Unit HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

Course
Archaeology and history of art
Study-unit Code
35347006
Curriculum
Generico
Teacher
Francesca Funis
Teachers
  • Francesca Funis
Hours
  • 36 ore - Francesca Funis
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Archeologia e antichità classiche e medievali
Academic discipline
ICAR/18
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italiano
Contents
The course will deal with the use of classical architecture as an architectural language in the Italian architectural heritage.
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; Renaissance architecture; Baroque Architecture.
Reference texts
Textbooks:
- Several Autors, Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, Armando Edizioni, 2019 (or Roma, Sovera Edizioni, 2018 or earlier editions)
Educational objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Baroque. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Prerequisites
The student must possess basic knowledge of a historical and cultural nature relating to the historical periods treated
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits
Other information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel; Santa Maria Novella (façade); Santissima Annunziata Square; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Church, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai (façade) and loggia; church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Tito; Pantheon; Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); Piazza del Campidoglio;
San Pietro, basilica, baldachin, square; Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in piazza Navona; Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria; Scala Regia in Vaticano; Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada; Church and Convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; church of Sant’Agnese in Agone; Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza.
Learning verification modality
The exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Baroque architecture).
To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:

1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
5. Imperial Fora
6. Trajan's Market
7. Arch of Titus
8. Arch of Septimius Severus
9. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
10. Basilica of Maxentius
11. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
12. Colosseum
13. Pantheon
14. Hadrian's Villa
15. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
16. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
17. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
18. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
19. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
20. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
21. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
22. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
23. Pienza
24. Urbino
25. Ferrara
26. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
27. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
28. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
29. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
30. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
31. Sant’Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
32. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
33. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
34. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
35. New Sacristy, Florence
36. Laurentian Library, Florence
37. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
38. Basilica di San Pietro
39. Baldacchino di San Pietro
40. Piazza di San Pietro
41. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a piazza Navona
42. Cappella Cornaro a Santa Maria della Vittoria
43. La vicenda dei campanili di San Pietro
44. Scala Regia in Vaticano
45. Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada
46. Chiesa e convento di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
47. Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
48. Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza
Extended program
Course content
The course will deal with the use of classical architecture as an architectural language in the Italian architectural heritage.
The course will address the principal architectural and urban styles of the various periods, focusing on the architectural order and its components; classical Greek architecture; Roman architecture from the Republican Age to late antiquity; Renaissance architecture; Baroque Architecture.

Reference texts
Textbooks:
- Several Autors, Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, Armando Edizioni, 2019 (or Roma, Sovera Edizioni, 2018 or earlier editions).

Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from antiquity to the Baroque. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.

Prerequisites
The student must possess basic knowledge of a historical and cultural nature relating to the historical periods treated.

Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and tutorial analyses, study visits.

Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore; Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel; Santa Maria Novella (façade); Santissima Annunziata Square; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, Church, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici chapels; Palazzo Rucellai (façade) and loggia; church of Santo Spirito and sacristy; Museo di San Marco; Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens.
Rome:
Fora (especially Trajan's Column and Market, the Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of Maxentius); Colosseum; Arch of Tito; Pantheon; Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Via Garibaldi); Piazza del Campidoglio;
San Pietro, basilica, baldachin, square; Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in piazza Navona; Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria; Scala Regia in Vaticano; Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada; Church and Convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; church of Sant’Agnese in Agone; Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza.

Assessment methods
The exam will be oral on the entire program (from classical Greek architecture to Baroque architecture).
To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:

1. The architectural order: definition and elements
2. The Acropolis and its monuments
3. Sanctuaries in Lazio: Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina
4. Vitruvius and his theoretical works
5. Imperial Fora
6. Trajan's Market
7. Arch of Titus
8. Arch of Septimius Severus
9. Basilicas of Aemilia, Julia and Ulpia
10. Basilica of Maxentius
11. Theatres of Pompey and Marcellus
12. Colosseum
13. Pantheon
14. Hadrian's Villa
15. Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
16. Basilica of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy, Florence
17. Pazzi Chapel, Florence
18. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy), Florence
19. Dome, blind tribunes and lantern of Florence Cathedral
20. Malatesta Chapel, Rimini
21. Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo, chapel and façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
22. Church of San Sebastiano and Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
23. Pienza
24. Urbino
25. Ferrara
26. Palazzo Medici, Via Cavour (formerly Via Larga), Florence
27. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
28. Palazzo Farnese, Rome
29. Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan
30. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
31. Sant’Ambrogio (cloisters and rectory), Milan
32. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
33. San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
34. Belvedere Courtyard and Spiral Staircase by Bramante, Rome
35. New Sacristy, Florence
36. Laurentian Library, Florence
37. Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
38. Basilica di San Pietro
39. Baldacchino di San Pietro
40. Piazza di San Pietro
41. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a piazza Navona
42. Cappella Cornaro a Santa Maria della Vittoria
43. La vicenda dei campanili di San Pietro
44. Scala Regia in Vaticano
45. Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada
46. Chiesa e convento di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
47. Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
48. Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza
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