Class Schedule & Readings
August 3: INTRODUCTION & FLORENCE 1400-1440
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 10, “Florence: Commune and Guild,” pp. 202-235.
REQUIRED VIDEOS
Marble: https://www.khanacademy.org/video/quarrying-and-carving-marble
Gold Ground Panel Painting: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/artists-materials-techniques/painting-materials-techniques/v/gold-ground-panel-painting
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
History of Western Culture: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/a-brief-history-of-western-culture
Birth of Gothic Art: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/gothic1/v/birth-of-the-gothic-abbot-suger-and-the-ambulatory-in-the-basilica-of-st-denis-1140-44
Looking at Paintings: https://www.khanacademy.org/video/looking-at-paintings
August 4: FLORENCE 1440-1470
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 10, “Florence: Commune and Guild” & Chapter 11, “Florence: The Medici and Political Propaganda,” pp. 234-268.
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Donatello’s David: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/sculpture-architecture-florence/v/donatello-david-bronze-c-1440s
Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/sculpture-architecture-florence/v/ghiberti-gates-paradise
August 5: SIENA
Diana Norman, Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (1260-1555), Excerpts from Chapters 3 & 4, pp. 150-171.
Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Art and Culture in Renaissance Siena.” In, Painting in Renaissance Siena: 1420-1500, edited by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), pp. 33-58.
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Duccio’s Maesta: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/siena-late-gothic/v/duccio-maesta-front-1308-11
Tempera Paint: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/artists-materials-techniques/painting-materials-techniques/v/tempera-paint
August 6: URBINO & RIMINI
EXHIBITION PROPOSALS DUE
Mary Hollingsworth, “Art Patronage in Renaissance Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini, c. 1400-1550.” In, The Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 325-350.
-Patrons and Courts:http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-8/
-Medals and the Studiolo: http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-4/
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Piero della Francesca Portraits: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/central-italy1/v/piero-della-francesca-portraits-of-the-duke-and-duchess-of-urbino-1467-72
August 10: FERRARA & MANTUA
Laurie Schneider Adams, Italian Renaissance Art (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001), Chapter 12: “Fifteenth-Century Developments in Verona, Ferrara, and Mantua.”
-Patrons and Courts:http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-8/
-Chivalry: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/medieval-europe/v/chivalry-middle-ages
-Medals and the Studiolo: http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-4/
-Making of an Artist: http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-3/
-Recovering Rome: http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-7/
August 11: THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES & SICILY
Joanna Woods-Marsden, “Art and Political Identity in Fifteenth-Century Naples: Pisanello, Cristoforo di Geremia and King Alfonso’s Imperial Fantasies.” In, Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500, edited by Charles M. Rosenberg (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), pp. 11-25.
Keith Christiansen, "The Exhalted Art of Antonello da Messina" and "Biographical Note." In, Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master (Metropolitan Museum of New York: New York, 2005), pp. 13-6 & 51-2.
-Manuscripts: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/medieval-book/making-medieval-book/v/making-manuscripts
-Manuscripts: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/medieval-europe/v/manuscripts
August 12: THE COURT OF MILAN
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 15, “Sforza Milan,” pp. 362-378.
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Leonardo da Vinci: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/leonardo-da-vinci/v/leonardo-anatomist
August 13: FLORENCE: 1470-1500
MIDTERM EXAM (TAKE-HOME ESSAY)
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 11, “Florence: The Medici and Politica Propaganda,” pp. 268-285.
-Presentation of the Self: http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-5/
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Verrocchio and Leonardo: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/beginners-guide-high-ren/v/verrocchio-with-leonardo-baptism-of-christ-1470-75
For more about the Medici: http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/index.html
August 17: ROME
DIGITAL EXHIBITION PROJECTS DUE
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 12, “Rome: Re-establishing Papal Power,” pp. 286-310.
-3D Sistine Chapel: http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Michelangelo’s Drawings: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/thinking-aloud
Michelangelo’s Pietà: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/michelangelo/v/michelangelo-piet-1498-1500
August 18: VENICE I
Patricia Fortini Brown, “Venezianità: The Otherness of the Venetians.” In, Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, pp. 9-38.
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Venice: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/renaissance-venice
Mosaics: https://www.khanacademy.org/video/ancient-and-byzantine-mosaic-materials
August 19: VENICE II
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Chapter 13, “Venice: Affirming the Past and Present,” pp. 311-332.
SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEOS
Oil Paint in Venice: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/artists-materials-techniques/painting-materials-techniques/v/oil-paint-in-venice
August 20: FINAL EXAM