovanni Rucellai and His Architectural Ensemble”
Feb 6/9: Early Renaissance Palaces and Streets
Frommel 26-30
G. Clarke, “Creating All’Antica Palaces"
Feb 13/16: Domestic Interiors and Exteriors
M. Ajmar-Wollheim and F. Dennis eds., At Home in the Renaissance
E.B. Rogers, “Humanism and the Landscape”
Feb 20/23: Courts of War and Culture, Commerce and Religion: Mantua,
Urbino, Pienza, Ferrara, Milan, Siena,Venice, and Rome
Frommel 46-50, 60-64, 69-76, 77-78, 87-90
O. Raggio, “The Liberal Arts Studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio,”
H. Millon, “The Architectural Theory of Francesco di Giorgio” Feb 27/Mar 2: High Renaissance Rome and Its Legacy
Frommel 51-56,78-86, 91-97, 99-112, 115-148, 152-154
A. Bruschi, “The Tempietto of S. Pietro in Montorio”
Mar 6/9: St. Peter’s and Michelangelo
Frommel 171-184
J. Ackerman, “The Basilica of St. Peter”
W. Wallace, “Michelangelo CEO”
Mar 20/23: Midterm exam ; Residences north and south, city and country
Frommel 157-170, 201-213
J. Ackerman, “Villas” (of Palladio)
B. Boucher, “The QuattroLibri”
Mar 27/30: Sixtus V and City Planning in the Counter-Reformation
Frommel 185-200
T. Magnuson, “Sixtus V”
T. Marder, “Sixtus V on the Quirinal”
Apr 3/6: Church, Palace, Villa, and Garden in the Baroque
Varriano 3-43
P. Waddy, “Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings”
M. Benes, “The Social Significance of … the Landscape at the Villa Borghese”
Apr 10/13: Baroque Antagonists: Borromini VERSUS Bernini
Varriano 45-105
T. Marder, “Bernini and Borromini on Piazza Navona”
Apr 17/20: Alexander VII’s Urban Transformation of Rome
Varriano 107-124, 125-157 T. Marder, “Politics and Urban Theater in Alexander’s Rome”
Apr 24/27: 18 th -century Rome
Varriano 159-182
May 1: Baroque Naples, Venice, and Piedmont
Varriano 200-243, 261-265, 275-276
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Ajmar-Wollheim and F. Dennis eds. At Home in Renaissance Italy, 2006
Benes, “Landowning and the villa in the social geography of the Roman territory : the location and landscapes of the Villa Pamphilj, 1645-70,” in A. von Hoffman, Form, modernism, and history : essays in honor of Eduard F. Sekler, 1996
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Connors, Borromini and the Roman Oratory, 1979
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Marder, “Bernini and Borromini on Piazza Navona,” lecture 2003.
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Marder, “The Porto di Ripetta in Rome,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 39, 1980, 28-56
Marder, Bernini and the Art of Architecture, 1998
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