SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

• Instructor: Adrienne DeAngelis
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Week I

• Lecture I: Introduction to the study of architecture in the Italian Renaissance
  Tim Benton, "The Three Cities Compared: urbanism." In Siena, Florence and Padua: Art, Society and Religion 1280-1400: 7-28.
  Paul Davies, "Introduction", in Architecture in Italy: 1400-1500: 1-6.
• Lecture 2: The Bad Old Style: "Gothic" architecture in Italy
  Vasari: selections
  Tim Benton, "The Design of Siena and Florence Duomos." In Siena, Florence,...: 129-144.
  M. Trachtenberg, "Gothic/Italian 'Gothic'": Toward a Redefinition." J. Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 50 (1991): 22-37.
  E. H. Gombrich, "From Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts." The Heritage of Apelles: 93-116.

Week II

• Lecture 3: The early 15th century in Tuscany
  Mary Hollingsworth, "The Architect in fifteenth-century Florence." Art History, vol. 7: 4 (1984): 385-410.
  Gene Brucker, Renaissance Florence, 1969: 1-50. (Read over the next four lectures)
  
• Lecture 4: Brunelleschi and the Dome of Florence Cathedral
  Heydenreich: "Brunelleschi", in Architecture in Italy: 1400-1500: 12-24.
  Howard Saalman, "Early Italian Architecture." Burlington Magazine, vol. 120 (1978): 27-31.
  Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore. London, 1980 (selections).
  Nicolas Adams, review of Saalman, Art Bulletin, vol. 63 (1983): 513-515.

Week III

• Lecture 5: Brunelleschi and Michelozzo
  Heydenreich: as above; and 25-30.
  Vasari: "The Life of Michelozzo."
  H. M. Caplow, Michelozzo. (selections)
  Please see:

  On the Medici Palace.

• Lecture 6: The idea of antiquity in the fifteenth century
  Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture: all
  Howard Burns, "Quattrocento Architecture and the Antique: some Problems." In Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500-1500, Cambridge, UK 1971: 269-287.

Week IV

• Lecture 7: Alberti as Theorist and Builder
  Heydenreich: "Alberti": 34-44.
  Richard Krautheimer, "Alberti and Vitruvius" in Renaissance and Mannerism, vol. II: 1963): 42-52.
  Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Prinples in the Age of Humanism: 3-56.
• Lecture 8: The Palace: Florence and Tuscany and The Ducal Palace, Urbino
  Heydenreich, 74-81.
  Howard Saalman, "The Ducal Palace of Urbino." Burlington Magazine, vol. 113 (1970): 46-51.
  F. W. Kent, "Palaces, Politics and Society in Fifteenth-Century Florence." I Tatti Studies, II (1987).

Week V

• Lecture 9: Fifteenth Century Architectural Theories: The Ideal City and City Planning
  Christine Smith, "Vanitas and the Design of Pienza." In Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism, 1992: 98-129.
  Richard Krautheimer, "The Panels in Berlin, Urbino and Baltimore Reconsidered" The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, exhib. cat., eds. H. Millon and V. Lampugnani 1994: 233-257.
• Lecture 10: Fifteenth Century Architectural Theories: Francesco di Giorgio
  Lawrence Lowic, "The Meaning and Significance of the Human Analogy in Francesco di Giorgio's Trattato." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 42 (1983): 360-370.
  John Onians, Bearers of Meaning, 1988: 171-181.

Week VI

• Lecture 11: The Central-Plan Building
  Wolfgang Lotz, "Notes on the Centralized Church of the Renaissance" from his Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture: 66-73.
• Lecture 12: Bramante and Leonardo in Milan
  Heydenreich: 137-151.
  Arnaldo Bruschi: Bramante, 1977: 27-69.

Week VII

• Lecture 13: Venice: the Fifteenth Century
  Heydenreich: 86-101.
  Deborah Howard, The Architectural History of Venice, Chapter 5: "Early Renaissance": 102-135.
  Margaret Plant, "Mauro Codussi: The Presence of the Past in Venetian Renaissance Architecture." Arte Veneta, XXXVIII (1984): 9-22.
  Ralph Lieberman, Renaissance Architecture in Venice: 1450-1540. 1982. Look over, esp. the buildings by Mauro Codussi and Pietro Lombardo.
• Lecture 14: Venice and the Veneto in the Fifteenth Century
  Readings: as above.

Week VIII

• Lecture 15: Midterm
• Lecture 16: Rome and the new Antiquarians
  D. Howard, "Introduction" in Architecture in Italy: 1500-1600: 1-7. Hubertus GÙnther, "The Renaissance of Antiquity" from The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, 1994: 150-163.
  John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture: 7-26.

