Teaching code

4S01357

Teacher

Dario Donetti

Coordinator

Dario Donetti

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ICAR/18 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Period

1 A, 1 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Understanding the value of the relationship between the client requests’ and their interpretation in the works of the leading figures of Italian architecture in the 16th and in the beginning of the 17th  centuries ( Donato Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Antonio da Sangallo il V.; Antonio da Sangallo il G. , Baldassarre Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Michele Sanmicheli, Michelangelo Buonarroti,  Andrea Palladio, Carlo Maderno) 

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prior requirements are required, but students are encouraged to attend the course after acquiring fundamental notions of the History of Medieval Architecture and History of Early Modern Art

Program

The course will cover the main episodes in the history of early modern architecture: the lessons will offer a critical reflection on the comparison between architectural production and theoretical reflection, and will especially deepen the relationship with the socio-political, economic and cultural context. In particular, the history of architecture from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century will be treated by describing: - the protagonists of the fifteenth century and the main centers of elaboration of the Renaissance language; - the Roman, Florentine and Venetian schools in the early sixteenth century; - the diffusion of classicism in Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century through the work of Palladio and Vignola; - the protagonists of Baroque architecture; - the European city between the 17th and 18th centuries.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons, according to the following program: 1. architecture in the age of Humanism; geography of the Italian Renaissance 2. Filippo Brunelleschi 3. Leon Battista Alberti 4. Rossellino in Pienza 5. the recovery of the Ancient 6. the Rome of Bramante and Raphael 7. Michelangelo 8. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger 9. Giorgio Vasari and Bartolomeo Ammannati 10. architectural drawing in the Renaissance 11. Michele San Micheli 12. Andrea Palladio 13. Vignola 14. the architectural treatise 15. Bernini 16. Borromini 17. Guarino Guarini 18. the baroque city
Reference texts: CL Frommel, 'Architettura del Italian Renaissance ', Skira, Milan 2009 (pp.17-120: "The Fifteenth Century"). W. Lotz, 'Architecture in Italy 1500-1600', RCS, Milan, 1997. C. Norberg-Schulz, 'Baroque Architecture', Electa, Milan 1971 (pp. 5-143: "The Baroque age"; "The city "; The church").

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will consist of an oral discussion and will be based on the images shown by the instructor during the course.

Evaluation criteria

The exam will verify the knowledge of the topics covered in the lectures and of the bibliography. Student's demonstrate mastery of the critical contents of the course, i.e., to be able to analyze architectural artefacts and their language, contextualizing them with respect to their own era, the biography of their architect and the overall development of the history of architecture in Italy and Europe.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The exam will take place in one session and the evaluation expressed out of thirty.

Exam language

Italiano