TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF SITE AND MUSEM VISITS
Week 1
Session 1 Monday, 8 May 2006
Introduction at Centro Linguistico Dante Alighieri, CLIDA, Piazza della Repubblica 5
Mercato Vecchio = Old Piazza della Repubblica
Santa Maria Novella Church--Stazione Santa Maria Novella (architect + photographer G. Michelucci)
Palazzo Strozzi: Alberti: L'Uomo del Renascimiento (exhibition)
Session 2 Tuesday 9 May
Morning: Etruscan-Roman precedents in Fiesole. ATAF Bus 07
Afternoon: Museo Archeologico in Florence (Museum open until early evening)
Session 3 Wednesday 10 May
Urban settings: Piazza de la Signoria, Uffizi Ponte Vecchio.
Visit: Uffizi (emphasis on material in rooms 2, 7, 9, 10-14, 15, 18, and 25.
Session 4 Thursday 11 May
Corbusier in Florence: Visit to the Certosa d'Ema in Galluzzo. Bus 37 ATAF
Palazzi: Palazzo Rucellai and Loggia by Alberti.
Session 5 Friday 12 May
F. Brunelleschi's works and issues on perspective and architecture: visit the dome of the Duomo; Urban stroll from Orsanmichele passsing Ponte Vecchio to Giuseppe Poggi's Piazzale Michelangelo (1865-71) and to San Miniato del Monte (11th C)
Visit: San Miniato del Monte
Week 2
Session 6 Monday 15 May
Field Trip: Volterra (D.H. Lawrence) and San Gimigniano (precedents for American architect Louis Kahn)
Session 7 Tuesday 16 May
Meeting at CLIDA. Followed byMichelangelo: S. Lorenzo: Laurentian Library; Medici Chapel and Museum.
Session 8 Wednesday 17 May
Field Trip to San Galgano Abbey, Bagno Vignone (A. Tarkovsky's film settings)
Session 9 Thursday 18 May
Gardens and urban space: Piazzi Trinita, Sto. Spirito; Palazzo Pitti (Boboli Gardens) @12:00.
Session 10 Friday 19 May
New ways of seeing - Photography in Florence: Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, Largo Alinari, 15: From Mugello to Firenze in the Images of Alinari.
Visit to L'Accademia @ 11:45.
Week 3
Sessions 11-15 Monday, 22 May to 26 May
Partcipants will use this week to develop notebook/diary and explore individually or in groups the city. Consolidation of essays.
Week 4
Session 16 Monday, 29 May
Afternoon (15h00): Sta Croce, Pazzi Chapel in Sta Croce precinct. Piazza Sta Croce (De Chirico's epiphany).
Passeggiata
Session 17 Tuesday, 30 May
Museum of San Marco (Fra Angelico - Savonarola)
Passeggiata
Session 18 Wednesday, 31 May
Uffizi: La mente di Leonardo da Vinci
Passeggiata
Session 19 Thursday, 01 June
TBA
Session 20 Friday, 02 June
Class discussion, submission of essay and notebooks
Campanile di Giotto (final visit).
End of Summer Course in Florence (Ital309)
