Renaissance Rome and Its Monuments

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Taught as AH 294 at host institution. This course will provide the student with a clear grasp of the Renaissance city and the artwork produced in Rome from the end of the Great Schism (1417) to the beginning of the Council of Trent (1545). The majority of contact hours will be on-site and therefore a primary aim of this course is to develop skills of visual analysis. In-class lectures will introduce historical context and theory allowing the student to understand artworks studied conceptually and place commissions of painting and sculpture within a socio-historic framework. Ultimately, the student will become intimately acquainted with the topography, urban makeup and history of the city and its monuments; and will acquire the theoretical tools needed to examine, evaluate and critically assess city form, design and architecture.