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B002399 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE I
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Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2020 - 5-years Single Cycle Degree in ARCHITECTURE
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Architecture (DIDA)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ICAR/18 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Credits
8
Teaching Hours
64
Teaching Term
21/09/2020 ⇒ 18/12/2020
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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- Last names A-D FUNIS FRANCESCA
- Last names E-M MAZZANTI BEATRICE
- Last names N-Z CAPORALI ALESSIO
Teaching Language - Last names A-D
Italian
Teaching Language - Last names E-M
Italian
Teaching Language - Last names N-Z
Italian
Course Content - Last names A-D
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Course Content - Last names E-M
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Course Content - Last names N-Z
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Suggested readings - Last names A-D (Search our library's catalogue)
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, the teacher will supply students with PDfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Suggested readings - Last names E-M (Search our library's catalogue)
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, teachers will supply students with pdfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Suggested readings - Last names N-Z (Search our library's catalogue)
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, teachers will supply students with pdfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Learning Objectives - Last names A-D
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Learning Objectives - Last names E-M
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Learning Objectives - Last names N-Z
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Teaching Methods - Last names A-D
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Teaching Methods - Last names E-M
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Teaching Methods - Last names N-Z
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Further information - Last names A-D
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Further information - Last names E-M
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Further information - Last names N-Z
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Type of Assessment - Last names A-D
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Vitruvius' Basilica at Fano.
13. Basilica of Maxentius
14. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
15. Colosseum
16. Pantheon
17. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
18. Domus Aurea
19. Domus Flavia
20. Baths of Titus
21. Baths of Diocletian
22. Hadrian's Villa
23. St Peter's Basilica
24. San Lorenzo, Milan
25. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
26. San Vitale, Ravenna
27. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
28. Cluny Abbey
29. St Mark's, Venice
30. Pisa Cathedral
31. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
32. Modena Cathedral
33. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
34. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
35. San Nicola, Bari
36. Monreale Cathedral
37. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
38. Notre-Dame de Paris
39. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
40. Siena Cathedral
41. Florence Cathedral
42. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
43. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
44. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
45. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
46. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
47. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
48. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
49. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
50. Pienza
51. Urbino
52. Ferrara
53. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
54. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
55. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
56. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
57. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
58. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
59. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
60. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
61. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
62. New Sacristy, Florence
63. Laurentian Library, Florence
64. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
65. Medici villas
66. Villa Madama, Rome
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Vitruvius' Basilica at Fano.
13. Basilica of Maxentius
14. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
15. Colosseum
16. Pantheon
17. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
18. Domus Aurea
19. Domus Flavia
20. Baths of Titus
21. Baths of Diocletian
22. Hadrian's Villa
23. St Peter's Basilica
24. San Lorenzo, Milan
25. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
26. San Vitale, Ravenna
27. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
28. Cluny Abbey
29. St Mark's, Venice
30. Pisa Cathedral
31. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
32. Modena Cathedral
33. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
34. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
35. San Nicola, Bari
36. Monreale Cathedral
37. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
38. Notre-Dame de Paris
39. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
40. Siena Cathedral
41. Florence Cathedral
42. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
43. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
44. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
45. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
46. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
47. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
48. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
49. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
50. Pienza
51. Urbino
52. Ferrara
53. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
54. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
55. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
56. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
57. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
58. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
59. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
60. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
61. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
62. New Sacristy, Florence
63. Laurentian Library, Florence
64. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
65. Medici villas
66. Villa Madama, Rome
Type of Assessment - Last names E-M
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.
Type of Assessment - Last names N-Z
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.
Course program - Last names A-D
Course content
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Reference texts
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, the teacher will supply students with PDfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Assessment methods
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Vitruvius' Basilica at Fano.
13. Basilica of Maxentius
14. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
15. Colosseum
16. Pantheon
17. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
18. Domus Aurea
19. Domus Flavia
20. Baths of Titus
21. Baths of Diocletian
22. Hadrian's Villa
23. St Peter's Basilica
24. San Lorenzo, Milan
25. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
26. San Vitale, Ravenna
27. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
28. Cluny Abbey
29. St Mark's, Venice
30. Pisa Cathedral
31. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
32. Modena Cathedral
33. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
34. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
35. San Nicola, Bari
36. Monreale Cathedral
37. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
38. Notre-Dame de Paris
39. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
40. Siena Cathedral
41. Florence Cathedral
42. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
43. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
44. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
45. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
46. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
47. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
48. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
49. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
50. Pienza
51. Urbino
52. Ferrara
53. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
54. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
55. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
56. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
57. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
58. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
59. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
60. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
61. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
62. New Sacristy, Florence
63. Laurentian Library, Florence
64. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
65. Medici villas
66. Villa Madama, Rome
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Reference texts
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, the teacher will supply students with PDfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Assessment methods
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Vitruvius' Basilica at Fano.
