Courtauld summer school day 5
A super last day to finish the course which left me with food for thought and already wondering what I can so next year to build on it.
The first session was on the School of Raphael looking at how he built up a workshop to complete the huge amount of work he must have been involved in and how that style spread throughout Europe after the Sack of Rome in 1527. Raphael was therefore behind the Baroque, the model for decorative schemes for the next two centuries and consolidated the classical architectural style. I have to admit as someone who thinks things start going awry in art from the late C18th onwards until the Pre-Raphs in the C29th j’accuse Raphael!
The next session was on the Sack of Rome itself looking no only at the event itself and the damage done but also looking at the long term effects. Over 10,000 people were killed in the sack with many more dying of disease in the following months. At least two libraries were destroyed, one of the Raphael tapestry’s in the Sistine was damaged and the Papal registers were torn up an used as horse litter. However long term the city seemed to recover remarkably well. Many of the artistic and architectural schemes which had started were completes and the population had recovered their numbers by 1900.
The afternoon was the National Gallery again concentrating on two pictures “The Raising of Lazarus” by Sebestiano del Piombo and “The Madonna and Child with Saints” by Parmigianino. In front of these we discussed what the High Renaissance was, whether it is a distinct period or just a transition and whether it morphed into the Baroque.
All in all a really good week (apologies it’s taken me a week to get round to writing up this last day). I can’t wait for next years list to come out and I might even look into evening classes!
The first session was on the School of Raphael looking at how he built up a workshop to complete the huge amount of work he must have been involved in and how that style spread throughout Europe after the Sack of Rome in 1527. Raphael was therefore behind the Baroque, the model for decorative schemes for the next two centuries and consolidated the classical architectural style. I have to admit as someone who thinks things start going awry in art from the late C18th onwards until the Pre-Raphs in the C29th j’accuse Raphael!
The next session was on the Sack of Rome itself looking no only at the event itself and the damage done but also looking at the long term effects. Over 10,000 people were killed in the sack with many more dying of disease in the following months. At least two libraries were destroyed, one of the Raphael tapestry’s in the Sistine was damaged and the Papal registers were torn up an used as horse litter. However long term the city seemed to recover remarkably well. Many of the artistic and architectural schemes which had started were completes and the population had recovered their numbers by 1900.
The afternoon was the National Gallery again concentrating on two pictures “The Raising of Lazarus” by Sebestiano del Piombo and “The Madonna and Child with Saints” by Parmigianino. In front of these we discussed what the High Renaissance was, whether it is a distinct period or just a transition and whether it morphed into the Baroque.
All in all a really good week (apologies it’s taken me a week to get round to writing up this last day). I can’t wait for next years list to come out and I might even look into evening classes!
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