HUAS72201 - Monuments of Early Modern Rome

Course Description

 Through the lens of some of Rome’s best-known monuments, this course will explore the Eternal City’s art, architecture, and urbanism from the mid-fifteenth through late seventeenth centuries. The Sistine Chapel; the Vatican Stanze; New St. Peter’s; Renaissance and Baroque tombs, fountains, altarpieces, churches, palaces, villas, gardens; and urban interventions will be presented within the context of Rome’s incomparably rich history. Rome’s multi-layered nature, in which tangible remains of successive eras shaped and informed visual experience, will be emphasized. Lectures will underscore the city’s mythic character and will explore the interdependence of religion, political power, and art in early modern Rome.