13. Basilica of Maxentius
14. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
15. Colosseum
16. Pantheon
17. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
18. Domus Aurea
19. Domus Flavia
20. Baths of Titus
21. Baths of Diocletian
22. Hadrian's Villa
23. St Peter's Basilica
24. San Lorenzo, Milan
25. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
26. San Vitale, Ravenna
27. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
28. Cluny Abbey
29. St Mark's, Venice
30. Pisa Cathedral
31. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
32. Modena Cathedral
33. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
34. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
35. San Nicola, Bari
36. Monreale Cathedral
37. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
38. Notre-Dame de Paris
39. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
40. Siena Cathedral
41. Florence Cathedral
42. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
43. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
44. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
45. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
46. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
47. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
48. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
49. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
50. Pienza
51. Urbino
52. Ferrara
53. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
54. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
55. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
56. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
57. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
58. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
59. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
60. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
61. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
62. New Sacristy, Florence
63. Laurentian Library, Florence
64. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
65. Medici villas
66. Villa Madama, Rome
Course program - Last names N-Z
Course content
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Reference texts
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, teachers will supply students with pdfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Assessment methods
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Hellenistic architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; early Christian architecture; early medieval architecture; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture, and Renaissance architecture.
Reference texts
At the end of every lesson, or group of lessons, teachers will supply students with pdfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Moodle with access key.
Textbooks:
- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, fourth edition – yellow version, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 (or earlier editions)
- G. Fossi, E. Ferretti et al., Arte viva Plus, art history course for Scientific High Schools, Giunti Editori, Florence, first ed. 2012
- L. Bartolini Salimbeni et al., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura per i corsi di storia dell'architettura, Sovera Edizioni, Rome 2018 (or earlier editions).
Texts for comparison and analysis:
- N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, Overlook Press, New York 1966 (or later eds.)
- D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Watson-Guptill Pubns, New York 2000 (or later eds.)
- P. Gros, L' architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a. C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Longanesi, Milan 2001
- H. Millon, V. Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, Bompiani, Milan 1994 (or later ed.)
- W. Lotz, Architecture in Italy,1500-1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1995
- J. Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1990
- G. Morolli, Le membra degli ornamenti: sussidiario illustrato degli ordini architettonici con un glossario dei principali termini classici e classicistici, Alinea, Florence 1986.
Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Renaissance. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits (if it will be possible).
Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Cathedral, dome, bell tower, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Orsanmichele; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel, museum; Santa Maria Novella, church and museum; piazza and church of the Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai and loggia (façade); church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Pantheon; Santa Costanza (or the Lateran Baptistery); Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Villa della Farnesina (Via della Lungara); Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); St Peter's Basilica; Piazza del Campidoglio.
Assessment methods
Written exam concerning the first part of the course (from classical Greek architecture to Gothic architecture): students are required to answer open and closed questions. The second part of the course (Renaissance architecture) will be verified orally during the final exam.
For those who have not taken the written exam on the first part of the program, the exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Renaissance architecture).
The exam procedure demands that students provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Jupiter Anxur at Terracina, Hercules Victor at Tivoli, Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Walls of Royal and Republican Rome
5. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
6. Roman Forum
7. Imperial Fora
8. Trajan's Market
9. Arch of Titus
10. Arch of Septimius Severus
11. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
12. Basilica of Maxentius
13. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
14. Colosseum
15. Pantheon
16. Temples of Mars Ultor, Saturn, Apollo Sosianus and Apollo Palatinus
17. Domus Aurea
18. Domus Flavia
19. Baths of Titus
20. Baths of Diocletian
21. Hadrian's Villa
22. St Peter's Basilica
23. San Lorenzo, Milan
24. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople)
25. San Vitale, Ravenna
26. Palatine Chapel, Aachen
27. Cluny Abbey
28. St Mark's, Venice
29. Pisa Cathedral
30. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
31. Modena Cathedral
32. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
33. Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
34. San Nicola, Bari
35. Monreale Cathedral
36. Choir of the Basilica of Saint-Denis
37. Notre-Dame de Paris
38. Basilica of St Francis, Assisi
39. Siena Cathedral
40. Florence Cathedral
41. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
42. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
43. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
44. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
45. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
46. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
47. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
48. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
49. Pienza
50. Urbino
51. Ferrara
52. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
53. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
54. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
55. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
56. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
57. Sant'Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
58. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
59. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
60. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
61. New Sacristy, Florence
62. Laurentian Library, Florence
63. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
64. Medici villas
65. Villa Madama, Rome.