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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History of Art
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday, on appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Course/Module description:
During 13th-15th centuries Florence was the arena of intensive growth of wealth, industry, science and technology, that was accompanied by the emergence of the Republic, of the civic society and by its development through a stormy struggle of groups and parties. All this couldn’t but influence the revolutionary development of the urban structure and of architecture as a means of expression of new identities and ideas in the city. During the course we will inquire first in the development of the urban environment in these centuries. We will learn about the city’s real and mythical classical past, as well as about the development of the republican institutions, while tracing the expression of this history in the city’s conspicuous buildings and urban landscape. We will scrutinize the main architectural structures, the churches and palaces of the city and follow the development of the new Renaissance language of architecture on the basis of the classical, Romanesque and Gothic styles. The joint emphasis on the building techniques and architectural aesthetics will help us throw light on the works of Arnolfo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Alberti and Sangallo.
Course/Module aims:
The aim of the course is to help students to appreciate the spell of Renaissance architecture and to be able to connect architectural language with the social and cultural history
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
On the completion of the course the students will have the first-hand knowledge of the city of Florence with its main centers,will be able to recognize and identify the styles, the techniques and the styles of Florentine architecture, to see and analyze medieval and Renaissance art art in context.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
I will assign reading for most of the lessons, and give questions for class discussions of the material in advance.
Course/Module Content:
The tentative plan of the course:
1. Florence: landscape and history
2. Architectural languages: Classical.
3. Architectural languages: Romanesque and Gothic
4. Urban structure of Florence in classical and medieval times
5. The two central urban spaces and their history: Republican center and buildings, religious center and its buildings.
6. Mendicant orders and their churches
7. Aesthetic choices in the early 15th century and the beginning of the Renaissance.
8. Cosimo Medici patronage: Brunelleschi and Donatello.
9. Brunelleschi, Michelozzo and architecture all’antica
10. Leon Battista Alberti, architectural treatise and the end of the Gothic
11. Alberti as architect
12. Lorenzo de’ Medici patronage: Giuliano da Sangallo
13. Giuliano da Sangallo and the new culture of architectural drawing
14. Architecture in 15th century painting
Required Reading:
Mandatory reading for each lesson will be placed on the Moodle website
Additional Reading Material:
Alberti, Leon Battista, On the art of building in ten books, Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press ; 1992, c1988
Ames Lewis, Francis, ed. Florence. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Brucker, Gene, Renaissance Florence, New York, J. Wiley and sons, 1969
Goldhwaite, Richard A. The Building of Renaissance Florence, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Goy, Richard J. Florence: The City and its Architecture, London, Phaidon, 2002
Il Villani illustrato : Firenze e l'Italia medievale nelle 253 immagini del ms. Chigiano L VIII 296 della Biblioteca Vaticana, Firenze, 2005.
Kent, Dale V., Cosimo de’ Medici and the Florentine Renaissance, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000.
Martucci, Roberto, Florence: Guide to the Principal Buildings, Venice, 1997
Saalman, Howard, Filippo Brunelleschi: the Buildings. Pennsylvania State University press, 1993.
Summerson, John, The classical language of architecture, London, Methuen 1964
Trachtenberg, Marvin, Building-in-time : from Giotto to Alberti and modern oblivion, New Haven: Yale University Press ; c2010
Verdon, Timoty and Henderson, John, eds. Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1990.
White, John, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1987.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 15 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 15 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
The Hebrew University
Deparmtent of Art History
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