Are you fascinated by the beauty of Italian cultural monuments? This course will enable you to study the history of Italian arts and its social background.

The course is designed to show, by means of slides and guided visits, the development of art in Italy in relation to the rest of Europe.The artistic history will always be connected to the most significant contemporary historical and social events.

The program foresees the following subjects:

General and historical lists; The Romanesque period.

The XIII century: Architecture - passage of the French Gothic in Italy; The “Italian” Gothic; The sculpture: from Nicola Pisano to Arnolfo di Cambio.

The architectural and urban transformation between the XIII and the XIV century.

Florence and Siena in the XIV century: Cimabue and Duccio; Giotto; Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers; Florence in the second half of the century; Traces of international Gothic.

Brunelleschi and the revolution of perspective; The three fathers of the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio.

The first Renaissance: Florence in the first half of the XV century.

Florence in the second half of the XV century: The cultural environment of Lorenzo il Magnifico and Botticelli.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Rome artistic capital: Raffaello and Michelangelo.