Art History
This course will cover the major buildings, monuments, paintings, and sculptures of the late Italian Gothic and Renaissance, focusing on Tuscany (Florence, Pisa, Sienna), but also examining trends and styles in Rome and Venice. We will concentrate on understanding the development of style within the larger cultural and historical contexts. As such, students will become familiar with Duccio, Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Alberti, Bramante, Palladio, Titian, Tintoretto, and many others. We will meet daily for lectures and tours.

Texts
Charles Avery, Florentine Renaissance Sculpture
Richard Turner, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art
The Blue Guide to Florence
A packet of supplemental readings

Requirements and Evaluation
All assigned readings (TBD) are mandatory. Students are required to attend and participate in all scheduled lectures; students are required to attend all scheduled tours of buildings, monuments, churches, and galleries, and all scheduled excursions to other towns. Students are required to keep a daily journal of their experiences. Students are required to hand in a research paper (8-10pp.) at the end of the summer (topics to be assigned later).
Grades will break down as follows:
Attendance/participation: 50%
Journal: 20%
Research paper: 30%

Note: Anyone who does not turn in a research paper will receive an F for the course