BOOKS:

John Paoletti and Gary Radke, Art in The Italian Renaissance
A somewhat new approach to the teaching of Italian art. The text is clear, the monuments chosen are interesting, the breadth and distribution of choices are novel. For the book to claim that there was no Renaissance before the sixteenth century and to rarely if ever mention the word humanism makes the title a bit odd. Indeed it is difficult to understand how the centuries differ.
Also what does life-like mean to the authors. Looks real in detail, real in emotion, spatially convincing? This I think has more to do with the conceptual paucity in Renaissance art studies than with the authors' malevolent intentions. And chronology can be limiting, even tyrannical when trying to grasp the intricacies of historical consciousness. Still better than the alternatives. (Hereafter referred to as REN. ART)

Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting.
The most intriguing of the early treatises on art, a polemic on the "new" Florentine painting.

Michael Baxandal, Giotto and the Orators:
the first book to inspect the rhetoric of Alberti and re/de-construct it for a modern audience.

Recommended and On Reserve:

Donna K. Reid, Thinking and Writing About Art History. In the spirit of many a sixteenth century treatise a how-to book on art historical studies
Frederick Hartt and David Watkins, A History of Italian Renaissance Art -
a biographical approach.
Eugenio Garin, Renaissance Characters - articles by major scholars on types and individuals that gave the Italian Renaissance a particular flavour.
Alistair Smart, The Dawn of Italian Painting - slightly dated, but a first arte contextual history.
John Stephens, The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation. All the intellectual background one needs to know.

UNIT 1 - THIS PARTICULAR HISTORY

REN. ART. - 3-41.

Class Scheduling
Objects and Interpretations? - Biographies, Chronologies, Texts, Case Studies.
Who was an artist, a patron, a work of art?
Was there a Renaissance?
What does it have to do with humanism?

Erwin Panofsky, "Renaissance and Renascenses" and Joan Kelley-Gadol, "Did Women have a Renaissance."
On Panofsky: Erwin Panofsky and the renascence of the Renaissance., By: Landauer, Carl, Renaissance Quarterly, 19940601, Vol.
47, Issue 2.

UNIT I I - City States, the Mendicants, The Papacy.

REN. ART. - 44 - 79

Urban development in Italy - San Gimingnano, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Rome.

Nicola Pisano, Pulpit, Baptistery, Pisa, c. 1260.
" " Siena Cathedral, c.1265
Giovanni Pisano, Pulpit, San Andrea, Pistoia, 1298-1301.
Facade, Siena Cathedral, 1284-99

Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi, c. 1240
Bonaventure Berlinghero. Altarpiece of St. Francis, 1235
Life of Saint Francis, early fourteenth century, Upper Church, Basilica of San Francesco.
"St. Francis Praying Before the Cross at San Damiano, St. Francis Renounces His Worldly Goods, the Dream of Innocent III."
Texts: "St. Francis and the Christ Child."

Arnolfo di Cambio, Nave and Choir, Santa Croce, b. 1294.
Palazzo dei Priori (now known as Palazzo Vecchio), 1299-1310.
...with Francesco Talenti, Nave and Choir of Cathedral of Florence (Duomo), c.
1296.
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, begun 1298
Doge's Palace, Venice, 1340-1438
Castel Nuovo, Naples.
Texts: "The Image as Document" p.47

Cimabue, Maesta, Santa Trinita, Florence, now in Uffizi, 1280
Duccio, Maesta known as Rucellai Madonna, c. 1285, Church of Santa Maria Novella, now Uffizi, Florence (hereafter all works are in Florence unless otherwise noted.)

Master Cosmatus, Sancta Sanctorum, Lateran Palace, comm. Pope Nicolas III,
1278.
Arnolfo di Cambio, Baladchin, Santa Maria in Trastevere, comm. 1293.
Pietro Cavallini, Last Judgement, " , 1290

UNIT III - Innovations (Giotto) and Traditions, 1300-40

REN.ART, 81-121
REC. Stephens, 3-55.

Giotto di Bondone, Frescoes, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, c. 1305.
"Expulsion of Joachim, Meeting At The Golden Gate, Presentation in the Temple, Lamentation, Pentecost."
"The Life of St. Francis" Bardi Chapel, built. 1294, decorated 1320-7?
Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna, Uffizi, 1305-1310.

Taddeo Gaddi, Last Supper, Tree of Life, and Four Miracle Scenes, refectory of
Santa Croce, Florence, c. 1330-40 comm. by Mona Vaggia Manfredi

Duccio, 'Maesta', Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, 1308 - 1311.
"Entry Into Jerusalem, Crucifixion, Road to Emmaus."

Text: "The Procession of the Maesta"

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good and Bad Government and Effects of Good Government in the Countryside, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, 1338-9.
"Contemporary Scene: Art and Violence" - cf. here education and justice.

Pietro Lorenzetti, Birth of the Virgin, for the Duomo, Siena, 1335-42
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation with Two Saints. for the Duomo Siena, Uffizi, 1333.

