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.