Early Summer Gap Year Course 2013 Group A 22nd April - 3rd June 2013 Rome and Naples April Please Note: The descriptions below are deliberately brief, naming only those places to be definitely seen. AHA tutors are experts in their fields and may well have other places in mind to see. The flexibility and spontaneity offered to tutors is an important aspect of the course. Monday 22nd Travel to Italy. See travel arrangements. Tuesday 23rd day Classical Rome I. The Forum, the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine. Before supper a 40 minute session on the rudiments of Italian. Wednesday 24th day Early Christian art in Rome. S. Agnese fuori le Mure, Sta Costanza, San Clemente. Thursday 25th am Renaissance Rome. The Tempietto and the Villa Farnesina. Raphael and Bramante. Classical Rome II. The Pantheon, the Ara Pacis and the tomb of Augustus. Before supper a 40 minute session on the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Friday 26th day Baroque Day. To include works of Borromini, Bernini and Pietro da Cortona. Palazzo Barbarini, San Carlo al Quatro Fontane and Santa Maria della Vittoria. Saturday 27th day St Peter's and the Vatican City. Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, Caravaggio and Roman sculpture.
Sunday 28th day Free day. Students must be out of bed by 11.30. If students want to go out of Rome, we would ask that they let the tutor know where they are going and to have swapped 'phone numbers. Monday 29th day English Romantic Poets in Rome. Keats Museum and the English Cemetery. Before supper a 40 minute session on the Risorgimento and Garibaldi. Tuesday 30th day Tivoli and Hadrian's Villa. May Wednesday 1st am Baroque Sculpture and Painting. Villa Borghese: Bernini and Caravaggio. Baroque Patronage. The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and Caravaggio at S.Luigi Francese and S. Agostino and Sta. Maria del Popolo. Before supper a 40 minute session on the rudiments of Italian and preparation for Naples. Thursday 2nd am Depart for Naples stopping at Subiaco, the first Benedictine monastery. Friday 3rd am Classical Art and Life. The Archeological Museum. Introduction to Naples at San Martino. Before supper a 40 minute session on Mythology. Saturday 4th day Pompeii and Vesuvius. Sunday 5th day Free day. Students must be out of bed by 11.30. If students want to go outside Naples, we would ask that they let the tutor know where they are going and to have swapped 'phone numbers.
Monday 6th am Neapolitan Painting. The Churches of Spaccanapoli, the Duomo and the Sn Acts of Mercy by Caravaggio. Capodimonte Gallery of Art. Neapolitan Painting. Before supper a 40 minute session on Gardens and preparation for Siena. Tuesday 7th am Depart for Siena, stopping at the great Mannerist garden at Bomarzo. Before supper a 40 minute session on Guelphs and Ghibellines. Siena and Florence Wednesday 8th am An Introduction to Siena. Piazza and Palazzo Pubblico. Simone Martini and Lorenzetti bros. The Church in Siena. The Duomo, the Duomo Museum and the Baptistery. Duccio, Jacopo della Quercia. Thursday 9th day Arezzo. San Francesco decorated by Piero della Francesca. Friday 10th am The Crypt of the Cathedral and the Hospital. Duccio. Sienese Painting. The Pinacoteca and possibly the Oratorio di San Bernadetto. Beccafumi and Sodema. Saturday 11th am Depart for Florence. Florentine Painting. Uffizi I. Giotto, Simone Martini, Gentile da Fabriano, Piero della Francesca, Uccello, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Bronzino, Michelangelo.
Sunday 12th am Introduction to Florentine History. Piazza and Palazzo della Signoria. Free. Monday 13th am Patronage of the Medici Family. Palazzo Medici, San Lorenzo, San Marco. Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Angelico, Brunelleschi. The Duomo and Baptistery. Brunelleschi, Uccello. Tuesday 14th am Florentine Sculpture. The Bargello, Orsanmichele and the Piazza della Signoria. Ghiberti, Donatello, Giambologna, Verrocchio. Michelangelo. Free Wednesday 15th am Florentine Fifteenth Century Painting and Patronage. The Brancacci Chapel and Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai. Masaccio, Uccello, Alberti. Florentine Painting. Uffizi II. Largely non Florentine Painters to include Parmigianino, Titian, Caravaggio, and many more. Thursday 16th day Pisa. The Duomo, the leaning tower and the Baptistery. Friday 17th am Michelangelo. The Accademia, the New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library. Church Design and Chapel Patronage. Santa Trinita and Santo Spirito. Ghirlandaio and Brunelleschi.
