Arch 882X [3-0-3]
History, Theory, Criticism: History of Renaissance and Mannerist Architecture
This course provides an opportunity to study Quattrocento and Cinquecento Italian architecture in detail. The course includes study of individual architects, city histories, and major theoretical writings.
Topics:
- Proto-Renaissance Trecento architecture
- History of the City of Florence
- Brunelleschi
- Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
- Alberti
- Guiliano da Sangallo
- Guiliano and Benedetto da Maiano
- Rossellino and Pienza
- Urbino
- Venice
- Lombardy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Raphael
- Michelangelo
- Giulio Romano
- Mantua
- Michele Sanmicheli
- Ammanati
- Vasari
- Vignola
- Serlio
- Palladio
- Filarete
- Scamozzi
- Bramante
- Pirro Ligorio