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Your chance to study art history in Florence, where it was made. Many of the classes will be held on-site, in the churches, palaces, and piazzas for which the works were created. The campus of Santa Reparata, located in the heart of Florence, on the site that was once the Medici Garden, is only a few minutes walk from many of the monuments that students will study. The "David" in the Academy Museum, the Medici Palace and Tombs, the Cathedral, and Santa Maria Novella are no more than a 15 minutes walk.
Taught by the Florentine art historian, Caterina Romei, this course will make a lasting impression on the participants, and form a solid basis for the critical understanding of renaissance art.
Beginning with the frescoes of the late 1200's from the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, this course covers the most important artists of the 1300's, 1400's, and early 1500's. Students are guided through the major artistic developments of these centuries from the spatial discoveries of Giotto, to the mathematical discovery of perspective, and on to the rebirth of interest in the classical world. The course covers the historical and political events and analyzes their influence on the artistic production. Class meets 1.5 hours daily and also includes several field trips.
Caterina Romei holds a master degree in History of Art at the University of Florence, with a thesis on: "History of the SS.Annunziata church and its transformations of the Counter Reformation period". In addition to 15 years of teaching for the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Ms. Romei has lectured and conducted walking tours in Florence for Goshen College, New York State Teachers Association, Washington University, Emily Carr School of Art and Design and the Koine School.
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