SCHEDULE WEEK 10

Florence: Friday • May 28, 2010 - Monday • May 31, 2010

Hotel information: Hotel Giada in Florence: http://www.hotelgiada.it/

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Venice: Monday • May 31, 2010 - Thursday • June 3, 2010

Hotel information: Hotel Paganelli in Venice: http://www.hotelpaganelli.com/

SCHEDULE WEEK 9

Monday • May 24, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - The Baroque Ceiling

Meet: 9AM on the steps of the Gesù. After the Gesù, we will walk to Sant' Ignazio together.

Presentations:

Sant' Ignazio ceiling - John

Reading:

Blue Guide, 291-93, 152-54, 220-25;

Robert Enggass, “Bernini, Gaulli, and the Frescoes of the Gesù,” in Art Bulletin 39 (December, 1957): 303-305;

Gauvin Bailey, “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting under the Jesuits and its Legacy throughout Catholic Europe, 1565-1773,” in Bailey and John O’Malley, S.J., eds., The Jesuits and the Arts 1540-1773, Philadelphia, 2005, 125-26, 187-98;

John Beldon Scott, “The art of the painter’s scaffold: Pietro da Cortona in the Barberini Salone,” Burlington Magazine 135 (1993): 327-37.

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Tuesday • May 25, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Rome, Capitol Again: from the nineteenth century to Mussolini's EUR

Meet: 9AM inside the portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio. We will walk together to the Largo Argentina to take the #30 bus to EUR. The bus ride will be about a half hour.

Presentations:

EUR - Lucienne

Reading:

Blue Guide, 553-554;

John Agnew, “The Impossible Capital: Monumental Rome under Liberal and Fascist Regimes, 1870-1943,” in Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography 80 (1998): 229-240;

Richard A. Etlin, “The Esposizione Universale of 1942,” in Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890-1940, Cambridge, Ma., 1991, 481-501, 512-515;

Diane Ghirardo, “Architects, Exhibitions, and the Politics of Culture in Fascist Italy,” in Journal of Architectural Education 45 (1992): 67-75.

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Wednesday • May 26, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - final exam

Meet: 9:30 AM in 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

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Thursday • May 27, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - final exam

Meet: 9:30 AM in 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Final Rome Dinner: 8PM, Trattoria Moderna

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Friday • May 28, 2010

Check out of apartments - please see the email sent to the group from Jennifer Wilkin regarding check-out procedures.

Depart Rome for Florence

Meet: 1:15 PM in front of the Nike Town inside the main entrance to Termini. Nike Town is at the very end of the large entrance area. If you walk in the main entrance, it is on your left.

SCHEDULE WEEK 8

Monday • May 17, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - The Basilica of Saint Peter’s: Where Bernini became Bernini

Due: Position paper

Meet: 9:20 AM at the obelisk in the piazza in front of St. Peter's

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 403-17;
• Howard Hibbard, “Bernini in Command,” in Hibbard, Bernini (Harmondsworth, 1965), 68-88;
• Estelle Lingo, “Mochi’s Edge,” Oxford Art Journal 32 (2009): 1-16.

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Tuesday • May 18, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - The Villa Borghese

Meet: 10:45 AM sharp at the Villa Borghese, in front of the gallery - we have a timed entry to the gallery.

You can the 116 minibus to Villa Borghese from the stop in front of the Cancelleria. You should allow approximately 30 minutes by bus.

Presentations:

Bernini's Apollo & Daphne - Dabney

Reading:

• Augenti, 175-80;
• Blue Guide, 181-91;
• Howard Hibbard, Bernini, 23-67;
• Andrea Bolland, “Desiderio and Diletto: Vision, Touch, and the Poetics of Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne,” The Art Bulletin 82 (2000): 309-30.

