Wednesday, January 9: Introduction: The Renaissance
and Humanism
Friday, January 11: The Idea of The Renaissance:
Petrarch, Antiquity, and Renaissance Self-Realization
Monday, January 14: Art and Culture in Italy: Antiquity, the Artist, and
Disegno:
• “Prelude: Italy and Italian
Art,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 17-36
Wednesday, January 16: Ducento Art and Architecture: Coppo di Marcovaldo,
Cimabue, Pietro Cavallini, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio:
• “Ducento Art In Tuscany
and Rome,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
39-71
Friday, January 18: Florence in the Trecento: Giotto and Andrea Pisano:
• “Florentine Art of the
Early Trecento,” History of Italian Renaissance Art,
pp. 73-101
Monday, January 21: Martin Luther King Holiday (no class)
Wednesday, January 23: Siena: Duccio, Simone Martini, Pietro And Ambrogio
Lorenzetti, Lorenzo Maitani:
• “Sienese Art of the Early
Trecento,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
103-135
Friday, January 25: The Transition from Gothic to Renaissance: Orcagna,
Lorenzo Monaco:
• “Later Gothic Art in
Tuscany and Northern Italy,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 137-156
• “Introduction,” The Italian Renaissance,
pp. 1-11
• “The Arts in Renaissance Italy,” The Italian
Renaissance, pp. 15-26
• “Historians: The Discovery of Social and Cultural History,”
The Italian Renaissance, pp. 28-39
Monday, January 28: QUIZ I
Wednesday, January 30: Early Renaissance Architecture:
Brunelleschi and Michelozzo:
• “The Beginnings of Renaissance
Architecture,” History of Italian Renaissance Art,
pp. 159-175
Friday, February 1: Early Renaissance
Sculpture: Ghiberti, Donatello, Nanni di Banco, Jacopo della Quercia:
• “Gothic and Renaissance
in Tuscan Sculpture,” History of Italian Renaissance Art,
pp. 177-199
Monday, February 4: Early Renaissance
Painting (I): Gentile di Fabriano, Masolino and Masaccio:
• “Gothic and Renaissance
in Florentine Painting,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 201-218
Wednesday, February 6: Early Renaissance
Painting (II): Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi:
• “The Heritage of Masaccio
and the Second Renaissance Style,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 221-237
Friday, February 8: Perspective and Pictorial
Composition: Painting and Rhetoric: The Narrative Image and the Devotional
Image:
• “Alberti,” Artistic
Theory in Italy 1450-1600, pp. 1-22
Monday, February 11: Alberti and Renaissance
Architecture:
• “The Second Renaissance
Style in Architecture and Sculpture,” History of Italian
Renaissance Art, pp. 239-250
Wednesday, February 13: Ghiberti’s
Gates of Paradise, Luca della Robbia, Donatello:
• “The Second Renaissance
Style in Architecture and Sculpture,” History of Italian
Renaissance Art, pp. 250-263
Friday, February 15: QUIZ II
Monday, February 18: President’s
Day (no class)
Wednesday, February 20:
no class
Friday, February 22: no
class
Monday, February 25: no class
Wednesday, February 27: Albertian Painting
in the Quattrocento: Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veneziano, Andrea del Castagno:
• “Absolute Perfect Paintings:
The Second Renaissance Style,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 265-281
• “Artists and Writers,” The Italian Renaissance,
pp. 43-87
Friday, February 29: Piero della Francesca
and Quantitative Proportion; Donatello after 1453; Giuliano da Sangallo:
• “Absolute Perfect Paintings:
The Second Renaissance Style,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 281-297
• “Crisis and Crosscurrents,” History of Italian
Renaissance Art, pp. 299-323
Monday, March 3: Antonio del Pollaiuolo
and Andrea del Verrocchio:
• “Science, Poetry, and
Prose,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 325-337
• “Patrons and Clients,” The Italian Renaissance,
pp. 88-123
• “The Uses of Works of Art,”
The Italian Renaissance, pp. 124-142
Wednesday, March 5: MIDTERM
Friday, March 7-Monday, March 17: Spring
Break
Wednesday, March 19: Theologica Poetica
and Botticelli; Filippino Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio:
• “Science, Poetry, and
Prose,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 337-362
• “Taste,” The Italian Renaissance, pp.
