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.