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Wednesday • May 19, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel and Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Borromini’s S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Meet: 9AM in front of Santa Maria della Vittoria

• From the Campo area, you can take the 64 or the 40 and get off at Piazza della Repubblica.
• From Trastevere you can take the H from Viale Trastevere and get off at Piazza della Repubblica.

From Piazza della Repubblica, take Via V.E. Orlando to Via XX Settembre. The church is on the right on the corner of these two streets.

Presentations:

Cornaro Chapel - Lori

Sant' Andrea al Quirinale - Theresa

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - Katie

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 235, 215-19;
• Michael J. Call, “Boxing Teresa: The Counter-Reformation and Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel,” in Woman’s Art Journal 18 (Spring-Summer 1997): 34-39;
• Joseph Connors, “Bernini’s Sant’Andrea al Quirinale: Payments and Planning,” in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 41 (1982): 15-37.

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Thursday • May 20, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Rome on the Grand Tour

Meet: 9AM at the Trevi Fountation. After the Trevi Fountain, we will continue on foot to the Museo di Roma.

Presentations:

Trevi Fountain - Gina

Reading:

• Augenti, 194-97;
• Blue Guide, 172-77, 209-11;
• Christopher Johns, “The Entrepôt of Europe: Rome in the Eighteenth Century,” in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron, Joseph J. Rishel, et. al., New York and London, 2000, 17-46;
• John Pinto, “A fluid synthesis: Nicola Salvi’s Program for the Trevi Fountain in Rome,” in Struggle for Synthesis: The Total Work of Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Lisbon, 1999, 541-550.

SCHEDULE WEEK 7

Monday • May 10, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci in confronto at Santa Maria del Popolo

Meet: 9AM on the steps of Sant' Agostino. We will walk together to Santa Maria del Popolo.

Presentations:

Cerasi Chapel - Maria

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 159-65;
• Charles Dempsey, “The Carracci Reform of Painting,” in The Age of Correggio and the Carracci, exh. cat. Washington, 1986, 237-54;
• Pamela Jones, “The place of poverty in Seicento Rome: bare feet, humility, and the pilgrimage of life in Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto (ca. 1605-6) in the church of S. Agostino,” (excerpt) in Altarpieces and their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni, Aldershot, 2008, 103-129.

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Tuesday • May 11, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Day trip - Imperial villegiatura, Late Renaissance and Roman: the Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este

Meet: 8:15 AM inside the portone, UWRC Palazzio Pio.

Lunch: plan to bring a bag lunch - weather permitting, we will eat lunch at Hadrian's Villa.

Presentations:

Hadrian's Villa - Denver

Villa d'Este - Kelsey

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 521-34;
• Indra Kagis McEwen, “Hadrian's Rhetoric II: Thesaurus Eloquentiae, the Villa at Tivoli,” RES 25 (Spring 1994): 51-60;
• Claudia Lazzaro, “Tivoli’s Ancient Waters Revived,” in The Italian Renaissance Garden, New Haven and London, 1990, 215-42.

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Wednesday • May 12, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - From the Farnesina to the Galleria Farnese (note: Wednesday and Thursday on the syllabus have been switched)

Meet: 9AM, meet in front of the Portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio - students in the Trastevere apartment may meet at the entrance to the Farnesina at 9:15.

We will walk together back to the Rome Center for a classroom session after our visit to the Farnesina.

Presentations:

Villa Farnesina - Kristin

Reading:

• Augenti, 166-69;
• Ingrid Rowland, “Render unto Caesar the Things which are Caesar’s: Humanism and the Arts in the Patronage of Agostino Chigi,” in Renaissance Quarterly 39 (Winter 1986): 673-94 (excerpt);
• Charles Dempsey, “‘Et nos cedamus amori’: Observations on the Farnese Gallery,” The Art Bulletin, 50 (1968): 363-74.

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Thursday • May 13, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Domenichino and Guido Reni (note: Wednesday and Thursday on the syllabus have been switched)

Meet: 8:20 AM inside the portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio. We will first go to SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini. We will then travel together by city bus to the oratories San Gregorio Magno.

