Art History 441
Florence and the Medici
Schedule of Lectures
Primarily a reconstruction of a Renaissance villa, ca. 1926.
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| NO. 1 Jan. 5 |
Introduction to the Course | Course Web site; Burckhardt Web site |
| WEBSITE | Burckhardt: "The Discovery of the World and of Man" | Read further as you feel inclined |
| No. 2 Jan. 7 |
The Landscape of Florence I: Basic Layout | Hibbert: 19-63 |
| WEBSITE | Please look over | |
| No. 3 Jan. 10 |
Landscape of Florence II: The Palazzo Vecchio, the Piazza Signoria and the Duomo | Gombrich, "The early Medici as patrons of art: a survey of primary sources" |
| No. 4 Jan. 12 |
Landscape of Florence III: Medici Territory in Florence: San Lorenzo, Piazza Ss Annunziata | |
| No. 5 Jan. 14 |
Cosimo "Pater Patriae" and early Medici art patronage | Hibbert: 64-78; Brown, "The Humanist Portrait of Cosimo de'Medici Pater Patriae" |
| No. 6 Jan. 19 |
Cosimo and San Lorenzo | Hibbert: 79-99; Fraser Jenkins |
| No. 7 Jan. 21 |
San Marco continued | As above |
| No. 8 Jan. 24 |
Early Domestic Architecture in Florence and the Medici Palace | Turner; Heydenreich: 25-33; Looper |
| WEBSITE | Florentine Domestic Architecture | Look over for 14th and 15th century palaces |
| No. 8 Jan. 24 |
PAPER PROPOSAL IS DUE | Due in class |
| No. 9 Jan. 26 |
Palazzo Rucellai and the New Palaces of Florence | Forster: 109-113 (AB vol. 68 (1976) |
| WEB SITE | CAA Review of Jacqueline Musacchio's Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy | Browse the Reviews for other topics |
| No. 10 Jan. 28 |
Tomb Monuments in Florence at Mid-Century | Look over: Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal |
| WEBSITE | Tomb of the Cardinal of Portugal | Tomb with a View "a quarterly newsletter" |
| No. 11 Jan. 31 |
Donatello and the Medici | Vasari's Life of Donatello; Bennett and Wilkins |
| No. 12 Feb. 2 |
Donatello and the Medici Language of Power | One article from three listed |
| Midterm | Here are the Midterm Essay Questions | Due in class, Monday Feb. 7 |
| No. 13 Feb. 4 |
Portraiture I: Sculpture | Avery; Lavin |
| WEB SITE: Portrait Busts | A Little Boy by Desiderio da Settignano; Giuliano de'Medici by Verrocchio; Beatrice of Aragon by Francesco Laurana | |
| No. 14 Feb. 7 |
Portraiture II: Painting | One article from the group listed |
| No. 15 Feb. 9 |
Piero "Il Gottoso" | Wright |
| No. 16 Feb. 11 |
Lorenzo Builds | Elam and Kent |
| No. 16 Feb. 11 |
ANNOTATED PAPER PROPOSAL IS DUE | |
| WEB SITE | Pliny the Younger on country life | PLEASE READ |
| No. 17 Feb. 14 |
Lorenzo il Magnifico: the Joust of Love and Early Humanism | Hankins and one other |
| WEB SITE | Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man | Please Read |
| No. 18 Feb. 16 |
Humanism under Lorenzo | Hankins and one other |
| No. 19 Feb. 18 |
Life in the Villa | Ackerman; Pellecchia is optional |
| No. 20 Feb. 21 |
Sculpture for the Medici: Verrocchio | Avery, (7); skim the Verrocchio books |
| No. 21 Feb. 23 |
The End of the Republican Medici and Republican Florence | Rubenstein and one other |
| No. 22 Feb. 25 |
Cosimo I: the Last of the Old and the First of the New Medici | van Veen |
| No. 23 Feb. 28 |
Michelangelo and the Medici and Florence | Avery (8) |
| No. 24 March 1 |
PRESENTATIONS: 10-15 MINUTES; 8-10 SLIDES | Forza! |
| No. 25 March 3 |
Michelangelo: San Lorenzo, the New Sacristy | Read at least one of the articles listed |
| No. 26 March 6 |
Sculpture in Florence from circa 1530 | Avery (10-12); Life of Benvenuto Cellini |
| No. 27 March 8 |
PAPERS DUE | |
| No. 27 March 8 |
Cosimo I: The Chapel of Eleonora and the Portraiture of Bronzino | Hibbert (finish), McCorquodale; Cox-Rearick |
| No. 28 March 10 |
Vasari as Court Artist to Cosimo I | |
| March | Essays |
