Origins of the Italian Renaissance
$300.00
8 Week Online Seminar, Wednesday Evenings, February 2- March 23, 4:00-5:30 PM EST (NYC)/10:00-11:30 (Rome)
This is Part 1 of a Two Part Course-- although it can be taken separately as well.
What prompted the David? What inspired Botticelli’s Venus? How did the Duomo come into existence— and why? What stepping stones brought them from the decorative, spiritual abstraction of the late medieval period, to the dynamic portrayal of the human form in the High Renaissance?
In this eight week class, we trace the beginning germinations of the Renaissance, from the gilded Trecento artists of Siena to the revival of the human form through Donatello, Giotto and Masaccio, the flowering of grace in artists like Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, and Botticelli, and the pursuit of the embodied divine by artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo.
In the footsteps of these artists, journey with me as I travel through Florence, Siena, Padua, Assisi, Arezzo, and Rome-- and inquire of their churches, monuments, and frescoes the secrets of their makers.
Beyond an art history text, we will encounter the artwork and the artists on their terms, in their territory, and ponder the historical context, the philosophy, and the technical pursuits that charged the Renaissance into being.
Outline of Course:
Week 1- Stirrings of Siena: A Break from the "Greek"
Week 2- Rediscovery of Human Form: Pisano, Donatello, Ghiberti
Week 3- Genius of Giotto: A Trip to Padova and Assisi
Week 4- The Two Friars from Florence: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi
Week 5- Journeys into Perspective: Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca
Week 6- Embodied Might: The Creation of the Duomo and Renaissance Cathedrals
Week 7- The Three Graces: Botticelli and His Contemporaries
Week 8- Leonardo and the Young Michelangelo: the Quest for the Ideal
This class is ideal for artists, art students, art lovers, high school students, and anyone who desires to cultivate wonder and encounter beauty.
***Sign up for both classes by Feb. 1, and get $100 off. Use code, "newyear" at checkout. ***
This is Part 1 of a Two Part Course-- although it can be taken separately as well.
What prompted the David? What inspired Botticelli’s Venus? How did the Duomo come into existence— and why? What stepping stones brought them from the decorative, spiritual abstraction of the late medieval period, to the dynamic portrayal of the human form in the High Renaissance?
In this eight week class, we trace the beginning germinations of the Renaissance, from the gilded Trecento artists of Siena to the revival of the human form through Donatello, Giotto and Masaccio, the flowering of grace in artists like Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, and Botticelli, and the pursuit of the embodied divine by artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo.
In the footsteps of these artists, journey with me as I travel through Florence, Siena, Padua, Assisi, Arezzo, and Rome-- and inquire of their churches, monuments, and frescoes the secrets of their makers.
Beyond an art history text, we will encounter the artwork and the artists on their terms, in their territory, and ponder the historical context, the philosophy, and the technical pursuits that charged the Renaissance into being.
Outline of Course:
Week 1- Stirrings of Siena: A Break from the "Greek"
Week 2- Rediscovery of Human Form: Pisano, Donatello, Ghiberti
Week 3- Genius of Giotto: A Trip to Padova and Assisi
Week 4- The Two Friars from Florence: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi
Week 5- Journeys into Perspective: Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca
Week 6- Embodied Might: The Creation of the Duomo and Renaissance Cathedrals
Week 7- The Three Graces: Botticelli and His Contemporaries
Week 8- Leonardo and the Young Michelangelo: the Quest for the Ideal
This class is ideal for artists, art students, art lovers, high school students, and anyone who desires to cultivate wonder and encounter beauty.
***Sign up for both classes by Feb. 1, and get $100 off. Use code, "newyear" at checkout. ***
The Birth of the Baroque
$300.00
8 Week Online Seminar, Wednesday Evenings, April 20- June 8, 4:00-5:30 PM EST (NYC)/10:00-11:30 (Rome)
This is Part 2 of a Two Part Course-- although it can be taken separately as well.
Did the idealism of the Renaissance, the youthful urge to know oneself and to make oneself known, to delight in the knowledge and pleasure of human potential-- die by the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, and the European conflict that followed? Did "reality" reassert itself-- and wipe away the unsubstantiated optimism of the Florentines?
Was the Renaissance refuted, and what followed in its place?
In this second class, "The Birth of the Baroque," we will show how the Florentine idealism did not perish, but matured; The Florentine Renaissance of Line, Symmetry, and Reason migrated to Rome, and Venice, and became a Renaissance of visual and emotive truth, conveyed through tonal drama. A marriage of imagination and observation, we see the Renaissance neoplatonic ideals converted into a living encounter-- a discovery of beauty in shadows, and the revelation of truth in light.
Great and quiet dramas, depositions and portraits, gilded basilicas and medusas: follow me out of Florence, and into the landscapes of Renaissance Venice and Baroque Rome-- to discover the mode, methodology, and meaning of painting and art that would rule over Europe for the next several hundred years.
Course Outline:
Week 1: Michelangelo: In Stone and On Ceilings
Week 2: Imitations and Intonations: Raphael in Rome
Week 3: Pontormo and the Mannerists: The Abstraction and Form of Color
Week 4: Northern Light: Venice and Bellini's Poetic Observation
Week 5: Giorgione and the Young Titian
Week 6: Veronese's Perspective: The Angle of a Narrative
Week 7: Titian, Tintoretto, Tenebrism
Week 8: Ecstasy, Desire, and Fury: Caravaggio and Bernini
This class is ideal for artists, art students, art lovers, high school students, and anyone who desires to cultivate wonder and encounter beauty.
***Sign up for both classes by Feb. 1, and get $100 off. Use code, "newyear" at checkout. ***
This is Part 2 of a Two Part Course-- although it can be taken separately as well.
Did the idealism of the Renaissance, the youthful urge to know oneself and to make oneself known, to delight in the knowledge and pleasure of human potential-- die by the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, and the European conflict that followed? Did "reality" reassert itself-- and wipe away the unsubstantiated optimism of the Florentines?
Was the Renaissance refuted, and what followed in its place?
In this second class, "The Birth of the Baroque," we will show how the Florentine idealism did not perish, but matured; The Florentine Renaissance of Line, Symmetry, and Reason migrated to Rome, and Venice, and became a Renaissance of visual and emotive truth, conveyed through tonal drama. A marriage of imagination and observation, we see the Renaissance neoplatonic ideals converted into a living encounter-- a discovery of beauty in shadows, and the revelation of truth in light.
Great and quiet dramas, depositions and portraits, gilded basilicas and medusas: follow me out of Florence, and into the landscapes of Renaissance Venice and Baroque Rome-- to discover the mode, methodology, and meaning of painting and art that would rule over Europe for the next several hundred years.
Course Outline:
Week 1: Michelangelo: In Stone and On Ceilings
Week 2: Imitations and Intonations: Raphael in Rome
Week 3: Pontormo and the Mannerists: The Abstraction and Form of Color
Week 4: Northern Light: Venice and Bellini's Poetic Observation
Week 5: Giorgione and the Young Titian
Week 6: Veronese's Perspective: The Angle of a Narrative
Week 7: Titian, Tintoretto, Tenebrism
Week 8: Ecstasy, Desire, and Fury: Caravaggio and Bernini
This class is ideal for artists, art students, art lovers, high school students, and anyone who desires to cultivate wonder and encounter beauty.
***Sign up for both classes by Feb. 1, and get $100 off. Use code, "newyear" at checkout. ***
