This module is not currently running in 2022 to 2023.
The module has been designed to introduce HPA students to the richness and variety of art produced in Rome over the last 2 millennia. Although it will focus most of its attention on one period – the Renaissance – its starting point will be in antique art, and it will also look forward to the Baroque in order to give students a sense of the longevity of artistic production in the city and the extent to which its artists and patrons looked back to the city's past achievements. The module will place great emphasis on study from original works of art and will be based around site-visits backed up by classroom discussion. The field is rich and extensive, and the module will focus on key, symptomatic episodes within the wider narrative.
Total Contact Hours: 44
Private Study Hours: 256
Total Study Hours: 300
Essay (5,000 words) – 80%
Presentation (30 minutes) – 20%
Chapman, H., T. Henry, C. Plazzotta, (2004-5). Raphael: from Urbino to Rome, exh. cat., London (National Gallery)
Henry, T. and P. Joannides, (2012-13). Late Raphael. Exhibition Catalogue, Madrid (Museo del Prado) and Paris (Musée du Louvre)
Hibbert, C. (1985). Rome. The Biography of a City, London: Viking
Lavin, I. (1982). Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts, New York and Oxford: OUP
Montagu, J. (1992). Roman Baroque Sculpture. The Industry of Art, New Haven & London: YUP
Wilde, J. (1978). Michelangelo, Oxford: OUP
Ed. Wittkower,, R., J. Montagu and J. Connors, (1999). Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 1: Early Baroque, New Haven & London (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of central trajectories and themes within the development of art in Rome from antiquity to the Baroque, with a principal concentration on the Renaissance;
- Demonstrate understanding of the major art-historical and critical paradigms in the scholarship on this field;
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the particular manifestation of artistic production during the period studied;
- Demonstrate skills of critical visual analysis through close study of works of art in the original, encountered in Roman sites and collections.
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