| : This course provides a panorama of Italian architectural theory and production in the 15th and 16th centuries within a broad geographical picture including Milan, Mantua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples and other Italian cities. The objective of the course is to insure knowledge of Renaissance architectural production, related historiography, contemporary debate and scholarship as well as to develop students’ analytical and research skills. The course’s reading materials are organized chronologically to facilitate the students’ approach to the field of architectural history, while a thematic approach will prevail in class, where notions of artistic training and workshop practice, techniques, spread of knowledge and models, relationship with the spectator, social life, etc., which will be considered in relation to specific case studies. |