Saturday 18th am Sixteenth Century and Mannerism. Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Felicita and Palazzo Pitti. Vasari, Pontormo, Bronzino, Pietro da Cortona, Ammannati. The Franciscans. Santa Croce and the Pazzi Chapel. Giotto, Donatello and Brunelleschi. Sunday 19th am Free San Miniato. Monday 20th am Off the beaten Track. The Chiostro dello Scalzo, Ognissanti and other lesser known sites. Exhibition 'The Springtime of the Renaissance' at Palazzo Strozzi. Verona and Venice Tuesday 21st day Depart for Verona. Before supper a 40 minute session in preparation for Verona. Wednesday 22nd am Introduction to Verona and Ducal Power. The amphitheatre, the Torre Lamberti and the Scaliger tombs. San Zeno. Romanesque architecture and bronze sculpture and Mantegna. Thursday 23rd day Mantua. S. Andrea, Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Te. Giulio Romano, Alberti, Mantegna, Pisanello. Friday 24th am Church Architecture and Painting. Garden design. S Anastasia and the Duomo. Titian, Pisanello. The Giardini Giusti. Picnic
Before supper a 40 minute session in preparation for Vicenza and Venice. Saturday 25th day Depart Verona. Vicenza. Palladian architecture, Villa Capra, the Teatro Olymplico and the Basilica. Arrive Venice. Sunday 26th am Introduction to Venice. The Maritime Republic. Piazza San Marco and the Doge's Palace from the exterior. 20th Century Painting and Sculpture. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum. Monday 27th am Franciscans and Scuole. The Frari and Scuola di San Rocco. Titian and Tintoretto. Palladio Churches. San Giorgio Maggiore. The Redentore. Tuesday 28th day Padua. Giotto at the Arena Chapel, The Duomo and Sant'Antonio. Giotto, Donatello and the Lombardi brothers. Wednesday 29th am The Myth of Venice. The Ca'Rezzonico and the eighteenth century. Canaletto, Guardi and Tiepolo. Venetian Painting. The Accademia. Titian, Veronese, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Tintoretto. San Marco. A private view after hours. Thursday 30th day The Islands of the Lagoon. Torcello, Burrano and Burrano. Friday 31st am The Ghetto.
Free June Saturday 1st am The Venetian Renaissance Painting. San Zaccaria, Scuola dei Schiavone, San Giovanni in Bragora, SS Giovani e Paolo. Bellini, Cima and Carpaccio. Sixteenth Century Church Painting. San Sebastiano and Santa Maria della Salute. Veronese and Titian. Sunday 2nd day The Biennale. The largest exhibition of Contemporary Art in Europe. Monday 3rd am Return to England.
Early Summer Gap Year Course 2013 Group B 22nd April - 3rd June 2013 Rome and Naples April Please Note: The descriptions below are deliberately brief, naming only those places to be definitely seen. AHA tutors are experts in their fields and may well have other places in mind to see. The flexibility and spontaneity offered to tutors is an important aspectof the course Monday 22nd Travel to Italy. See travel arrangements. Tuesday 23rd day Early Christian art in Rome. S. Agnese fuori le Mure, Sta Costanza, San Clemente. Before supper a 40 minute session on the rudiments of Italian. Wednesday 24th day Classical Rome I. The Forum, the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine. Thursday 25th day St Peter's and the Vatican City. Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, Caravaggio and Roman sculpture. Before supper a 40 minute session on the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Friday 26th day Baroque Day. To include works of Borromini, Bernini and Pietro da Cortona. Palazzo Barbarini, San Carlo al Quatro Fontane and Santa Maria della Vittoria. Saturday 27th day Baroque Sculpture and Painting. Villa Borghese: Bernini and Caravaggio. Baroque Patronage. The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and Caravaggio at S.Luigi Francese and S. Agostino and Sta. Maria del Popolo.
Sunday 28th day Free day. Students must be out of bed by 11.30. If students want to go out of Rome, we would ask that they let the tutor know where they are going and to have swapped 'phone numbers. Monday 29th day Renaissance Rome. The Tempietto and the Villa Farnesina. Raphael and Bramante. Classical Rome II. The Pantheon, the Ara Pacis and the tomb of Augustus. Before supper a 40 minute session on the Risorgimento and Garibaldi. Tuesday 30th day Tivoli and Hadrian's Villa. May Wednesday 1st day English Romantic Poets in Rome. Keats Museum and the English Cemetery. Before supper a 40 minute session on the rudiments of Italian and preparation for Naples. Thursday 2nd am Depart for Naples stopping at Subiaco, the first Benedictine monastery. Friday 3rd am Classical Art and Life. The Archeological Museum. Introduction to Naples at San Martino. Before supper a 40 minute session on Mythology. Saturday 4th day Pompeii and Vesuvius. Sunday 5th day Free day. Students must be out of bed by 11.30. If students want to go outside Naples, we would ask that they let the tutor know where they are going and to have swapped 'phone numbers.
