Undergraduate Course: Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610 (HIAR10123)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Each seminar will consider a group of works ż painting, sculpture and architecture - in the context of Catholic Reform. The case studies each week will proceed roughly chronologically. They will represent different kinds of work ż from altarpieces to prints, Sacred and secular art ż to explore the papal control of images and test its efficacy and influence. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 20 |
| Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Students will acquire a knowledge of the relationship between art and politics in Rome in the 16th century and the impact of Rome's history and topography on its art and architecture.
2. Students will be able to recognise key works of art and their significance in this period and discuss key themes and debates raised by the art of the period, and deploy this awareness in presentations and written work.
3. Students will identify and exploit different kinds of primary and secondary sources to support their studies.
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Assessment Information
| 1 x 2500 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour examination (50%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Course structure:
Weekly seminars will move through a series of roughly chronological case studies as follows:
Week 1: Introduction: from the Council of Trent to Gabriele Paleotti
Week 2: St Peterżs and the Vatican Palaces
Week 3: Michelangelo
Week 4: The churches of the new religious orders and their decorative programmes
Week 5: Depicting martyrdom
Week 6: Innovative learning week
Week 7: The Venerable English College: traitors or martyrs?
Week 8: Prints and printmaking
Week 9: Secular art?
Week 10: The Accademia di San Luca and the art market in Rome
Week 11: Tombs and monuments
Week 12: Review ż art of the Catholic Reform?
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
James S. Ackerman, żThe Gesů in the light of contemporary church designż, in Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution, Rudolf Wittkower and Irma B. Jaffe eds (Fordham University Press), pp.15-28 (also in Cole, Sixteenth Century Italian Art, pp.368-87)
Yoni Ascher, żManifest humbleness: self-commemoration in the time of the Catholic Reformż, Sixteenth Century Journal 35/2 (2004), pp.329-56
Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610 (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
Michael Bury, żThe taste for prints in Italy to c. 1600ż, Print Quarterly 2 (1985), pp.12-26.
Michael Bury, żOn some engravings by Giorgio Ghisi commonly called żreproductiveżż, Print Quarterly 10/1 (1993), pp.4-19 (also in Cole, Sixteenth Century Italian Art, pp.275-90)
Michael Bury, żInfringing privileges and copying in Rome, c. 1600ż, Print Quarterly 22/2 (2005), 133-8.
Louis Cellauro, żThe Casino of Pius IV in the Vaticanż, Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995), pp.183-214
Michael W. Cole, Sixteenth Century Italian Art (Blackwell, 2006)
Charles Dempsey, Review of Stuart Lingo, Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting, Art Bulletin Vol. 92/3 (2010), pp.251-256
John Dillenberger, Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Una Roman DżElia, żDrawing Christżs blood: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna and the aesthetics of reformż, Renaissance Quarterly 59/1 (2006), 90-129.
Creighton E. Gilbert, Caravaggio and his Two Cardinals (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995)
David Freedberg, The Power of Images: Studies in the History of Response (University of Chicago, 1989)
Marcia B. Hall, żMichelangelożs Last Judgment: resurrection of the body and predestinationż, The Art Bulletin 58/1 (1976), pp.85-92
Marcia B. Hall, The Sacred Image in the Age of Art (Yale, 2011)
Alexandra Hertz, żCardinal Cesare Baroniożs restoration of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo and S. Cesareo deżAppiaż, Art Bulletin 70 (1988), pp.590-620
Kathryn B. Hiesinger, żThe Fregoso Monument: a study in sixteenth-century tomb monuments and Catholic Reformż, The Burlington Magazine 118, no. 878 (1976), pp.282-93
Pamela M. Jones, żArt theory as ideology: Gabriele Paleottiżs hierarchical notion of paintingżs universality and receptionż, in Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650, Claire Farago ed. (Yale, 1995), pp.127-39
Joseph Leo Koerner, The Reformation of the Image (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Stuart Lingo, Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting (Yale, 2008)
Peter M. Lukehart, The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Lucca in Rome, c. 1590-1635 (CASVA Seminar Papers 2, Yale, 2009)
Diarmid MacCulloch, Mary Laven and Eamon Duffy, żRecent trends in the study of Christianity in sixteenth-century europeż, Renaissance Quarterly 59/3 (2006), pp.697-731.
Alexander Nagel, żGifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonnaż, (in Cole, Sixteenth Century Italian Art, pp.324-67)
Alexander Nagel, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Steven F. Ostrow, Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Carol M. Richardson, żDurante Alberti, the Martyrsż Picture and the Venerable English College, Romeż, Papers of the British School at Rome, 73 (2005), pp.223-263
Clare Robertson, Il gran cardinależ: Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts (Yale, 1992)
Melinda Schlitt, żPainting, criticism, and Michelangelożs Last Judgement in the age of the Counter-Reformationż, in Michelagelożs żLast Judgementż, Marcia B. Hall ed. (Cambridge University Press), pp.113-49
Livia Stoenescu, żAncient prototypes reinstantiated: Zuccariżs Encounter of Christ and Veronica of 1594,ż Art Bulletin 93/4 (2011), pp.423-448
Charles de Tolnay, żMichalengelo and Vittoria Colonnaż, Michelangelo V: The Final Period (Princeton, 1960), pp.51-69 (also in Cole, Sixteenth Century Italian Art, pp.306-23)
Ian Verstegen, żFederico Barocci, Federico Borromeo and their Oratorian orbitż, Renaissance Quarterly 56/1 (2003), pp.56-87
Graham Smith, The Casino of Pius IV (Princeton University Press, 1977) - review by Loren W. Partridge in The Art Bulletin 60/2 (June 1978), pp.369-372,
Rebecca Zorach (ed.), The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome (University of Chicago Library, 2008)
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Carol Richardson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4119
Email: C.M.Richardson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email: Sue.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk |
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