Simone Martini, Altarpiece of St. Louis of Toulouse, c. 1319 , comm. from Robert of Anjou.
Gagliardo Primario?, Church of Santa Chiara, comm. by Franciscans and Sanja of Majorca, Naples, 1310.

Tower of San Gottardo, Milano, after 1330.

Text: "The Praise of Magnificence"

Laura Jacobus, Giotto's Annunciation

Andrea Bolland "Vergerio, Petrarch and Cennini on Imitation"

UNIT IV - AESTHETICS, FAITH, AND THE BLACK DEATH

REN. ART, 123- 155

Pala D'Oro. restored and embellished for St. Mark's Venice by Andrea Dandolo, 1345.
Paolo Veneziano, Rediscovery of the Relic of St. Mark, 1345 cover for Pala D'Oro.

Triumph of Death and Last Judgement, Camposanto, Pisa, 1330's
Andrea di Cione called Orcagna, The Strozzi Altarpiece, Strozzi Chapel, St, Maria Novella, 1354-7

Andrea da Firenze, Apotheosis of St, Thomas, Way of Salvation (Triumph of the Church,) Guidalotti Chapel Chapter House of Santa Maria Novella called Spanish Chapel, 1348-55.

UNIT V- THE COURT AND THE STATE - ARCHITECTURE AND HUMANISM.

REN. ART, 157-213
Andre Chastel, "The Artist, " and Margaret King " The Woman in the Renaissance," in Eugenio Garin, Renaissance Characters, on reserve.
For more extensive discussion, see John Stephens, The Italian Renaissance,
78 - 109.

Simone da Orsenigo and Bonino da Campione, Milan Cathedral, begun 1386.
Giovannino dei Grassi, The Visconti Hours, tempera and gold on parchment, c.1395.
"Representations of the Twelve Months" Castello di Buonconsiglio, Trento, 1397 - 1407.

Ca D'Oro (Palazzo Contarini) Venice, 1421-1437

Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome, Cathedral of Florence, 1420-1436.
Ospedale degl'Innocenti, Piazza della Santa Annunziata, 1419.
San Lorenzo, Old Sacristy, 1421 - 28, choir and transept, begun c. 1425, nave designed 1434.

Michelozzo de Bartolommeo, Palazzo Medici (later Medici Riccardi), b. 1445.

Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Issac, Bargello, 1402-03.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Issac, Bargello, 1402-03.
North Doors, Baptistery, 1403-24.
"Annunciation" 1407 and Flagellation, 1416-19.
St. Matthew and Tabenacle, Orsanmichele, 1419-1422.
East Doors, Baptistery, 1425-1452.

Donatello, St. George, originally Orsanmichele, now Bargello, 1415-17.
St George and The Dragon, relief, " " , c. 1417.
Habakkuk(IL Zuccone), Campanile of Cathedral, 1427-36

Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, Orsanmichele, 1410's.

Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, Uffizi, 1423.

Masaccio, (with Masolino) , Brancacci Chapel, Sta. Maria del Carmine, c. 1425.
"Expulsion From Paradise and Tribute Money."
Trinity with Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors. Sta Maria Novella, 1427-28.

ASSIGNMENTS - Visual analysis - due 29 September . Select an advertisement from a magazine and analyze how it uses color and form with text to communicate its fundamental premise. What specifically is it trying to say? Are there elements that undercut the success of the ad? What elements carry the greatest importance? Typed, double-spaced, edited, 5 pages.

Due 3 November - using texts that you have read this term and some independent research, create a fictitious character living in Florence in 1450 and have them commission a painting. Describe both the process and the object in detail.
or
Using comparative visual material and secondary sources
Discuss the attribution of " The Epiphany" (Metropolitan Museum Of Art ) To Giotto.
or
Describe, contrast, and compare Tullio Lombardo's "Adam" With School Of Ferrara "St. Sebastian." Typed, double-spaced,
Edited, 7-10 pages.

Due 20 December - final conference project due. Typed, double-spaced, edited, answering three of five questions on group readings.

RULES:

POLITE DRINKING ALLOWED IN CLASS. NO SMOKING, NO EATING.

PLEASE BE ON TIME.

MORE THAN THREE ABSENCES FROM CLASS AND ONE FROM CONFERENCE WILL NECESSITATE MAKE-UP WORK OR DISCIPLINARY ACTION., INCLUDING FAILURE OF THE COURSE. NO PARTIAL CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN.

Group Conferences:

Meet The Following Weeks:

On Wed. At 1 To 2 Pm. in PAC 2 And On Fri. From 11:30 To 12:30 in PAC 2.

Weeks 1 - 9/20 and 27- Donna Reid, Thinking And Writing About Art History.

Weeks 2 - 10/4 and 10/11 - William Durandus, Rationale Of The Divine Offices. (HANDOUT)

Weeks 3 - 10/ 18 And 10/25 - Cennino Cennini , The Craftsman's Handbook.
(HANDOUT)

Weeks 4 - 11/1 and 11/8 - Alberti, On Painting, Intro.

Weeks 5 - 11/ 15 (no classes week of 11/22) and 11/29 - Alberti, remainder of text.

Weeks 6 - 12/6 And 12/13 - Baxandall, Giotto And The Orators.