Reporter 6/11/02: History of Art Tripos, Part II, 2003: Special subjects

History of Art Tripos, Part II, 2003: Special subjects

The Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art give notice that they are unable to provide teaching for Papers 2 and 3 'Visual encounters between Europe and the Ottoman Empire' during the academical year 2002-03. They have accordingly amended their Notice about special subjects published in the Reporter of 6 June 2001 (p. 769) as follows:

Papers 2 and 3. Visual encounters between Europe and the Ottoman Empire

The above papers have been replaced by the following papers:

Papers 2 and 3. Art and Architecture in Rome, 1500-1527

These years encompass the High Renaissance in Rome, from the election of Pope Julius II, to the Sack of Rome by Imperial troops in 1527. It was a period in which, under the patronage of successive Popes, Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII, some of the grandest works of western painting, sculpture, and architecture were produced, by artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante. All of these undertook massively ambitious projects which marked a new phase in western art, one in which the achievements of classical antiquity were equalled if not surpassed: the Sistine ceiling, the Julius tomb, the Vatican Stanze, the Villa Madama, the Belvedere courtyard, and St Peter's. This course concentrates on the major projects and the major artistic personalities, situated in the context of the activities and patronage of the Popes and their courts. The antecedents of the Roman High Renaissance in Florence, Umbria, and Milan are also looked at, as are the activities of the artists of the next generation in Rome between the death of Raphael and the Sack.

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