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"I see the trip as a rite of passage; a fundamental part of my education. I returned wiser...[and feel much more confident going into an arts degree] ...with such an understanding and a love for the arts behind me. I have also made friends I will keep for life. The experience was unforgettable. I LOVED IT."

Rebecca Udy, Spring 2003

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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
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