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 2023
Offered
2023/24
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
Italian
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; Roman architecture; 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, in-depth thematic and seminar lectures, study visits.
Lectures will be held at scheduled times, but will be delivered in-person at the Department of Engineering. It will be possible to attend lectures remotely from a classroom at the Department of Humanities.
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 Roman 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
4. Fori Imperiali
5. Mercati di Traiano
6. Arco di Tito
7. Arco di Settimio Severo
8. Basilica: Aemilia, Julia, Ulpia
9. Basilica di Massenzio
10. Teatro di Pompeo e di Marcello
11. Colosseo
12. Pantheon
13. Villa Adriana
14. Ospedale degli Innocenti
15. Chiesa di San Lorenzo e Sagrestia Vecchia
16. Cappella Pazzi
17. Chiesa di Santo Spirito (e sacrestia)
18. Cupola, Tribune Morte e Lanterna di Santa Maria del Fiore
19. Il Tempio Malatestiano a Rimini
20. Per Giovanni Rucellai: Palazzo, Sacello e facciata di Santa Maria Novella
21. San Sebastiano e Sant’Andrea a Mantova
22. Pienza
23. Urbino
24. Ferrara
25. Palazzo Medici via Larga
26. Palazzo Pitti
27. Palazzo Farnese
28. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
29. Santa Maria delle Grazie
30. Sant’Ambrogio (chiostri e canonica)
31. Chiostro di Santa Maria della Pace
32. San Pietro in Montorio
33. Cortile del Belvedere e Scala a Lumaca
34. Sacrestia Nuova
35. Libreria Medicea Laurenziana
36. Piazza del Campidoglio
37. Basilica di San Pietro
38. Gli Uffizi
39. Il Corridoio Vasariano
40. Palazzo Vecchio a Firenze
41. Baldacchino di San Pietro
42. Piazza di San Pietro
43. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a piazza Navona
44. Cappella Cornaro a Santa Maria della Vittoria
45. La vicenda dei campanili di San Pietro
46. Scala Regia in Vaticano
47. Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada
48. Chiesa e convento di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
49. Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
50. 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; Roman architecture; 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 Roman 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
4. Fori Imperiali
5. Mercati di Traiano
6. Arco di Tito
7. Arco di Settimio Severo
8. Basilica: Aemilia, Julia, Ulpia
9. Basilica di Massenzio
10. Teatro di Pompeo e di Marcello
11. Colosseo
12. Pantheon
13. Villa Adriana
14. Ospedale degli Innocenti
15. Chiesa di San Lorenzo e Sagrestia Vecchia
16. Cappella Pazzi
17. Chiesa di Santo Spirito (e sacrestia)
18. Cupola, Tribune Morte e Lanterna di Santa Maria del Fiore
19. Il Tempio Malatestiano a Rimini
20. Per Giovanni Rucellai: Palazzo, Sacello e facciata di Santa Maria Novella
21. San Sebastiano e Sant’Andrea a Mantova
22. Pienza
23. Urbino
24. Ferrara
25. Palazzo Medici via Larga
26. Palazzo Pitti
27. Palazzo Farnese
28. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
29. Santa Maria delle Grazie
30. Sant’Ambrogio (chiostri e canonica)
31. Chiostro di Santa Maria della Pace
32. San Pietro in Montorio
33. Cortile del Belvedere e Scala a Lumaca
34. Sacrestia Nuova
35. Libreria Medicea Laurenziana
36. Piazza del Campidoglio
37. Basilica di San Pietro
38. Gli Uffizi
39. Il Corridoio Vasariano
40. Palazzo Vecchio a Firenze
41. Baldacchino di San Pietro
42. Piazza di San Pietro
43. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a piazza Navona
44. Cappella Cornaro a Santa Maria della Vittoria
45. La vicenda dei campanili di San Pietro
46. Scala Regia in Vaticano
47. Galleria di palazzo Capodiferro-Spada
48. Chiesa e convento di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
49. Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone
50. Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza
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