Topic: Bernini¿s Rome: Maps, Prints, Books

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
1:00pm-4:00pm
Tu
Carlos Hall 211
Sarah McPhee. HAPW. 42875 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Catalog Description: Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.

Semester Details:  

This seminar will consider Early Modern representations of the city of Rome drawn from the rich holdings of Emory's libraries and museum. Students will work with original documents: maps, prints and rare books, to consider such topics as topography and urban development in cartographic images of the Eternal City, the tradition of the Roman architectural views or vedute; prints of ephemeral events from papal funerals to the moving of obelisks; guidebooks and pilgrimage paths through the city. Among the artists, architects, and etcher/engravers we will consider are: Pirro Ligorio, Giovanni Battista Falda, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Giambattista Piranesi.

The schedule of courses on O.P.U.S. is the official listing of courses, including days and times they meet and the General Education Requirements they satisfy. Students should use course descriptions as general guidelines. Course requirements, grading details, book lists, and syllabi are subject to change.