ARTH 236(S) Mural Painting of the Italian Renaissance

This lecture course will be dedicated to fresco-painting, and will concern the development of this specific genre in Italy from 1400 to 1500. Starting with the fresco-cycle of Masaccio and Masolino (Cappella Brancacci in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence), stylistic and iconographic problems of these public spaces will be discussed regarding the decorative programs of both sacred and profane art. Examples will include Cappella Castiglione in San Clemente, Rome (Masolino, Masaccio); the "Collegiata," Castiglione Olona (Masolino); the Monastery of San Marco in Florence (Fra Angelico); the Cappella Niccolina in the Vatican (Fra Angelico); the Main Chancel of San Francesco in Arezzo (Piero della Francesca); the "Cappella dei Magi" of the Palazzo Medici in Florence (Benozzo Gozzoli); the "Salone dei Mesi" in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara (Cosimo Tura and others); the "Camera degli Sposi" in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua (Andrea Mantegna); the "Sala dei Gigli" in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (Ghirlandaio); the Cappella Sassetti in Santa Trinita in Florence (Ghirlandaio); the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia (Pietro Perugino); the "Libreria Piccolomini" in the Cathedral of Siena (Pinturicchio) and the Cappella Nuova in the Cathedral of Orvieto (Fra Angelico, Luca Signorelli). Prerequisites: ArtH 101-102.

Hour: BEYER