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 340-41;
• Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, 6^th ed., rev. by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu, New Haven, 1999, vol. 1, 46-54;
• Pamela Jones, “Leading pilgrims to paradise: Guido Reni’s Holy Trinity (1625-26) for the church of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti and the care of bodies and souls,” (excerpts) in Altarpieces and their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni, Aldershot, 2008, 261-91, 305-17.

SCHEDULE WEEK 6

Monday • May 3, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Daytrip - Orvieto, Luca Signorelli to Francesco Mochi

Meet: 7:45 AM SHARP, inside the portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Reading:

• Sara Nair James, Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto, Aldershot, 2003 , 10-21, 130-46;
• Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, 6^th ed., rev. by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu, New Haven, 1999, vol. 1, 89-95;
• Marietta Cambareri, “Francesco Mochi’s Annunciation Group for Orvieto Cathedral,” The Sculpture Journal 6 (2001): 1-9.

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Tuesday • May 4, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Raphael, Michelangelo, and Bramante in the New Rome of Pope Julius II - Preparation session for Vatican trip

Meet: 9AM, 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Reading:

• Augenti, 123-39;
• John O’Malley, “The Theology behind Michelangelo’s Ceiling,” in The Sistine Chapel. The Art, the History, and the Restoration, 92-148;
• Ingrid Rowland, “The Vatican Stanze,” in The Cambridge Companion to Raphael, ed. Marcia Hall, New York and Cambridge, 2005, 95-114.

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Wednesday • May 5, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Vatican Museums, with emphasis on the Stanze and the Sistine, the Vatican Pinacoteca, with emphasis on Raphael’s altarpieces, the Transfiguration and Madonna di Foligno, and the Belvedere courtyard (Bramante’s architecture and the collecting of antiquities)

Meet: 9:30 AM in the line for the Vatican Museums.

Look for the group in the line for the entrance to the Vatican Museums on Viale Vaticano. From St. Peter's square, go right and follow the Vatican walls until you meet the line for the museum and find the group.

If you are at all unsure about these directions, be sure to bring your map.

Special Instructions:

• STUDENTS 25 AND YOUNGER: please bring either your international student identification card OR UW Husky card and photo ID stating your age (passport or license).

Reading:

• Augenti, 158-59;
• Jodi Cranston, “Tropes of Revelation in Raphael’s Transfiguration,” in Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 1-25;
• Hans Henrik Brummer, “On the Julian program of the Cortile delle Statue in the Vatican Belvedere,” in Il Cortile delle Statue: der Statuenhof des Belvedere im Vatikan, ed. Matthias Winner, Mainz, 1998, 67-76.

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Thursday • May 6, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Caravaggio, Scuderie del Quirinale - group reservation for 2PM

Meet:

• 9AM in 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio
• 1:45 PM in Piazza del Quirinale next to the Horse-tamers sculptures. You can approach it either from Via Nazionale or by taking the steps on Via della Dataria near the Trevi Fountain. Plan your route using a map.

Reading:

• Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, 6^th ed., rev. by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu, New Haven, 1999, vol. 1, 19-26;
• Genevieve Warwick, “Introduction: Caravaggio in History,” in Warwick, ed., Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception, Newark, DE, 2006, 13-22.

SCHEDULE WEEK 5

Monday • April 26, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - The New Orders and the Renewal of Rome: the Gesù and Renovatio at S. Cecilia

Meet: 9AM, in front of the Gesù - Piazza del Gesù

Go past Largo Argentina on Via del Plebiscito. The church will be on your right.

We will travel together to Santa Cecilia in Trastevere after the Gesù.

