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JULY

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the spectacular achievements of Florentine Renaissance artists from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, including Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Lectures and on-site visits to museums, churches and palaces identify and analyse the individual styles of the great Florentine artists, relate their work to the social, religious, philosophical, political and cultural contexts of the time, and chart the evolution of Florentine society from the times of the Commune to the oligarchic government of the early Quattrocento, and onward still to the rule of the Medici Princes. Sessions are held on weekday afternoons, with the occasional morning or Saturday session to accommodate limited opening times at specific sites. Students may enrol for the full month, by week or by individual session. For more information:

History of Art Department [email protected] +39 05526778268 The British Institute of Florence Lungarno Guicciardini 9, Firenze 50125, Italia www.britishinstitute.it

FLORENCE ART IN RENAISSANCE

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SAMPLE PROGRAMME* JULY ART IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE

WEEK I WEEK II WEEK III WEEK IV

Monday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Introductory lecture Man: the Measure of all things

Monday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit The church of Orsanmichele

Monday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Lecture Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael

Monday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit Piety, Penance and Charity in Renaissance Florence

Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Lecture Techniques and materials Part I: Tempera and fresco painting

Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Lecture Techniques and materials Part II: Marble and bronze sculpture

Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Workshop Modelling and the Measurement of Man

Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit Galleria dell’Accademia

Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit The church of Santa Croce

Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit The church of Santa Maria Novella

Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit Galleria degli Uffizi

Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit Galleria Palatina

Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Workshop Art conservation: the case of Giotto’s Ognissanti Crucifix

Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit The church of San Lorenzo

Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Lecture The “strangeness and fanciful new maniera” of Jacopo Pontormo

Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Lecture Medici “Matronage” from Lucrezia Tornabuoni to Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici

Friday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit The Brancacci Chapel at Santa Maria del Carmine

Saturday 10:00 - 11:30 am Visit Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Friday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Workshop Research and Revelations in the Florentine State Archive

Friday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Visit Palazzo Vecchio: Palace of Priors and Princes

* This is a sample programme reflecting lectures and visits regularly featured on this course. The final programme will be distributed to students at the first meeting.

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Our courses focus on Italian Renaissance art, with an emphasis on the city of Florence. Artists are never examined in isolation but are firmly placed in their social, political, religious and historical context. As well as learning to identify specific styles, subjects and symbols, emphasis is given to the techniques and materials of Renaissance art. Each course comprises a combination of interactive, illustrated lectures, as well as visits to key sites led by members of the History of Art Teaching Team, and professional workshops in which students meet specialists in the various fields of artistic and cultural preservation. Sessions are held on weekday afternoons, with the occasional Saturday session to accommodate limited opening times at specific sites. Sessions normally last 90 minutes, with lectures being held in the Harold Acton Library, visits beginning directly on site at designated meeting points, and technical art history workshops alternating between the Library and professional work sites in Florence. Our lecturers offer a spectrum of expertise and individual approaches to teaching, ensuring that all course meetings are informal, relaxed, engaging and participatory. Our courses are accessible to those coming to the subject with no previous background in History of Art, but are at the same time pitched at a level that will engage all those who are already familiar with the subject. It is possible to take the courses by week or even by session, and all month-long courses may be combined with an Italian Language course of any level.

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What are the most valuable characteristics of our courses?

o Seeing artworks first hand, with an expert to help take you

through the experience.

B.A. – England

o The diversity of the topics and the standard of discussion.

C.G. – England

What are the most valuable characteristics of our lecturers?

o Easy to listen to with a quick pace and interesting delivery. Also

very friendly and approachable which was great for me as I have

never studied History of Art before.

K.N. – England

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