Monday 6th am Neapolitan Painting. The Churches of Spaccanapoli, the Duomo and the Sn Acts of Mercy by Caravaggio. Capodimonte Gallery of Art. Neapolitan Painting. Before supper a 40 minute session on Gardens and preparation for Siena. Tuesday 7th am Depart for Siena, stopping at the great Mannerist garden at Bomarzo. Before supper a 40 minute session on Guelphs and Ghibellines. Siena and Florence Wednesday 8th am The Church in Siena. The Duomo, the Duomo Museum and the Baptistery. Duccio, Jacopo della Quercia. An Introduction to Siena. Piazza and Palazzo Pubblico. Simone Martini and Lorenzetti bros. Thursday 9th day Arezzo. San Francesco decorated by Piero della Francesca. Friday 10th am The Crypt of the Cathedral and the Hospital. Duccio. Sienese Painting. The Pinacoteca and possibly the Oratorio di San Bernadetto. Beccafumi and Sodema. Saturday 11th am Depart for Florence. Introduction to Florentine History. Piazza and Palazzo della Signoria.
Sunday 12th am Florentine Painting. Uffizi I. Giotto, Simone Martini, Gentile da Fabriano, Piero della Francesca, Uccello, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Bronzino, Michelangelo. Free. Monday 13th am The Duomo and Baptistery. Brunelleschi, Uccello. Florentine Fifteenth Century Painting and Patronage. The Brancacci Chapel and Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai. Masaccio, Uccello, Alberti. Tuesday 14th am Sixteenth Century and Mannerism. Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Felicita and Palazzo Pitti. Vasari, Pontormo, Bronzino, Pietro da Cortona, Ammannati. The Franciscans. Santa Croce and the Pazzi Chapel. Giotto, Donatello and Brunelleschi. Wednesday 15th am Florentine Sculpture. The Bargello, Orsanmichele and the Piazza della Signoria. Ghiberti, Donatello, Giambologna, Verrocchio. Michelangelo. Free Thursday 16th day Pisa. The Duomo, the leaning tower and the Baptistery. Friday 17th am Patronage of the Medici Family. Palazzo Medici, San Lorenzo, San Marco. Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Angelico, Brunelleschi. Florentine Painting. Uffizi II. Largely non Florentine Painters to include Parmigianino, Titian, Caravaggio, and many more.
Saturday 18th am Michelangelo. The Accademia, the New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library. Church Design and Chapel Patronage. Santa Trinita and Santo Spirito. Ghirlandaio and Brunelleschi. Sunday 19th am Free San Miniato. Monday 20th am Exhibition 'The Springtime of the Renaissance' at Palazzo Strozzi. Off the beaten Track. The Chiostro dello Scalzo, Ognissanti and other lesser known sites. Verona and Venice Tuesday 21st day Depart for Verona. Before supper a 40 minute session in preparation for Verona. Wednesday 22nd am Introduction to Verona and Ducal Power. The amphitheatre, the Torre Lamberti and the Scaliger tombs. San Zeno. Romanesque architecture and bronze sculpture and Mantegna. Thursday 23rd day Mantua. S. Andrea, Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Te. Giulio Romano, Alberti, Mantegna, Pisanello. Friday 24th am Church Architecture and Painting. Garden design. S Anastasia and the Duomo. Titian, Pisanello. The Giardini Giusti. Picnic
Before supper a 40 minute session in preparation for Vicenza and Venice. Saturday 25th day Depart Verona. Vicenza. Palladian architecture, Villa Capra, the Teatro Olymplico and the Basilica. Arrive Venice. Sunday 26th am Introduction to Venice. The Maritime Republic. Piazza San Marco and the Doge's Palace from the exterior. Venetian Painting. The Accademia. Titian, Veronese, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Tintoretto. Monday 27th am Franciscans and Scuole. The Frari and Scuola di San Rocco. Titian and Tintoretto. Palladio Churches. San Giorgio Maggiore. The Redentore. Tuesday 28th day Padua. Giotto at the Arena Chapel, The Duomo and Sant'Antonio. Giotto, Donatello and the Lombardi brothers. Wednesday 29th am 20th Century Painting and Sculpture. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum. The Ghetto. San Marco. A private view after hours. Thursday 30th day The Islands of the Lagoon. Torcello, Burrano and Burrano. Friday 31st am The Venetian Renaissance Painting. San Zaccaria, Scuola dei Schiavone, San Giovanni in Bragora, SS Giovani e Paolo. Bellini, Cima and Carpaccio.
June Sixteenth Century Church Painting. San Sebastiano and Santa Maria della Salute. Veronese and Titian. Saturday 1st am The Myth of Venice. The Ca'Rezzonico and the eighteenth century. Canaletto, Guardi and Tiepolo. Free Sunday 2nd day The Biennale. The largest exhibition of Contemporary Art in Europe. Monday 3rd am Return to England.