Italian Renaissance Painting: The Sixteenth Century

Professor David Rosand

Autumn 2000
Monday and Wednesday, 10:35-11:50
614 Schermerhorn Hall
Art History V3437x

Office: 906 Schermerhorn Hall
Hours: Tuesday, 3-5, and by appointment
Tel.: 854-4502
e-mail: dr17@columbia.edu


Style and meaning in painting of the High and Late Renaissance, with attention to the figure of the artist, technique and studio practice, Renaissance art theory and the development of a critical vocabulary, as well as to the religious, social, and political contexts of artistic production. Emphasis on major figures in Florence, Rome, and Venice--especially Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto.

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Introduction: Pictorial styles, media, and technique, historiographic assumptions and labels
(High Renaissance and Mannerism),
historical and social conditions of production


 

(midterm)


Venice: Giorgione, oil painting, pastoral landscape

Leonardo da Vinci

  Titian: Early altarpieces, allegory and mythology
Republican Florence: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael   The North Italian courts: Giulio Romano, Correggio, Parmigianino
Rome of Pope Julius II  
Mannerism and Maniera: Critical concepts and historiographic problems; Bronzino, Salviati, Vasari
Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel ceiling  
Michelangelo: The Last Judgment and the Pauline Chapel

Raphael: The Vatican Stanze


  Art and the Council of Trent

Painting in Florence: Fra Bartolommeo, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino
 
Titian: Mythological poesie, late religious work
  Venetian painting in the later 16th century: Tintoretto, Veronese, Bassano

Course requirements:

In addition to a midterm and a final examination, a short paper (approximately 1250 words) will be assigned: an analytic reading of a single painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Collection. (Graduate students taking the course for E-credit are not expected to sit for the exams but will write an essay on a topic to be chosen in consultation with the instructor.)

For undergraduates there will be regularly scheduled museum visits and discussion sections--an opportunity for reviewing, complementing, and supplementing the material of the lectures.
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