Exploring Palladio's Work: syllabus
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Paola Modesti, Venice International University
The course is divided into thematic units that include lectures, seminars, and visits pertaining to different aspects of Palladio’s works and life. Week 1 An introduction to Palladio’s architecture.Course and seminar instructions.
Seminar: ‘Renaissance’ architecture: essentials and observations.
Week 2 Architects and architectural practice in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries
Seminar: Palladio’s apprenticeship, education, and debuts as an architect
Week 3 The villa in fifteenth- and sixteenth- century Italy
Seminar: Palladio’s villas
Week 4 Visit to Palladio’s villas
Week 5 The architectural drawing to the sixteenth century: conventions and purposes
Seminar: Palladio’s drawings
Week 6 The palace in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy
Seminar: Vicenza and Palladio’s palaces
Week 7 Visit to Palladio’s works in Vicenza
Week 8 Midterm test.Deadline for submitting research projects
Seminar: Discussion on midterm tests and on final research projects
Week 9 Architectural theory and treatises from Vitruvio to Vignola
Seminar: The Four Books on Architecture
Week 10 Venice and the Renaissance / Palladio and Venice
Seminar: The Basilica of Vicenza and the Marciana Library in Venice
Week 11 Renaissance church design
Seminar: Palladio’s ecclesiastical architecture
Week 12 Visit to the churches of San Francesco della Vigna, the Redentore,
and San Giorgio Maggiore
