ART APPRECIATION
The Renaissance in Florence, Rome and Venice: An Introduction
AUTUMN AN131
Saturday
Tutors: Philip Cottrell and Karina O'Neill
This course serves as an introduction to the art, architecture and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance (1300-1600) - one of the most exciting and fertile periods in the history of Western art. It was at this time that artists began to throw off the workaday expectations of their craft to emerge not merely as craftsmen, but as intellectuals and theorists. As part of a wider cultural movement which placed a renewed emphasis on the individual and the materialist values of the ancient world, artists such as Michelangleo, Leonardo da Vinci and Titian developed their own clearly defined creative personalities, and a heroic sense of their own genius.
Renaissance writers and artists, prominent among them the painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari increasingly understood their age in terms of a revival of the artistic fortunes of Italy centred around specific cultural centres, chiefly Florence, Rome and Venice. Students will have the opportunity to engage with each city's distinct visual culture and will be guided in an appreciation and understanding of cultural circumstances, style and patronage. We shall also refer to other important centres of production such as Padua, Siena and the Italian courts.
Discussion is encouraged and no previous knowledge of the History of Art is required.
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| 10 Saturdays |
Sep 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, Nov 3, 10, 17, 24, Dec 1, 8 (No class Oct 27) |
10.30am - 12.30pm |
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FEE: €190 |
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Tutor Details:
Philip Cottrell is a lecturer at the School of Art History University College Dublin. He publishes on a wide range of topics, but particularly painting in Renaissance Venice.
Karina O’ Neill (MA) is the Marketing Manager in the UCD College of Engineering & Architecture. A freelance art historian, she has worked at the National Gallery of Ireland and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and for the Irish Georgian Society. She is co-editor of ‘Studies in the Gothic Revival’, Four Courts Press, 2008 and is a member of the Irish Association of Art Historians.
List of key/core topics to be covered:
- Giotto and Duccio and 14th c art in Padua and Siena
- Renaissance painting techniques
- Florentine Sculpture and Painting
- Florentine Architecture
- The Art of the Courts
- Roman Architecture & Papal patronage
- Venetian Painting and Architecture
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone with an interest in the history and art of the Italian renaissance, but no prior knowledge is required.
Reading List:
The following is a selection of recommended texts for those interested in reading further around the course content. We advise that you do not buy books in advance of the course as your tutor will discuss the list and suggest the most relevant reading for particular interests.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
General survey texts:
- J.T.,Paoletti, & G. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, 2nd edition, 2001, ISBN: 013091830X
- F. Hartt, Italian Renaissance Art, various editions, ISBN: 0133920356.
- P. Murry, The Art of the Renaissance, Thames & Hudson, ISBN: 0500180237. Buy it together with P & L, Murray, The High Renaissance and Mannerism, various editions, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0195199901.
Other more specialist texts:
- M. Baxandall, Painting & Experience in 15th C. Italy, Oxford 1972.
- B. Kempers, Painting, Power & Patronage – The Rise of the Professional Artist in the Italian Renaissance, London, 1992.
- A. Blunt, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600, Oxford, 1962.
- A.Cole, Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts, London 1995.
- J. Hall, A Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, London, 1979.
- L. Heydenreich & W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1400-1600, London 1974.
- S. J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600, Harmondsworth, 1979.
- P. Humfrey, Painting in Renaissance Venice, Yale, 1995.
- R. J. M, Olson, Italian Renaissance Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, 1992.
- E. Welch, Art & Society in Italy 1350-1500, Oxford, 1977.
Renaissance sources:
- L. Alberti, Della Pittura (On Painting - English translation), Yale, 1966.
- C. Cennini, The book of the art of Cennino Cennini : a contemporary practical treatise on quattrocento painting - Translated from the Italian, with notes on mediaeval art methods, by Christiana J. Herringham.
- G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, ed. W. Gaunt, NY, 1963, 4 vols [Originally published in 2 editions in 1550 and 1568]. Various, good abbreviated editions are available published by Penguin and Oxford University Press.
New to the History of Art?
- E. Gombrich, The Story of Art, Phaidon, ISBN: 0714832472
