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Art history
Florence offers the incomparable opportunity to attend an History of Art course in touch with the originals of the most important artworks from Middle Age to contemporary art preserved in its museums, monuments and collections. The Academy Leonardo da Vinci in Florence offers 2 types of course to meet the students' different needs. Click on the course name to see programs and details:
Course A: Visits to museums, churches and monuments, in Italian
The course consists of guided visits to major museums, churches and monuments of the city and is in Italian. It includes three guided tours per week. The timetable is usually from 12.30 onwards. This course is not compatible with some of our art ocurses.
It is possible to start the course every week, the minimum attendance is 1 week and the maximum attendance is 4 weeks.
The program is communicated two weeks before the guided visits take place.
For the Art History course A an additional 80 € enrollment fee is required to be added to the price of the course.
Course B: Art in Florence from the Middle Ages to the XIXth century
The course is mainly held in class in English, it consist of two lessons per week of two hours each, held in the afternoon. This course is mainly addressed to those who can dedicate longer periods of time to the study
of Art History and also attend other courses during the day.
The program concentrates in particular on the study of the period between 1200 and 1900.
PROGRAM Course A: Visits to museums, churches and monuments, in Italian
Tours can include:
- Galleria degli Uffizi
- Galleria dell’Accademia
- Galleria Palatina
- Chiesa di Santa Croce
- Chiesa di Santa Maria Novella
- Basilica di San Lorenzo
- Chiesa di San Miniato
- Chiesa di Santo Spirito
- Museo di San Marco
- Opera del Duomo
- Cappella Brancacci
- Cappelle Medicee
- Palazzo Vecchio
- Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
- Battistero
- Museo del Novecento
- Badia Fiorentina
PROGRAMME Course B: Art in Florence from the Middle Ages to the XIXth century
• The precursors of the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th Centuries: Giotto and Cimabue
• The birth of Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture: Donatello, Brunelleschi and Alberti
• The first Renaissance Painting: Masaccio, Masolino, Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi
• Arts and Philosophy: Piero della Francesca and Botticelli
• The Renaissance out of florence: from Antonello da Messina to andrea Mantegna
• Teachers of The Masters: Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio and Perugino
• Leonardo Da Vinci: The Universal Genius
• Michelangelo: The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Raphael: The Art of Divine Grace
• Titian and Giorgione: Pioneers of Color and Light
• Mannerism, The Art of Transition: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
• The end of Mannerist, from Renaissance to Baroque: Parmigianino and Giulio Romano
• The rise of Baroque, Light and shadow: Carracci and Caravaggio
• The opulence of Baroque architecture: Bernini and Borromini
• Neoclassical Sculpture: Canova's vision
• David Nash and the Neoclassical Revolution in Art
• Romanticism in Painting: Géricault, Delacroix, Ingres and Turner
• Towards 19° century: Napoleon Art and Realism
• Brushtrokes of Change: The Revolution of Impressionism
• From Impressionism to Neo-Impressionism: A new Vision
