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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 70 € enrollment fee is required to be added to the price of the course.
Course B: Art in Florence from the Middle Ages to the XXth century
The course is mainly held in class in English, it consist of two lessons per week of two hours each, held in the late afternoon. It suitable expecially for those who can stay in Florence for longer periods or have other courses during the day. 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 1400 and 1500 for the first month and, for those who want to carry on, it continues from 1500 to today.
PROGRAMME Course A: Visits to museums, churches and monuments, in Italian
- 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 XXth century
MODULE I
Lesson 1. Precursors of the
Renaissance in the 13th and 14th century: Giotto and Cimabue
Lesson 2. The dawn of the
Renaissance in sculpture and architecture: Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti
Lesson 3. The first Renaissance in
painting: Masaccio, Masolino, Frà Angelico, Filippo Lippi
Lesson 4. Art and philosophy: Piero
della Francesca and Botticelli
Lesson 5.
Masters of masters: Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Perugino
Lesson 6.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Lesson 7.
Raffaello
Lesson 8.
Michelangelo
MODULE II
Lesson 1.
Mannerism in Venice, Emilia and Florence: Tiziano, Giorgione, Correggio,
Parmigianino, Andrea del Sarto, Rosso fiorentino, Pontormo
Lesson 2.
Baroque painting: the Carracci, Caravaggio
Lesson
3. Sculpture and baroque architecture in
Rome: Bernini and Borromini
Lesson 4.
Neoclassicism in sculpture: Canova
Lesson 5. Neoclassicism in painting
and architecture: David, John Nash
Lesson 6. Romanticism in painting:
Géricault, Delacroix, Ingres Turner
Lesson 7. Historical revivals and
Arts and Crafts: Morris, Ruskin, Pugin, Viollet-le-Duc, Rossetti, Burne-Jones,
Voysey
Lesson 8. Impressionism: Manet,
Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro
Lesson 9. Post-Impressionism: Van
Gogh, Cézanne, Gaugin, Toulouse-Lautrec
Lesson 10. Art Nouveau: Horta, Van
de Velde, Guimard, Hoffman, Olbrich, Wagner, Gaudí
Lesson 11. Fauves and Cubism:
Matisse, Picasso, Braque
Lesson 12. Futurism and
Expressionism: Marinetti, Sant’Elia, Balla, Carrà, Kandisnkij, Marc, Kirchner
Lesson 13. Bauhaus and De Stijl.
Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Gropius, Klee
Lesson 14. Dada and Surrealism.
Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí, Masson
Lesson 15. Art Brut and Pop Art. Paolozzi, Dubouffet, Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg
Lesson 16. Abstract Expressionism. Pollock, Rothko