143-161
• “Iconography,” The Italian Renaissance,
pp. 162-174
Friday, March 21: Colore: Venice and
Northern Italy: Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni
Bellini:
• “Gothic and Renaissance
in Venice and Northern Italy,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 391-424
• “Worldviews: Some Dominant Traits,” The Italian
Renaissance, pp. 177-203
Monday, March 24: Florence and The High
Renaissance: Florentine Neoplatonism and Humanism:
• “The Social Framework,”
The Italian Renaissance, pp. 204-228
• “Introduction,” The Reformation: A History,
pp. xix-xxvii
• “The Old Church 1490-1517,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 3-52
Wednesday, March 26: Leonardo da Vinci:
• “The High Renaissance
in Florence,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
445-468
• “Leonardo,” Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600,
pp. 23-38
• “Colonna: Filarete: Savonarola,” Artistic
Theory in Italy 1450-1600, pp. 39-47
Friday, March 28: Michelangelo and Florence:
• “The High Renaissance
in Florence,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
469-478
• “Michelangelo,” Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600,
pp. 58-81
Monday, March 31: QUIZ III
Wednesday, April 2: Raphael and Fra Bartolommeo:
• “The High Renaissance
in Florence,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
479-485
• “The Social Position of the Artist,” Artistic
Theory in Italy 1450-1600, pp. 48-57
• “Hopes and Fears,” 1490-1517,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 53-105
Friday, April 4: The High Renaissance
in Rome: Bramante and High Renaissance Architecture: Michelangelo in
Rome: The Tomb of Julius II:
• “The High Renaissance
in Rome,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 493-503
Monday, April 7: The Sistine Chapel:
• “The High Renaissance
in Rome,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 503-521
• “Cultural and Social Change,” The Italian
Renaissance, pp. 229-241
Wednesday, April 9: Raphael in Rome:
• “The High Renaissance
in Rome,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 521-47
• “The Minor Writers of the High Renaissance,” Artistic
Theory in Italy 1450-1600, pp. 82-85
• “Comparisons and Conclusions,” The Italian
Renaissance, pp. 242-250
Friday, April 11: La Maniera and Mannerism:
Michelangelo at San Lorenzo; The Reformation and Counter-Reformation:
• “High Renaissance and
Mannerism,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp.
549-561
• “New Heaven: New Earth 1517-24,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 106-157
Monday, April 15: Mannerism: Andrea del
Sarto, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Beccafumi, Correggio, Parmigianino;
Mannerist Architecture: Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Antonio da Sangallo
the Younger, Giulio Romano:
• “High and Late Renaissance
in Venice and on the Mainland,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 561-597
• “Wooing the Magistrate, 1524-40,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 158-21
Wednesday, April 16: Venice in the Cinquicento:
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese; Venetian Architecture:
Jacopo Sansovino, Andrea Palladio:
• “High and Late Renaissance
in Venice and on the Mainland,” History of Italian Renaissance
Art, pp. 599-655
Friday, April 18: Michelangelo after
1534: The Last Judgment, St. Peter’s, the Late Pietas:
• “Michelangelo and the
Maniera,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 657-667
• “Reunion Deferred: Catholic and Protestant, 1530-60,”
The Reformation: A History, pp. 213-269
Monday, April 21: QUIZ IV
Wednesday, April 23: Michelangelo and
the Maniera: Cellini, Ammanati, Bronzino, Vasari:
• “Michelangelo and the
Maniera,” History of Italian Renaissance Art, pp. 667-91
• “Vasari,” Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600,
pp. 86-102
• “The Council of Trent and Religious Art,” Artistic
Theory in Italy 1450-1600, pp. 103-36
• “The Later Mannerists,” Artistic Theory in
Italy 1450-1600, pp. 137-159
• “Reunion Scorned, 1547-70,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 270-313
Friday, April 25: The Reformation and
Counter-Reformation:
• “Changing Times,”
The Reformation: A History, pp. 549-575
• “Death, Life, and Discipline,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 576-607
Monday, April 28: The Reformation and
Counter-Reformation:
• “The New Europe Defined,
1569-72,” The Reformation: A History, pp. 317-346
• “The North: Protestant Heartlands,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 347-399
• “The South: Catholic Heartlands,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 400-441
Wednesday, April 30: The Reformation
and Counter-Reformation:
• “Love and Sex: Staying
the Same,” The Reformation: A History, pp. 608-629
• “Love and Sex: Moving On,” The Reformation:
A History, pp. 630-667
Friday, May 2: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation:
• “Outcomes,” The
Reformation: A History, pp. 668-708
Monday, May 10: Final Examination: 10:00-12:00
