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History of Art courses

History of art courses are of 10 hours and are done over a period of either 2 or 4 weeks. They include one-to-one classroom lessons with slides, books and/or other printed material, as well as guided visits to specific places of interest in the city and to its works of art. For students with no previous experience there will be a two hour introductory lesson.

The lessons are in Italian and teachers have a degree in art history with teaching experience, and are official tour guides authorized by the town of Florence.

 

Introduction to history of art

2 hours of one to one classroom lessons

Introductory lesson obligatory for those with no previous experience. Entrance fees to museums are not included in the price.

• From the ancient world to contemporary times, analysis of the works of art which reflect the time in which they were made: a study of how every work of art reflects the needs of the moment in which it was produced as well as the elite for whom it was made.
• Introduction to the figure of the artist and how their social position changed from simple artisan to intellect.
• How to read a work of art: iconographical and iconological interpretation.
  

 

SA1 From the Middle ages to the early Renaissance

8 hours of one to one classroom lessons and 2 guided visits. Cost of total museum entrance approximately € 4.

• Historical introduction to the middle ages.
• Medieval man.
• Great changes which occur in society: the passage from rural life to urbanization. The great need for spirituality, the conception of the world and the hereafter during this time.
• The construction of the cathedrals.
• The mendicant orders.
• Public buildings.
• Mercantile relations with the Arab world.
• Historic, social, economical, and philosophical changes that lead to the birth of new man.
• Giotto, Cosimo il Vecchio, Brunellesci, Donatello, Masaccio and the workshop of Ghiberti.

 

SA2 From early Renaissance to late Renaissance

6 hours of one to one classroom lessons and 4 guided visits. Cost of total museum entrance approximately € 20.

• The different artistic languages that characterize the Florentine scene.
• The artists who follow the most radical and innovative movement... that of Masaccio, Brunelleschi and Donatello.
• The members of a traditional movement of the late 1400’s and the movement of e moderate artists, or those who approached innovation cautiously.
• The other pole of the artistic renewal.... The Flemish and their renaissance.
• The other centers of the Italian Renaissance amongst which Urbino and Piero della Francesca.
• The artistic scene in Florence at the end of the 1500’s.
• The great workshops: those of Verrocchio, of the Pollaiolos and of the della Robbias.
• The art of Botticelli, an interpreter of the culture and refined renaissance and an expression of a society that was by then in decline --- and that saw in Lorenzo il Magnifico its political and intellectual representative.
  

 

SA3 The Cinquecento

6 hours of one to one classroom lessons and 4 guided visits. Cost of total museum entrance approximately € 23.

• Painting in Venice: the affirmation of ‘tonal’ painting.
• Giorgione and Titian and the alternative choices of Sebastiano del Piombo, the artist who united the innovations of of Giorgione and Titian’s painting with the the reflection on ancient art.
• Painting in Venice during the second half of the Cinquecento: Bassano, Tintoretto, Veronese.
• Leonardo da Vinci: from Florentine beginnings to the Milan season.
• Leonardo, man of science who expresses the most ancient values of humanism.
• Michelangelo, from Florentine beginnings to the great season in Rome.
• Michelangelo: painter, sculptor, architect and poet.
• The great works of Michelangelo for the Medici.
• Raffaello, from the beginnings in the workshop of Perugino to the stay in Florence and to the great season in Rome.
  

 

SA4 Mannerist Art.

4 hours of one to one classroom lessons and 6 guided visits. Cost of total museum entrance approximately € 18.

• The great inheritance of Raffaello, Michelangelo and Leonardo.
• The diffusion of a classical movement and of a mannerist one.
• The great characters ... of Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Daniele da Volerra, Andrea del Sarto.
• Refined and cultured art at the court of Cosimo de Medici and in the other European courts.
• Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza Signoria: Gianbologna, Cellini and Ammanati.
• Boboli Gardens: extraordinary example of the Italian garden, result of a refined and intellectual society as was that of the second half of the Cinquecento.
  

 

SA5 The Seicento

6 hours of one to one classroom lessons and 4 guided visits. Cost of total museum entrance approximately € 16.

• Rome at the beginning of the Seicento: capital of the catholic restoration.
• The protagonists of the renovation of painting in Rome: Caravaggio, from the Lombard beginnings to the season in Rome, Caracci, from the Academy in Bologna to Rome.
• Genre Painting. the naturalist movement and the classical movement.
• Caravaggio and his influence.
• The great Baroque art of Rome and the painting of the 17th century in the rest of Europe: Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Rubens...
• Florentine painting of the 17th century.
  

 

Thematic courses

5 hours (covering different periods of history of art) of one to one classroom lessons and 4 guided visits.

Classroom lessons will range from one to one and a half hours, according to the subject matter.

Topics

1. The Medici: the story of a dynasty that made art into an instrument of power . Visit to Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Pitti and Palazzo Vecchio.
2. Potions and Poisons: alchemy and art in Florence of the past. Visit to the Farmacia di Santa Maria Novella and to the study of Francesco I in Palazzo Vecchio a place of wonder, and a visit to the Opificio delle pietre dure – Workshop of semi-precious stones.
3. The history and evolution of costume. Visit to the costume gallery of Palazzo Pitti.
4. The history and evolution of footwear . Visit to the Ferragamo museum .
5. History of cookery seen through painting. Preparation of a typical Florentine dish. Visit to the market of San Lorenzo and or to the historic shop Pegna.
6. History of the Florentine Renaissance: What life was like in the city of Humanism. Visit to the Davanzati museum and to the Horne museum.
7. Painting on gold background and its history. Visit to a workshop that does gold leaf work.
8. History of Sculpture. Visit to the Bargello Museum and to the Marino Marini museum.
9. History of fresco and of the great cycles of frescoes present in Florence. Visit to the church of Santa Maria Novella and to the church of Santa Trinita.

It is also possible to request single subject lessons (5 hours) on: Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and others.

 

Latin language course

Partecipants are required to have an intermediate level of Italian. (B1 of CEFR- Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Two weeks course

2 hour lessons, three times per week.Total 12 hours.

• Relationship between the Italian and Latin languages: origins, transformations.
• The noun and its logical functions; the 4 declinations.
• The verb: introduction.
• The determiners.
• The Latin sentence.
• Great Latin authors: Cesar and Cicero. Their period and their prose.

Four weeks course

2 hour lessons, three times per week. Total 24 hours.

• Relationship between the Italian and Latin languages: origins, transformations.
• The noun and its logical functions; the 4 declinations.
• The adjective and the pronoun.
• The verb: introduction.
• The verbs Sum e Habeo.
• Transitive e intransitive verbs.
• Active and passive forms of the verb.
• The determiners.
• Invariable parts of the sentence.
• The Latin sentence.
• Great Latin authors: Cesar, Cicero and Livy. Their period and their prose.
• Great Latin poets: Catullus and Horatio . Their period and their poems.
  

 

Prices 2011

For further information write to info@centromachiavelli.it

 

Start courses

January	3, 17, 31
February	14, 28
March	14, 28
April	11, 26
May	9, 23
June	6, 20
July	4, 18
August	1, 16, 29
September	12, 26
October	10, 24
November	7, 21
December	5