Week IX

• Lecture 17: Bramante in Rome
  Lotz: 11-25.
  Paolo Portoghesi: "Bramante" from his Rome of the Renaissance: 41-59. Deborah Howard, "Bramante's Tempietto." Apollo, vol. 136 (October 1992): 211-217.
• Lecture 18: Architecture as Profession in the Sixteenth Century
  James Ackerman, "Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance." In Distance Points: 361-384.
  Henry Millon, "Models in Renaissance Architecture" in The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: 19-73. (This is mostly illustrations).
  Lotz: "The Rendering of the Interior in Architectural Drawings of the Renaissance." In Studies in the Italian Renaissance: 1-41.
  Howard Burns, "Building and Construction in Palladio's Vicenza." In Les Chantiers de la Renaissance, ed. J. Guillaume, Paris, 1991: 191-226.

Week X

• Lecture 19: The Early Sixteenth Century in Rome and Central Italy
  Lotz: 27-60.
  Roger Jones and Nicholas Penny, Raphael, 1983: 199-234.
  James Ackerman, "Introduction" in The Architecture of Michelangelo: 28-36.
• Lecture 20: The Roman Palace and Villa (with a Brief Excursion to Verona)
  James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, 1990, "Sources of the Renaissance Villa": 9-34.
  David Coffin, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, 1979: 9-18, 23-26.

Week XI

• Lecture 21: The Project to rebuild St. Peter's from Alberti to Sangallo
  Lotz: 23-35.
  Christoph Frommel, "St. Peter's: The Early History." In The Renaissance..., 1994: 395-423.
  
• Lecture 22: Mannerism in Architecture: Giulio Romano and the Palazzo del Te'
  Lotz: 76-82.
  Ernst H. Gombrich, New Light on Old Masters: "'That Rare Italian Master...' Giulio Romano, Court Architect, Painter and Impresario": 147-160 and "Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te": 161-179.
  John Shearman, Mannerism, 1967 (selections)

Week XII

• Lecture 23: Michelangelo as architect: Florence
  Lotz: 89-94.
  James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo: 69-94.
  Sheryl E. Reiss, "The Ginori Corridor of San Lorenzo and the Building History of the New Sacristy." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 52 (Sept. 1993): 339-343.
• Lecture 24: Michelangelo in Rome: the Capitoline Hill
  Lotz: 89-94.
  James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo, Chapter 6, "The Capitoline Hill": 136-170.

Week XIII

• Lecture 25: Michelangelo in Rome: the Farnese Palace and St. PeterÍs
  Lotz: 97-106.
  James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo, Chapter 7, "The Farnese Palace": 171-192 and Chapter 8, "The Basilica of St. Peter": 193-220.
  Ian Campbell. "The new St. Peter's: basilica or temple?" Oxford Art Journal, vol. 4 (1981): 3-8.
• Lecture 26: Venice: Sansovino
  Lotz: 83-88.
  Deborah Howard, Jacopo Sansovino: 1-47. Deborah Howard, The Architectural History of Venice, Chapter 6, "'Roman' Renaissance": 136-159.
  Ralph Lieberman, Renaissance Architecture in Venice: 1450-1540. 1982. Read from plate 79; pay special attention to Jacopo Sansovino (plates 98 and 99).

Week XIV

• Lecture 27: Palladio's early career and the villa in the Veneto
  Lotz: 147-157.
  James Ackerman, Palladio, 1966: 36-80 Wolfgang Wolters, "Villas for Venetians" in The Art of Renaissance Venice: 115-128.
  Andrea Palladio, I Quattro Libri. (look over).
  Boucher, Andrea Palladio: the Architect in His Time, 1994: Chapter VIII, "The Quattro Libri.": 231-263.
• Lecture 28: Palladio in Venice
  James Ackerman, Palladio: 126-159.
  Deborah Howard, The Architectural History of Venice Chapter 6: 160-173.
  Boucher, Andrea Palladio: Chapter VI, "Religious Architecture": 171-203 and Chapter IX "Palladio's Late Style" : 265-299.

Week XV

• Lecture 29: Genoa and Architecture in Tuscany: 1550-1600
  Lotz: 130-135 (Alessi) and 164-172.
  Leon Satkowski, Giorgio Vasari Architect and Courtier, 1993: 7-12; 25-44.
• Lecture 30: Rome: 1550-1600
  Lotz: 107-129.
  James Ackerman, "The Gesu' in the Light of Contemporary Church Design." In Distance Points, Chapter 14: 417-451.

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