AHT2130 · Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context

Overview

This unit is only offered in Prato (Italy). This unit focuses on the art and architecture of early modern Italy. Key examples of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, urbanism and landscape design are considered on site and in context. The principles of early modern Italian art and architectural theory are introduced, from the Renaissance emulation of Classical culture to the Baroque preoccupation with spectacle. The unit also emphasises the multiple ways in which historical viewers experienced art: as aesthetic object, as narrative, as craft, as divine presence, and as talisman.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify the main characteristics of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque art and architecture;
2. Understand the multiple historical, cultural, social and physical contexts of Italian art and architecture;
3. Understand the principles of historical art and architectural theory, as well as their critical reception;
4. Engage in on site analyses of works of visual art and architecture;
5. Demonstrate your awareness of the historical precedents for, and dimensions of, your own practice.

Workload

This unit is offered in Prato in intensive mode.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.