ARCH 3823 - Urban Design, Architecture, and Art in Renaissance and Baroque Rome

(ALC-AAP, LA-AAP) (CU-ITL)

Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: ARCH 1801 and ARCH 2802, or permission of instructor. Counts as architectural history elective for B.Arch. students; art history elective for B.F.A. students; Literature and the Arts (LA) or Arts, Literature, and Culture (ALC) requirement for BS in URS students. Offered in Rome, Italy.

J. Blanchard.

This course focuses on the Renaissance and Baroque phases (15th-18th centuries) of Rome’s history. The first class sessions will survey the city’s urban history and form from its origins to the present, and we will often turn our attention to earlier and later developments, without an understanding of which the Renaissance and Baroque periods would be only partially intelligible. While the history of urban and architectural design will be our main focus, we will also look at key episodes of painting and sculpture, especially by artists who are also among the principal architects of these periods (Michelangelo, Bernini).