BLOCK 8, 1999
PROFESSORS EDITH KIRSCH AND RUTH KOLARIK
April 19 9:00 Introduction and Logistics
1:30
The topography and early history of Rome; the Roman Forum,
Roman city planning, Pompeii.
Readings: Michael Grant The Roman Forum.
Sources describing Rome's grandeur Pliny, Natural History;
Strabo, Geography; Curiosum Urbis Romae.
This site is a good introduction to the monuments and
history of the Roman Forum.
http://hyperion.advanced.org/11402/#Roman%20Forum
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"Since the city was not adorned as befitted the majesty of the empire and
was exposed to flood and fire, Augustus so beautified it that he could
justly boast that he had found it a city of brick and left it a city of
marble."
Suetonius, Life of Augustus, 28.3. |
April 20 9:30 Imperial Roman Art--Augustus to Trajan
Readings: Primary Sources, excerpts in booklet.
The Accomplishments of Augustus; Vergil's
Aeneid;
Vitruvius'
Dedication to Augustus; Suetonius, Life of Augustus;
Frontinus, The Water Supply of Rome
P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
J. B. Ward-Perkins, Roman Imperial Architecture, 21-95.
April 21 9:30
Roman Imperial 2nd and 3rd Centuries
Hadrian's Pantheon and Villa, Baths
Readings: Primary Sources Tacitus, Annals; Lucian, The
Bath,
Seneca, Moral Epistles; Historia Augusta; Life of Aurelian;
Aurelius Victor, Lives of the Emperors
W. MacDonald, The Pantheon, chapters 1 and 4.
Ward-Perkins Roman Imperial Architecture, 96-120
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"All mankind came under the rule of the city of Rome, to see the entire
world linked by a common bond in the name of Christ. Grant then, Christ,
to your Romans a Christian city, a capital Christian like the rest of the
world. Peter and Paul shall drive out Jupiter."
Prudentius |
April 21 1:30 Constantine and Early Christian Rome
Readings: Krautheimer, Rome: Profile of a City, Chapters
1 and 2
Find a guide to the Roman catacombs here
http://www.catacombe.roma.it/presenta_gb.html
| "Rome, once the head of the world, the world's pride,
the city of gold, Stands now a pitiful ruin, the wreck of its glory of
old."
Alcuin of York "This beauty passing understanding I long admired, and I thanked God who, though great in his manifestations throughout the earth, yet has magnified there the works of man with immeasurable beauty. For even if Rome falls into complete ruin, nothing that is intact can be compared to it." Master Gregory, 12th century English traveler. |
April 22 9:30 Medieval Rome and its Churches
Readings: Sources, Medieval Travelers to Rome Benedict the
Canon, The Marvels of Rome; Master Gregory, Pagan Antiquities
Krautheimer, Rome: Profile of a City, Chapter 5
SYLLABUS FOR RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART, WEEKS 1 AND 2
Week 1:
Friday
Introduction to Renaissance Rome; Rome of Sixtus IV and
Nicholas V
Reading: Vasari, Preface to the Lives (pp. 25-47); Preface to Part
II
(pp. 83-93); Preface to Part III (pp. 249-254)
Week 2:
Monday a.m.
Michelangelo (I)
Reading: Vasari, from the Life of Michelangelo, pp. 325-62, 378-83
From The Sistine Chapel (on reserve):
Hirst, pp. 8-25 (drawings)
Colalucci, pp. 26-45 (technique)
Shearman, pp. 80-109 (color)
Monday p.m. Raphael (I)
Tuesday a.m.
Raphael (II); Michelangelo, Last Judgment;
Reading: Vasari, Life of Raphael, pp. 284-324
Last Judgment (on reserve): Partridge, "An Interpretation,"
pp. 8-155
Excerpts from Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography (handout)
Tuesday p.m.
Mannerism; Introduction to Baroque Rome; Caravaggio, Bernini (I)
Reading: Wittkower, pp. 21-71 (handout)
Wednesday
Bernini (II), Borromini, and Other Artists of the Baroque
Reading: Wittkower, pp. 143-96; 197-225
Thursday
EXAM
Friday
FREE
Saturday
LEAVE FOR ROME