HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- RENATA SAMPERI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
Training objectives
- Knowledge.
The course aims to provide a historical knowledge and a study methodology for architecture, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, as well as the basic knowledge for the historical-critical analysis of modern art, with particular regard to the development process of the works, in their historical and cultural context. The different periods will be dealt with in a general way through connecting themes. Within this framework, significant themes, figures, works, and contexts will be selected for each period. Particular attention will be given to the building process, from the commissioning to planning and construction, by considering architecture in a broader physical, historical, and cultural context, referring to critical and theoretical ideas connected to architectural practice.
Skills.
The course aims to provide students with an ability to analyze, understand, and assess past architecture and art development process, by considering different historical-critical points of view and using drawing as the architect’s primary operative and cognitive tool. Prerequisites
- The exam can be taken by those who have passed the exam of History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture and acquired a sufficient skill in the analysis of architectural language, with particular regard to the topic of architectural orders. In addition, a knowledge, even general, of the historical and geographical context of the topics considered in the syllabus is necessary.
Course programme
- The course consists of an Architectural History module (70 hours) and an Art History module (20 hours).
Architectural History module:
Fifteenth century architecture: Humanism and the Renaissance; Filippo Brunelleschi and the invention of a new architecture; Leon Battista Alberti as a humanist and as an architect; Florence and Tuscany; the Ducal Palace of Urbino and Francesco di Giorgio Martini as an architect; Churches and palaces in Rome; Ferrara and the “addizione erculea”; the experiences in Lombardy and Venice.
Sixteenth century architecture: Bramante and the innovation of Renaissance architecture; Raphael; Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane; Baldassarre Peruzzi; Giulio Romano; Sebastiano Serlio; Michelangelo; Jacopo Sansovino in Venice and Veneto; Michele Sanmicheli in Verona; Pirro Ligorio; Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola; Andrea Palladio; the Tuscany of the Medici; Galeazzo Alessi in Genoa and Milan; Pelelgrino Tibaldi; the Sixtus V’s plan and Domenico Fontana; hints to European experiences.
Seventeenth and eighteenth century architecture: Carlo Maderno; Gianlorenzo Bernini; Pietro da Cortona; Francesco Borromini; architectural currents of high Baroque Rome; Baldassarre Longhena at Venice; architecture in Piedmont; eighteenth century architecture in Rome; Luigi Vanvitelli; Giovan Battista Piranesi.
Art History module:
Masaccio; Gentile da Fabriano; Donatello; Beato Angelico; Piero della Francesca; Antonello da Messina; Mantegna; Botticelli; Leonardo; Raffaello; Michelangelo; Carracci; Bernini; Caravaggio. Didactic methods
- The didactic organization provides for the giving of classroom and field lessons. During class time and field trips, students will be asked to make annotated sketches of the studied architectural works. Drawings must be recorded using plain paper sketchbooks. Additionally, the course includes seminar activities for the presentation of short research projects to be carried out optionally by the students on specific architectural subjects.
Learning assessment procedures
- The achievement of the training objectives mentioned above will be verified through one oral exam pertaining to the topics of both modules.
As for the Architectural History module, the positive outcome of the research project will exonerate the student from the study of a portion of the topics of the syllabus and will be considered as part of the final assessment.
During the interview, the candidate is required to talk about the topics of the syllabus and about a theme studied through the supplemental readings suggested throughout the course. The carrying out of sketches of the most significant works will be also required during the exam. Additionally,
the students’ sketchbooks must be submitted and will be discussed and assessed. Reference texts
- - F.P. FIORE (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il Quattrocento, Milano, Electa 1998.
- A. BRUSCHI (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il primo Cinquecento, Milano, Electa 2002.
- R. WITTKOWER, Arte e architettura in Italia 1600-1750, Torino, Einaudi 1972.
- Storia dell’arte italiana, diretta da C. Bertelli, G. Briganti, A. Giuliano, Electa-Mondadori 1990-1991, volume II e volume III.
Additional supplemental readings will be suggested throughout the course.
Particular attention to the topics contained in the syllabus should be given in the reading of the indicated texts.
