UC Davis Seminars Abroad, "Rome—Art and the City" Info Session

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A world capital for over 2000 years, Rome has the greatest historical range of art and architecture of any major city. The class will meet entirely on-site (no classroom lectures or exams) with visits to ancient, medieval, and Renaissance and later art and architecture in Rome, and with excursions outside the city proper. http://studyabroad.ucdavis.edu

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AHI 198 Rome: Art and the City2 units, P/NP grading only

20 December 2014 – 2 January 2015Financial Aid applies—enrollment ends May 20

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Prof. Jeffrey Ruda

jhruda@ucdavis.edu

Everson 152, by appointment

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Why Rome?

or, why just Rome?

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Corso Vittorio Emmanuele,looking east from Palazzo Cancelleria

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Why Rome?

or, why just Rome?

A course in thinking about what you see—how to look intensively,

especially at unfamiliar material

All lecture-discussion is on site

Critical journal as graded activity

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Gianlorenzo BerniniMedusa, 1630s (?)Capitoline Museums

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Itinerary: The Roman Forum

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Itinerary: The Vatican Palace & St. Peter’s Basilica

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Itinerary: The Capitoline Museums;Santa Maria in Aracoeli

Marcus Aurelius, 175 C.E.

The Campidoglio

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Itinerary: The Capitoline Museums;Santa Maria in Aracoeli

Lady of the Flavian period, c. 90 C.E.

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Itinerary (morning): The Vatican Museums

Michelangelo da CaravaggioThe Entombment of Christ, 1602-03

Augustus of Prima Porta, Early 1st century C.E.

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Itinerary (afternoon):Renaissance urbanism

Itinerary (afternoon):Renaissance urbanism

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Via Giulia looking west

Itinerary (afternoon):Renaissance urbanism

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Campo dei Fiori looking east

Itinerary: The Pantheon to Palazzo Doria

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Diego VelazquezPope Innocent X, c. 1650

Itinerary: Villa Borghese & Villa Giulia

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Gianlorenzo BerniniApollo and Daphne, 1622-25Villa Borghese

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Itinerary: Villa Borghese & Villa Giulia

Antonio CanovaPauline Bonaparte as Venus, 1805-08Villa Borghese

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Itinerary: Villa Borghese & Villa Giulia

RaphaelThe Deposition, or Entombment, 1507Villa Borghese

Itinerary: Villa Borghese & Villa Giulia

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Itinerary: Villa Borghese & Villa Giulia

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EtruscanCista “Ficoroni” (detail), late $th century BCEVilla Giulia

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Itinerary: Trastevere

Pietro CavalliniThe Birth of the Virgin Mary, c. 1290

Santa Maria in Trastevere

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Itinerary: Trastevere

Bartolomeo Peruzzi, Perspectives Room, c. 1510Villa Farnesina (Villa Chigi)

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Itinerary: Trastevere

Bartolomeo Peruzzi, Perspectives Room, c. 1510Villa Farnesina (Villa Chigi)

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Itinerary: Tivoli

The Canopus, Hadrian’s Villac. 110-30 CE

“Temple of Vesta,”early 1st century BCE

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Itinerary: Tivoli

Villa d’Este, 1550-72

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