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Key facts
| Type | Weekly Classes |
|---|---|
| Location | Reading |
| Address | Room 108 Building 22 London Road Campus Reading. |
| Dates | Tue 2 Oct to Tue 4 Dec 2012 Day: Tuesday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 10 |
| Subject area(s) | History of Art |
| CATS points | 10 |
| Fees | From £145.00 |
| Application status | Course ended |
| Course code | R12P439ARW |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
Many Renaissance works of art were originally commissioned for the domestic interior. This innovative course reconsiders the Renaissance by examining a variety of works of art in the homes of rich and poor in differing Italian states.Description
This course will take a new and exciting look at the Renaissance by exploring how the urban homes of Renaissance Italy made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts, not only in architecture, painting and sculpture, but also in less well known areas such as the furniture and fittings in various rooms throughout the home, and in textiles, jewellery and cookery books! Contemporary paintings will be used to explore the wealth of domestic detail they provide for us.Programme details
Week 1: The development of the palazzo in Florence, Venice and Rome.Week 2: The interior layout of the Renaissance home.
Week 3: The place of the portrait.
Week 4: The public rooms: feasts and banquets.
Week 5: Design in the domestic interior
Week 6: The kitchen and the cooks.
Week 7: The world of women: marriage and childbirth
Week 8: The man's world: the 'camera' and 'studiolo'
Week 9: Domestic devotion: art and books.
Week 10: Jewellery, costume and textiles.
Background reading:
Welch, E. Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997]
Campbell, C. Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. [London: The Courtauld. 2009]
Welch, E. Shopping in the Renaissance. [New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005]
Debretts Ltd. Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500-1630. [London: Debrett’s Peerage in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. 2003]
Staff
Dr Diana Matthews
Role: Tutor
Diana Matthews has been rearching the art and architectural history of Italy for over 10 years. She is currently completing a book on the the...more
Course aims
Course aim:The course aims to explore and reveal the importance of the role of the domestic interior in the commissioning and creation of Renaissance art, not only in the noble palazzo but also in the more modest establishments of the prosperous bankers and merchants, through the differing cultural contexts of three of the powerful city states, Rome, Venice and Florence.
Course objectives:
1. analyze the extensive evidence about the interior revealed in many Italian paintings.
2. examine the extent to which art and design was used in the creation of a variety of domestic objects of the period.
3. explore the motives of the great men/families who provided patronage to artists within the domestic context.
Assessment methods
Students will also be expected to complete an assignment by the end of the course, the title to be chosen in consultation with the tutor. Students may choose to discuss what may be learned about the domestic interior from a particular work of art or design, such as a portrait, or may examine the effect on domestic art/design of the patronage of one particular family.Teaching methods
Informal illustrated lectures will be alternated with class discussion and group exercises.Teaching outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:1. appreciate the varying functions of the Renaissance home which led to the commissioning of a wide range of artistic objects
2. analyze how works of art can provide us with a unique view of the social structure of these households
3. discuss the part played by individuals and by families in the commissioning of Renaissance art, often from major artists such as Botticelli and, later, Lorenzo Lotto.
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