Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
External - Florence University of the Arts
Course Title:
Florentine Art Walks
Course Number:
GSUSFW280
Course Description:
This course examines the city of Florence with themed walks offering a comprehensive approach to the city as an open-air cultural, historical, and artistic research site from its Roman foundation to its contemporary Zeitgeist. Students will learn the history of the city through its art: they will understand how buildings, streets, squares, and monuments can be mapped as living traces of multiple, overlapping layers of a complex past, and how to encode them in their personal appropriation of the city. Starting from learning how to decode the artistic environment of the city and to unveil its traces (both visible and invisible) the course aims at understanding the main social and cultural reasons underlying the existing shape of the city. The course explores traces and evidences from Roman times through Middle Ages, Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque, up to Art Nouveau and contemporary Florence. Students will be provided with a ...
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
Attachment Files:
_syllabus_LAHSFW280 Florentine Art Walks_1690360170.pdf
