Learning objectives
Study of the history of Italian architecture in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Course unit content
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The lectures will examine in-depth the topics introduced in the books given in the bibliography.
Bibliography
both for attending and non-attending students. Attending students must also prepare an in-depth- study theme to be agreed on with the professor. Compulsory for all students: ON THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: FRANCESCO PAOLO FIORE (a cura), Storia dell’ Architettura italiana. Il Quattrocento, Milano, Electa, 1998, only three essays from this book must be studied, precisely: ARNALDO BRUSCHI, Brunelleschi e la nuova architettura fiorentina, pp.38-113 HOWARD BURNS, Leon Battista Alberti, page. 114-165 FRANCESCO PAOLO FIORE, Siena e Urbino, page. 272-313. ON THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY : WOLFGANG LOTZ, Architettura in Italia, 1500-1600, (nuova ediz. a cura di Deborah Howard), Milano, RCS Libri, 1997; only the following parts are compulsory: Chapter 1 all (Bramante); chapter 2 all (Raffaello); chapter 3 all (other buildings in central Italy); chapter 4 all (Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo il giovane); chapter 7 all (Giulio Romano); chapter 9 all (Michelangelo); chapter 10 only par. 2 (Vignola, pages. 110-120); chapter 11 only par. 1, 3, 4 (Galeazzo Alessi and Pellegrino Tibaldi); chapter 12 all (Palladio) BAROQUE AND LATE BAROQUE: NICOLAUS PE, Storia dell’architettura europea, [orig. Engl. Iss. 1943]; recommended Italian iss.: Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1984 (or subsequent reprints); only the following parts are compulsory: chapter 6 (pages. 154-185) and chapter 7 (pages 186-229)
Teaching methods
Lectures including the projection of slides and guided tours.<br />
Oral test
