Weekly programs
Week 1. Art and civic pride
Monday, 8th June 2015 | Tuesday, 9th June 2015 | Wednesday, 10th June 2015 | Thursday, 11th June 2015 | Friday, 12th June 2015 | |
9:00-10:15 | Introduction to the course | The decoration of the Cathedral, Nanni di Banco and Donatello | Visit to FlorenceOrsanmichele, Santa Maria del Carmine, Santa Maria del Fiore, Santa Maria Novella, Santa Croce, San Miniato al Monte. | Ghiberti and the Gates of Paradise | The early Renaissance church |
10:30-11:45 | The Guilds and the decoration of Orsanmichele, Nanni di Banco | Donatello and Ghiberti at Orsanmichele: from marble to bronze | Donatello’s relief sculpture: stucco, marble and bronze | The altar: liturgical furnishings | |
Lunch Break | |||||
13:30-14:45 | The 1401 competition for the Baptistry’s bronze doors: Brunelleschi and Ghiberti | Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria Novella | Fresco cycles: Masaccio, Masolino and chapel decoration | ||
15:00-16:15 | Iconography and material history of Ghiberti’s first doors | Brunelleschi, Masaccio and the re-discovery of perspective | Devotional cycles in monasteries: Angelico at San Marco |
Week 2. A world of art
Monday, 15th June 2015 | Tuesday, 16th June 2015 | Wednesday, 17th June 2015 | Thursday, 18th June 2015 | Friday, 19th June 2015 | |
9:00-10:15 | Fixed and movable church furnishings | The confraternities and their charitable work (hospitals etc.) | Visit to FlorenceSan Marco, San Lorenzo,Santo Spirito,Museo del Bargello | Giuliano da Sangallo and Lorenzo de Medici’s villas | Verrocchio , Ghirlandaio and their workshops (Lorenzo di Credi, Leonardo and Michelangelo) |
10:30-11:45 | The tomb: from tomb slab to monument | The Renaissance palace | Botticelli’s decorative paintings | The bonfire of the vanities: Savonarola, the first republic and the arts | |
Lunch Break | Departure to Fondazione Cerratelli, Pugnano* | ||||
13:30-14:45 | The Old Sacristy in San Lorenzo | Cosimo de’ Medici and his painters (Angelico, Gozzoli, Lippi, Castagno, Uccello) | The early Renaissance portrait and bust | ||
15:00-16:15 | Private devotional images: Donatello, Ghiberti, Della Robbia and the issue of serial production | The furniture of the Renaissance palace | Renaissance clothingFollowed by visit to the collection |
Week 3. Sculpture and painting in the service of the Prince
Monday, 22nd June 2015 | Tuesday, 23rd June 2015 | Wednesday, 24th June 2015 | Thursday, 25th June 2015 | Friday, 26th June 2015 | |
9:00-10:15 | Painting in Florence at the beginning of the 16th century: the relationship with Rome and the rest of the peninsula | Fra’ Bartolomeo and his school | Visit to Medici Villas outside Florence | The New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library | The painted decoration of Poggio a Cajano |
10:30-11:45 | Pietro Soderini and the arts: Leonardo and Michelangelo | Andrea del Sarto from the Chiostro dello Scalzo to France | The entry of Leo X into Florence (1515) | The high Renaissance palace: architecture and furnishings | |
Lunch Break | |||||
13:30-14:45 | Lorenzo de Medici’s garden at San Marco and Michelangelo’s early sculpture | Benedetto da Rovezzano and sculpture in early Cinquecento Florence | The Clementine style | The Palazzo Vecchio and courtly life | |
15:00-16:15 | Perugino and Raphael in Florence | Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino | The Renaissance portrait: from merchants to courtiers | Presentations and closing discussion |