Sample Itinerary - Summer Holiday Courses in Northern Italy - Art History Abroad - Art History Abroad
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"AHA courses are much better than A level History of Art as a preparation for university work. Exposure to real paintings, sculpture and buildings develops visual alertness. Seeing art in the cities where it was made reveals how it was shaped by its cultural context. Students from AHA have been made aware of many of the problems and excitements of academic Art History before they begin their BA."
Professor John Onians
The School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia
Sample Itinerary
| DAY 1 | Arrive in Venice - Introduction and orientation | |
| DAY 2 | AM | Venetian History; Maritime power and the Republican system and how the city is possible. Piazza San Marco, the Doge's Palace (outside) and the Basilica of San Marco. |
| PM | Venetian Painting at the Accademia; From Gothic altarpiece to Grand Tourist souvenir. Veneziano, Bellini, Cima, Mantegna, Giorgione, Lotto, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Canaletto and Tiepolo. | |
| DAY 3 | AM | Andrea Palladio -the first architect of international influence; Architectural language, counter reformation and church planning. Churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore. |
| PM | Landmarks in 20th Century Painting. The Private Collection of Peggy Guggenheim; Picasso, Braque, Magritte, Dali, Ernst, Miro, Pollock. | |
| DAY 4 | AM | The Power of Paint; Status of the artist, the cult of Mary and the Scuola sytem. Tintoretto and Titian at the Scuola di San Rocco and the Frari. |
| PM | Free Afternoon | |
| DAY 5 | AM | Veronese's Complete project of San Sebastiano and Longhena legacy to Palladio at Santa Maria della Salute |
| PM | Train to Florence, Stopping off en route at Padua to see Giotto's frescoe cycle in the Arena chapel | |
| DAY 6 | AM | Florentine History; the state, economic power and the cradle of the Renaissance. The Palazzo della Signoria (outside) the Piazza Signoria, Orsanmichele and the Baptistry. |
| PM | The power of private patronage. Maths, space and art. The Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Palazzi Ruccellai and Strozzi. | |
| DAY 7 | AM | Free Morning |
| PM | The progression of Florentine painting and Humanism at the Uffizi. Vasari, Giotto, Simone Martini, Gentile da Fabriano, Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Massacio, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Bronzino, Michelangelo. | |
| DAY 8 | AM | Renaissance Sculpture; Narrative, the Paragone, techniques and Competition. Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Verrochio, Pollaiolo, Michelangelo, Ammanatti and Giambologna at the Bargello. |
| PM | The Mendicant Orders - the Franciscans and Medieval evangelism; Giotto and Donatello at Santa Croce. Perfect architecture, Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. | |
| DAY 9 | AM | The Medici Family; Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Palazzo Medici and the Gozzoli Chapel, the Old Sacristry at San Lorenzo and Beato Angelico at San Marco. |
| PM | Pure Architecture and familial representation; Brunelleschi's Santo Spirito, Santi Apostoli and Santa Trinita | |
| DAY 10 | AM | A Modern Genius - Michelangelo; State and Private image, Developments in Anatomical exploration and Mannerist architecture. David, the New Sacristry and the Laurentian Library. |
| PM | Travel to Rome | |
| DAY 11 | The Legacy of Classical Rome; republicanism, law, legalised savagery, religion and engineering. The Forum, Collosseum and the Pantheon | |
| DAY 12 | AM | Survival of faith in banned times; legalised church, constantine, barbarian invasions and martydom. S. Agnese, Sta Costanza and S. Quattro Fontane |
| PM | Stone into Flesh; The Galleria Borghese with Bernini sculpture, Caravaggio canvases, Titian, Raphael and Domenichino. | |
| DAY 13 | Temporal Power of the Church; early reformation, counter reformation and public relations. St Peters and the Vatican Museum. Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael and Bernini. | |
| DAY 14 | AM | Devil and/or Genius; Caravaggio at San Luigi dei Francesi, San Agostino and Santa Maria del Popolo. |
| PM | Free Afternoon | |
| DAY 15 | AM | Papal Foundation and Playful Villa; Peter's Martydom at the tempietto and Raphael and Peruzzi at the Villa Farnesina |
| PM | Travel to London |
