Bramante & High Renaissance Rome (U00845)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : ACE-3-AHBramant

Donato Bramante had contact with the most influential artists and patrons of his age. The course follows the career of Bramante, from Urbino, his birthplace, to the Duchy of Milan and finally to Rome, where he died in 1514. Thereafter, the principal architectural-historical events in Rome are discussed, particularly in relation to notions of Renaissance and High Renaissance. At the same time, changing religious and artistic values are traced up until 1546, the date of Michelangelo's appointment to bring Bramante's greatest Roman project, the church of St. Peter's, to a finish.

? Keywords : Bramante, Architecture, Rome, Vatican, Urbino, Milan, Renaissance, popes, St Peter's Rome, Architectural history

Entry Requirements

? This course is not accepting further student enrolments.

? Pre-requisites : AH2A & 2B; or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees; or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Architecture - History, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 40 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
08/01/2008	14:00	16:00

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central
Lecture	Friday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course aims to inform students about a period that is important both in history and historiography. The system of values that was developed in the period has had considerable currency. The principal objective of the course is that the reasoning that developed the system be revealed.
The honours course requires that students read and research in a more self-directed way than in previous years. They are called upon to organise more diffuse and challenging material, constructing more sophisticated architectural-historical argument, informed by analysis of primary sources and corrected by critical awareness with regard to secondary texts.