Renaissance Florence

Course description
Renaissance Florence explores the development of painting, sculpture and architecture in Florence from the mid‐fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The course traces the impact of Humanism on the arts, focusing in particular on the patronage of the Medici. The course will meet once a week, but includes an obligatory weekend field trip to Florence.  

Required Textbook (subject to change)

• Loren Partridge, Art in Renaissance Florence, 1400‐1600 (University of California Press, 2009) ISBN 13‐978‐0520257740
• Stefano U. Baldassarri (ed), Images of Quattrocento Florence. Selected Writings in Literature, History and Art (New Have and London : Yale University Press, 2000) ISBN : 0‐300‐08052‐2

Recommended Readings (subject to change)
A list of readings will be provided early in the course.
Books/DVDs on Reserve at the library

The bibliography on Renaissance Florence is huge. Books on reserve will include:

• George Holmes, The Florentine Enlightenment (Oxford: Clarenden Press, revd ed. 1992)   ISBN : 0‐19‐820292‐X
• Ferdinand Schevill, Medieval and Renaissance Florence, Vol. II: the Coming of Humanism and the Age of the Medici (New York: Harper and Row, revd ed. 1963) ISBN: 60‐8571

Entry Fees
Students arrange their own transportation to, and accommodation in, Florence. Students are responsible for all entry fees.