Early Renaissance in Italy FAH 31/131, Fall 2009 Mon/Wed 1:30‐2:45, Aidekman Arts Center 13 Professor Kimberley Skelton Office Hours: Wed, 3:00‐4:00, Art History Building Room 117 Email: [email protected] This course examines shifts in artistic as well as architectural theory and practice across early modern Italy. It begins in the early fifteenth century, as new political and philosophical changes were sparking a reconception of the individual’s place in the world, and ends with the Sack of Rome in 1527. Artistic and architectural change will be placed in an interdisciplinary context of social, political, religious and philosophical developments. Themes to be considered include: the rise of anthropocentrism, shifting relationships between private and public, humanist court culture, international circulation and regional reinterpretations of Classical Antiquity, new conceptions of the past, and the professionalization of artist and architect. Course Requirements Object Analysis Paper 15% Research Proposal 10% In‐class Midterm Exam 20% Final Research Paper 25% Take‐home Final Exam 20% Class Participation 10% Required Texts Patricia Fortini Brown, Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997). Ludwig Heydenreich, Architecture in Italy 1400‐1500 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). Loren Partridge, The Art of Renaissance Rome 1400‐1600 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996). A. Richard Turner, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art (London: Laurence King Publishing Limited, 1997). Additional readings are available on the Blackboard website. COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1: September 9 Introduction Charles Hope and Elizabeth McGrath, “Artists and Humanists,” in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, ed. Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 161‐188. Evelyn Welch, Art in Renaissance Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 9‐33. Week 2: September 14, 16 A Theocentric World Hans Belting, “The New Role of Narrative in Public Painting of the Trecento: Historia and Allegory,” in Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Herbert L. Kessler and Marianna Shreve Simpson, Studies in the History of Art 16 (1985), 151‐168. John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 112‐129. Anthropocentric Eyes Turner, 9‐21, 91‐115. Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. Cecil Grayson (New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1991), 37‐59. Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth‐Century Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 29‐40. Week 3: September 21, 23 Building Anthropocentrism Heydenreich, 13‐24. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997), 2‐32, 92‐95. Reinventing Civic Identity Turner, 40‐41, 51‐67. Excerpts by Leonardo Bruni, Giovanni Rucellai, and Lorenzo Ghiberti from Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art, ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassari and Arielle Saiber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 39‐43, 72‐76, 188‐191. Week 4: September 28, 30 The Authority of Tradition John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002), 220‐
227. Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Art and Culture in Renaissance Siena,” in Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420‐
1500, ed. Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), 33‐60. Private/Civic Boundaries Heydenreich, 34‐44. Turner, 122‐141. Mary Hollingsworth, Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 33‐47. Evelyn Welch, “Naming Names: The Transience of Individual Identity in Fifteenth‐Century Portraiture,” in The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance, ed. Nicholas Mann and Luke Syson (London: British Museum Press, 1998), 91‐104. Week 5: October 5, 7 Courtly Networks  Object Analysis Paper due Alison Cole, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 7‐15, 143‐169. Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier: The Singleton Translation, ed. Daniel Javitch (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002), 80‐94. Defining Political Boundaries Alison Cole, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 67‐91. Joanna Woods‐Marsden, “Piero della Francesca’s Ruler Portraits,” in The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca, ed. Jeryldene M. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 91‐114, 228‐236. Week 6: October 13, 14 Regional Lenses Brown, 9‐37, 83‐89, 91‐100. Heydenreich, 86‐101. Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 145‐148, 163‐179. Locality in International Networks Alison Cole, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 45‐65. 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 Renaissance Italy: 1250‐1500, ed. Charles M. Rosenberg (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1990), 11‐37. Week 7: October 19, 21 At Once Local and Universal: Papal Rome Heydenreich, 55‐73. Partridge, 9‐17, 109‐118. Roberto Salvini, “The Sistine Chapel: Ideology and Architecture,” Art History 2 (1980), 144‐157. Midterm Week 8: October 26, 28 Defining a Past Alison Cole, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 93‐117. John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002), 282‐
284. Evelyn S. Welch, Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 203‐
238, 313‐320. Constructing Present from Past Heydenreich, 49‐52, 120‐124. Nicholas Adams and Laurie Nussdorfer, “The Italian City 1400‐1600,” in The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, eds. H.A. Millon and V.M. Lampugnani (London, 1994), 203‐220. Alison Cole, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 119‐141. Mary Hollingsworth, Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 249‐254. Week 9: November 2, 4 Print and International Circulation  Research Proposal due David Landau and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print 1470‐1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 81‐102, 284‐298. The Professional Architect Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960), 3‐17. Sebastiano Serlio, Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, vol. 1 of 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 253‐255. Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing, trans. Sarah Benson (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001), 42‐71. Review: Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997), 2‐6. Week 10: November 9, 11 Through the Lens of Political Change Turner, 143‐167. Luca Landucci, “The Entry of Charles VIII, King of France, into Florence,” in Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art, ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassari and Arielle Saiber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 115‐122. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and trans. David Wootton (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, Inc., 1995), 77‐80. Building Autonomy Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500‐1600 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 11‐25. Raphael, “Letter to Leo X,” in A Chronology of Leonardo da Vinci’s Architectural Studies After 1500 (Geneva: E. Droz, 1962), 162‐170. Week 11: November 16, 18 Artistic Style and International Politics Partridge, 79‐91, 101‐107, 120‐131, 145‐159. Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn, Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael’s Julius II (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 42‐74. Internationalizing Local Identity Brown, 134‐167. Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500‐1600 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 83‐88. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 217‐
240. Deborah Howard, “Venice: Society and Culture, 1500‐1530,” in Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, eds. David Alan Brown and Sylvia Ferino‐Pagden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 1‐10. Week 12: November 23, 25 Design Exchanges: Italy and the North  Rough Draft of Final Paper due for FAH 131 students, Optional Outline of Final Paper due for FAH 31 students Anthony Blunt, Art and Architecture in France 1500‐1700 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1‐39. Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, trans. George Bull (New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998), 250‐276. No class Week 13: November 30, December 2 A European Leisured Elite Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500‐1600 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 29‐31, 45‐54. Galeazzo Maria Sforza, “The Delights of the Medici Villa in Careggi,” Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art, ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassari and Arielle Saiber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 322‐324. James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990), 9‐34. John Shearman, “A Functional Interpretation of Villa Madama,” Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 20 (1983), 313‐327. Skill as Design Criterion Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500‐1600 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 76‐82, 89‐94. John Shearman, Mannerism (New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990), 15‐22, 39‐48, 70‐79. Week 14: December 7, 9 Artistic Branding as Status Symbol Partridge, 92‐95. John Shearman, Mannerism (New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990), 49‐70. New Political and Visual Worlds  Final Paper due Partridge, 95‐101, 133‐136. Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture in Italy 1500‐1600 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 107‐120, 147‐
157. **Wednesday, December 16: Take‐home Final Exam due via email**