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