University of Rome Tor VergataSchool of Global Governance
Prof. Anna Vyazemtseva
ROME : ART AND HISTORY OPENAIR - ONLINE2020-2021, 2nd semester
1st meeting:
The Eternal City.
History and City Development
2nd meeting:
The Eternal City
Types and Forms of Architecture and Art
3d meeting:
From Antiquity to
Christianity
4th meeting:
Rome of Popes:
Saint Peter
Cathedral
5th meeting:
Rome of Popes. Saint Peter Cathedral
under reconstruction. Part I
1506 - 1626
6th meeting:
Part I. Introduction to the Renaissance:
Art and Architecture in Rome from
Sixtus IV to Julius II.
7th meeting:
Part I. Architecture and power: Palaces of
Rome. Palazzo Venezia, Palazzo Capranica,
Palazzo dei Penitenzieri, Palazzo della
Cancelleria
7th meeting:
Part II. Architecture and power:
Palaces of Rome. Villa Chigi Farnesina,
Palazzo Farnese, Capitol Square
8th meeting:
Part I.
Baroque urban spaces: squares and roads
8th meeting:
Part I.
Baroque in Rome:
Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini
9th meeting:
Part I.
Baroque in Rome - 2
Re-use of the Past
10th meeting:
Part I.
Architecture under dictatorship:
EUR district.
10th meeting:
Part II.
Contemporary Art and Architecture in Rome
11th meeting:
Rome between the past and the present:
Ara Pacis Museum and its collection.
Final exam
Each student is invited to produce a short paper (circa 10 000 characters) on one monument in Rome,
which includes the history, the description of architectural details of the building, as well as the
analysis of its cultural and economic impact on the contemporary city.
Astudent must have attended at least 75% of classes.
The exam consists of 1 question on one of the topics from the program and a quiz on Roman monuments
(10 photos with monuments to recognize).
D. Watkin, A history of Western architecture, Laurence King, 2015
C. Frommel, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Thames&Hudson, 2007
A. Hopkins, Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini, Thames&Hudson, London 2002
R. Krautheimer, The Rome of Alexander VII 1655-1667, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1985
P. and L. Murray, The Art of the Renaissance, Thames&Hudson, London 1985 (and other editions)
R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600 to 1750, Penguin Books, Harmonsworth 1965 (and
other editions).
Bibliography
Lecturer
ANNA VYAZEMTSEVA
Ph.D. in the History of Arts and in the Architecture and construction
(History of Architecture). She studied at the doctorate course of the
University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and has been a post-doc fellow of the
University of Insubria. She also studied Arts and Heritge management in
Bocconi University.
Since 2015 she has been the adjunct professor at the Italian Universities
(IED, Politecnico di Milano, Roma Tre) and has been teaching the course
“Rome: Art and History Open Air” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Since 2010 she is leading research collaborator of the Institute of History
and Theory of Architecture and Urban planning in Moscow.
Anna Vyazemtseva is a member of AISTARCH (Associazione Italiana degli
Storici di Architettura), RAHN (Rome Art Historians Network), AISU
(Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana) and makes part of the editorial
group of BFO-Journal (Switzerland) and Voprosy Vseobshej Istorii
Arkhitektury (Russia).
Contacts: [email protected]
Publications: https://geo-social.academia.edu/AnnaVyazemtseva