HISTORY
OF ITALIAN ART
Are you fascinated by Italy's magnificent
cultural works? Our course on the History of Italian Art will enable
you to understand its history and social background. The course is designed
to show, by means of slides and guided visits, the development of art
in Italy in relation to the rest of Europe and offers you an introduction
to the most important artistic styles (Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance,
Baroque). You will become acquainted with the most important works of
artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo while
learning about the most significant historical and social events that
accompanied them.
The program foresees the following subjects:
- Introduction:
- General and historical lists;
- The Romanesque period.
- The XIII century:
- Architecture - passage of the French Gothic
in Italy;
- The "Italian" Gothic;
- The sculpture: from Nicola Pisano
to Arnolfo di Cambio.
- The architectural and urban transformation between the XIII
and the XIV century
- Florence and Siena in the XIV century:
- Cimabue and Duccio;
- Giotto;
- Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers;
- Florence
in the second half of the century;
- Traces of
international Gothic.
- Brunelleschi and the revolution of perspective:
- The three fathers of the Italian Renaissance:
Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio
- The first Renaissance:
- Florence in the first half of the XV century
- Florence in the second half of the XV century:
- The cultural environment of Lorenzo il Magnifico
and Botticelli
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Rome, artistic capital:
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