BOTTICELLI AND HIS TIME

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1 Syllabus BOTTICELLI AND HIS TIME Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: History of Art Academic year: 3 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Luba Freedman Coordinator lubafre@mscc.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesdays, 18:15-19:00 Teaching Staff: Prof Luba Freedman page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: We will discuss religious and secular works from the oeuvre of Sandro Botticelli. They will be studied in relation to the works done by his contemporaries (the Pollaiuolo brothers, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and the workshop of Andrea del Verocchio). We will try to understand the visual arts influenced by the humanistic atmosphere of the city of Florence during the time of the Medici familys unofficial rule. Course/Module aims: to grant knowledge about the fifteenth-century Florentine visual culture with emphasis on painting; to understand the artists major works in relation to the works by his contemporaries; to distinguish between various kinds of works within broad categories of religious and secular art and understand the relationship between techniques, styles, subjects, and patrons personalities; to write a research paper with distinction between facts and hypotheses and between ideas of critics and those of scholars. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: to know in depth major works of the leading Florentine artist; to understand the relation between subject and destination of a painting; to recognize kinds of paintings within broad category of religious art and see them as impacting secular art; to raise questions about works by way of combining observation and knowledge; to write a research paper and present ideas in lecture form on the level of conference presentationssr Attendance requirements(%): 90 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: use of power point presentations which combine images and factual texts` combination of frontal lectures and discussions; dicussions of research subjects and oral presentations. PS. Oral presentation is compulsory for all the students. Course/Module Content: Introduction--survey of major works (2 meetings with the bibliography given during the second meeting) The topic of the sacra conversazione (2 meetings and the distribution of the verbal syllabus during the first meeting and reading the artists letters during the second meeting) page 2 / 6

3 Monastic orders and the survey of Fra Filippo Lippis paintings (3 meetings; reading of texts) Verrocchio as Botticellis master (1 meeting and the discussion of research subjects) The Pollaiuolo Brothers (1 meeting) Botticellis early paintings in relation to the works of his contemporaries (1 meeting) The art of portraiture including the problem of female portrait as an independent art work (2 meetings including the receipt of pages with research subjects during the first meeting) Self-portrait in Florentine art (1 meeting, including the discussion on pages with reserach subjects) Adoration of the Magi in Florentine art in chronological order (2 meetings) Annunciation from typological vewpoint (2 meetings including reading of the texts) Reception of classical heritage by the way of presentation of basic books on the subject (1 meeting) Distinction between reception of classical texts and reception of mythological subjects (1 meeting including the discussion of research subjects) Filaretes bronze doors as the presentation of mytholoical subjects in the context of religious and political subjects (1 meeting) Bandinis prints and domestic art (1 meeting) Primavera and reading of Albertis On Painting (2 meetings) Venus in relation to religious art (1 meeting and reading of Polizianos poem) Botticelli and Savonarola (2 meetings and reading of texts) Some of the topics may not be presented as 4 classes at least are given to students presentations which are compulsory; the last class is the survey of Botticellis works seen in the very first meeting. Required Reading: On Botticelli Arasse, Daniel, and Pierluigi De Vecchi, ed. Botticelli: From Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola. Milan, ND 623 B658 B * Reserves Bo, Carlo, with Gabriele Mandel. Lopera completa del Botticelli. Milan, ND 623 B658 M33* Non-circulating + 7 days loan Hatfield, Rab, ed. Sandro Botticelli and Herbert Horne: New Research. Florence and Syracuse, NY, ND 623 B658 S * 7 days loan Horne, Herbert P. Botticelli, Painter of Florence. Intro. John Pope-Hennessy. Princeton, NJ, ND 623 B658 H Reserves Kanter, Laurence B., Hilliard T. Goldfarb, and James Hankins. Botticellis Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence. Boston, Mass., *ND 623 B658 B69 Reserves page 3 / 6

4 Kצrner, Hans. Botticelli. Cologne, ND 623 B658 K67 Non-circulating Lightbown, R. W. Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work. 2 vols. Berkeley, CA, *ND 623 B658 L53 Reserves Schumacher, Andreas, ed. with contributions by Cristina Acidini... [et al.]. Botticelli: Likeness, Myth, Devotion. An Exhibition Organized by the Stהdel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 13, 2009-February 28, Ostfildern, ND 623 B658 A4 2009* Reserves + Zצllner, Frank. Sandro Botticelli. Trans. [from the German] Ishbel Flett. Munich, * Oversized Books ND 623 B658 Z * Non-circulating On Florentine Art Andres, Glenn M., Hunisak, John M., and A. Richard Turner. The Art of Florence. 2 vols. New York: N 6921 F7 A * Non-circulating Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. Oxford, *ND 615 B Reserves Randolph, Adrian W. B.. Engaging Symbols: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence., New Haven, CT, * N 6921 F7 R days loan Rubin, Patricia, and Alison Wright, with contributions by Nicholas Penny. Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s. London, * N 6921 F7 R83 Noncirculating Documentary Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. Trans. [from the Latin] Cecil Grayson; with an introduction and notes by Martin Kemp. London, ND 1130 A Noncirculating + 2 copies 7 days loan +Gilbert, Creighton E., ed. Italian Art, : Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, N 6915 I78 7 days loan *N 6915 I78* Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Trans. Gaston du C. de Vere, with an introduction and notes by David Ekserdjian. 2 vols. New York, 1996., *N 6922 V Non-circulating פרקים בתיאוריה של אמנות הרנסאנס והבארוק : מבחר טקסטים מכתבי ליאון באטיסטה אלברטי, ליאונרדו דא וינצי, אלברכט דירר וגובאן פייטרו בלורי / בצירוף מבואות ובעריכתו המדעית של משה ברש. ירושלים : הוצאת ספרים ע"ש י"ל מאגנס, האוניברסיטה העברית, תשמ"ט. 6 B ND עותקים לשבוע page 4 / 6

5 On Other Artists + Cadogan, Jeanne K.. Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven, CT, ND 623 G345 C Non-circulating Covi, Dario A. Andrea del Verrocchio: Life and Work. Florence, * NB 623 V613 C Non-circulating Ruda, Jeffrey. Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work. London, ND 623 L666 R83 Noncirculating Wright, Alison. The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome. New Haven, CT, N 6923 P6 W * Non-circulating Additional Reading Material: Baxandall, Michael. Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition, , Oxford, *ND 170 B37 7 days loan Gombrich, E. H.. Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance II. London, N 6370 G Non-circulating + 2 copies 7 days loan Warburg, Aby. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance. Intro. Kurt W. Forster; trans. David Britt. Los Angeles, CA, * N 6370 W Non-circulating Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 25 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 65 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: Pages with the bibliography and a page with the syllabus wil be distributed in the page 5 / 6

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