| Unit name | Renaissance and Renaissance Revivals in Italian Gardens |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ARCHM0111 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Mr. Liversidge |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This is an option unit normally offered through a short intensive study visit with accompanying classes. The unit explores the development of ideals of country life associated with Renaissance villas and their gardens from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, related to aspects of Renaissance interest in landscape, the origins and sources of the villa idea and form in the classical past, and the cultural values attached to gardens as well as their forms and features. Medicean Florence, the Veneto and Tivoli will be the primary sites studied. The early evolution of baroque gardens and the revival of Renaissance styles in Anglo-american circles in Tuscany in the early-twentieth century are also briefly reviewed.
Aims:
The unit is designed to trace some of the formative influences and sources which affected the generation of Renaissance styles in other parts of Europe, and to provide a context for understanding and situating early formal gardens in England. The subject of revivalism in garden history, relevant to other units which examine aspects of Victorian and Edwardian gardens, is also introduced to students.
Students will learn about and develop an appreciation of the place of garden history within a cultural and environmental context that extends and expands the range of their experience in the subject, but which also contributes as source and by adoption to the mainstreams of English garden history. The different circumstances and conditions of conservation and heritage management should also contribute to broadening appreciation of other aspects of the programme.
Seminars or classes conducted through site visits over 5 weeks