Presentations:

Gesù architecture - Mara

Gesù interior chapels - Vicki

Santa Cecilia - Lauren

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 290-93, 380-83;
• Howard Hibbard, “Ut picturae sermones: The First Painted Decorations of the Gesù,” in Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution, ed. Rudolf Wittkower and Irma Jaffé, New York, 1972, 29-49;
• Maryvelma Smith O’Neil, “Stefano Maderno’s Saint Cecilia: A Seventeenth Century Roman Sculpture Remeasured,” Antologia di Belle Arti 25-26 (1985): 9-21;
• John Paoletti and Gary Radke, “The Demands of the Council of Trent,” in Paoletti and Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, 3^rd ed., Upper Saddle River, 2005, 513-26.

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Tuesday • April 27, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Midterm

Meet: 9:30 AM, 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

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Wednesday • April 28, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - The Oratorians between Archaism and Art: S. Maria in Vallicella

Meet: 9AM, 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

We will walk together to Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova).

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 294-98;
• Stuart Lingo, Federico Barocci, 1-9, 84-89, 165-77;
• Georgia Wright, “Caravaggio’s Entombment Considered In Situ,” in Art Bulletin 60 (March 1978): 35-42;
• Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence, Chicago, 1984, 484-90 (plus notes and appendix).

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Thursday • April 29, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - The Fifteenth-Century Rebuilding of Rome: Cardinals’ Churches and Palaces (Palazzo Venezia and the church of San Marco, Palazzo della Cancelleria, S. Agostino)

Meet: 9AM, meet in front of the Portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio

We will walk together to the Cancelleria, Palazzo Venezia and Sant' Agostino

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 128-134, 305-06;
• Augenti, 105-121;
• John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Princeton, 1988, 192-206 (“A New Christian Architecture”);
• Ludwig Heydenreich, Architecture in Italy 1400-1500, New Haven and London, 1996 (first publ. 1974), 67-73 (“Palazzi”).

SCHEDULE WEEK 4

Monday - April 19, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Lay Piety and the New Art: Confraternities and Oratories in later Renaissance Rome

Meet: 9AM, 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Reading:

• Barbara Wisch, “The Passion of Christ in the Art, Theater, and Penitential Rituals of the Roman Confraternity of the Gonfalone,” in Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities, Kalamazoo, 1991, 237-62;
• Barbara Wisch, “New Themes for New Rituals: the “Crucifixion” Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome,” in Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl, eds. Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image, Cambridge and New York, 2000, 203-34.

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Tuesday - April 20, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Mosaics of Rome: Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Pudenziana, and Santa Prassede with the San Zeno Chapel

Meet: 9AM in front of Santa Maria Maggiore

We will pass out bus tickets on Monday at the end of class. From the Largo Argentina or Corso Vittorio Emanuelle, take the number 70 bus heading to Giolitti. There is a Santa Maria Maggiore stop. It's a good idea to bring your city maps this day, just in case.

Presentations:

Santa Maria Maggiore - Erin

Santa Pudenziana - Emma

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 245-254;
• Augenti, 72-78;
• Thomas Mathews, “Larger-than-Life,” in The Clash of Gods: a Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, Princeton, 1999, 92-114;
• Peter Brown, review of Mathews in Art Bulletin 77 (Sept. 1995): 499-502; Thomas Mathews, “Reply to Peter Brown,” in Art Bulletin 78 (March 1996): 178;
• Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen, “The Chapel of S. Zeno in S. Prassede: New Aspects of the Iconography,” in Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 15 (1986): 67-86.

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Wednesday - April 21, 2010

Meet: 9AM, 3rd floor classroom, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Midterm exam Art H 497

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Thursday - April 22, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Basilicas of Trastevere: Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santa Cecilia, and the work of Pietro Cavallini

Meet: 9AM at the fountain in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 372-375, 380-383;
• Augenti, 92-103;
• Dale Kinney, “Spolia from the Baths of Caracalla in Sta. Maria in Trastevere,” Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 379-397;
• Paul Hetherington, “The mosaics of Pietro Cavallini in Santa Maria in Trastevere,” in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 33 (1970): 84-106.