SCHEDULE WEEK 2

Monday • April 5, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - The Early Renaissance Chapel: Masolino to Filippino Lippi

Meet: 9AM, inside the Portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Presentations:

Filippino Lippi’s Carafa Chapel in S. Maria sopra Minerva - Kit

Masolini’s Branda Chapel in San Clemente - Meg

Reading:

• Blue Guide, 347-53, 263-66;
• Perri Lee Roberts, Masolino da Panicale, Oxford, 1993, 85-123 (focus 100-123);
• Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 103-8 (86-102 recommended);
• Gail Geiger, “Filippino Lippi’s Carafa “Annunciation”: Theology, Artistic Conventions, and Patronage,” in Art Bulletin 63 (March 1981): 62-75.

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Tuesday • April 6, 2010

Topic: Art H 397 - Daytrip – Etruscan Places: Cervetri, Tarquinia, and the City of the Dead

Meet: 8:15AM SHARP, inside the Portone, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Be sure to bring warm clothing/umbrellas as we will be outside all day.

Reading:

• Mario Torelli, “History: Land and People,” in Etruscan Life and Afterlife, ed. Larissa Bonfante, Detroit, 1986, 46-65 (recommended);
• Torelli, “Funera Tusca: Reality and Representation in Archaic Tarquinian Painting,” in The Art of Ancient Spectacle, 147-162;
• Vedia Izzet, “Engraving the Boundaries: Exploring Space and Surface in Etruscan Funerary Architecture,” in Approaches to the Study of Ritual: Italy and the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. John B. Wilkins, London, 1996, 55-72.

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Wednesday • April 7, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - New Art at Old St. Peter's

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

Reading:

• William Wallace, “Michelangelo’s Rome Pietà: Altarpiece or grave memorial?” in Verocchio and Late Quattrocento Italian Sculpture, ed. Stephen Bule, Florence, 1992, 243-55;
• Alexander Nagel, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art, New York and Cambridge, 2000, 25-43;
• Stephen Campbell, The Cabinet of Eros, New Haven and London, 2004, 13-19.

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Thursday • April 8, 2010

No class