The course is a journey through Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Florentine Renaissance.

The course includes the following topics:

• The precursors of the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th Centuries: Giotto and Cimabue
• The birth of Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture: Donatello, Brunelleschi and Alberti
• The first Renaissance Painting: Masaccio, Masolino, Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi
• Arts and Philosophy: Piero della Francesca and Botticelli
• The Renaissance out of Florence: from Antonello da Messina to Andrea Mantegna
• Teachers of the Masters: Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio and Perugino
• Leonardo Da Vinci: the Universal Genius
• Michelangelo: The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Raphael: The Art of Divine Grace
• Titian and Giorgione: Pioneers of Color and Light
• Mannerism, the Art of Transition: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
• The end of Mannerist, from Renaissance to Baroque: Parmigianino and Giulio Romano
• The rise of Baroque, light and shadow: Carracci and Caravaggio
• The opulence of Baroque architecture: Bernini and Borromini
• Neoclassical Sculpture: Canova’s vision
• David Nash and the Neoclassical Revolution in Art
• Romanticism in Painting: Géricault, Delacroix, Ingres and Turner
• Towards 19° century: Napoleon Art and Realism
• Brushtrokes of Change: The Revolution of Impressionism
• From Impressionism to Neo Impressionism: a new Vision