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Rome Eternal: Constancy and Change

On Campus Component: May 12, 2008 Rome Component: May 20 - June 10, 2008

CANCELED - We will be offering this program again in 2009

This study abroad program is coordinated by the Northern Illinois University Study Abroad Office (SAO), in cooperation with the Art History Division in NIU the School of Art.

PROGRAM DATES: The program will officially begin on Monday, May 12 in DeKalb for preparatory work. Students will meet in Rome on Tuesday evening, May 20, of the following week, and the program will end on Tuesday evening, June 10, 2008. Students will be responsible for making their own air travel arrangements in order to arrive in Rome on Tuesday, May 20.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Mary Quinlan-McGrath, is a professor of Art History in the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts. Professor Quinlan is a specialist in Roman art, architecture, and urbanism (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1983). She loves the city, and has published over 300 pages of scholarly articles on the art and culture of Renaissance Rome. Professor Quinlan has also received a number of prestigious Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies) in recognition of this Roman research.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW/OBJECTIVES: Hopefully this program will form the beginning of a lifelong relationship between the student participants and this great city. The course will provide a broad base of historical knowledge, and the experience of centuries of the city’s visual culture through site visits and lectures. Beyond this broad base, students will develop a personal research project on an aspect of Roman art that intrigues them. Being in Rome with the opportunity to ask research questions about a work that is compelling, finding provisional answers, and interpreting the information in a personal and insightful way, will give students the beginning of that lifelong connection with the city. Students may earn either 3 or 6 hours of University credit through the special topics course ARTH485/685, and the optional Independent Study course. The course will be organized around these goals:

  1. To give students a basic grounding in Roman urban topography and history;

  2. To provide information about and first-hand experience of Rome’s many important works of art and architecture; and

  3. To develop the students’ awareness of the city as a living organism – not a static museum of isolated monuments, but a complex and ever-evolving fabric in which history, art, architecture, and human ambitions have constantly interacted to change the city.

PROGRAM SITE(S): The program will take place in Rome, Italy. Students will have their weekends free. Optional weekend trips to Venice, Florence, and Naples are recommended.

HIGHLIGHTS: See Syllabus. The group will visit major sites of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Rome, with attention given to the modern city.

PROGRAM AUDIENCE: Space is limited to 10 persons, and qualified applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis. The program is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. Participants do not need to be art or art history majors, but priority in admissions will be given to students with a general background in art history (one or more survey-level courses). The program is open to non-traditional students, provided they can meet the academic and health requirements.

INSTRUCTION METHOD: The course will be carried out through a variety of teaching modes. On-site visits will include lectures to provide context and analysis for the monuments and issues we study. Significantly, these visits will involve the active participation of the students, who will all be assigned particular monuments to discuss with the class.

Students signed up for 3 credit hours will be evaluated on the basis of lecture/discussion, journals, and research papers. (See syllabus for details.) They will be expected to be present for all course activities, including lectures, walking tours and site visits. Their journals will be the record of their lecture notes, research developments, impressions, and experiences. This will be handed in at the end of each week of the program. The students will have daily reading assignments as well, which they will summarize as part of their journal assignment. Graduate students will be held to professional standards of critical reading, discussion, and writing.

The final term paper will focus on a single work of architecture, sculpture, or painting, which the student will select in consultation with the instructor. In order to receive a grade for the course, students will type and submit a final draft to the instructor upon their return to campus. This paper will be an analytical exercise designed to train the student in engaging with works of art and architecture from a variety of perspectives. The textbook by Sylvan Barnet is a good research guide. In art history, trends toward methodologies from critical theory began to dominate the field in the decade of the 1980’s, resulting in what we may perhaps characterize as the more rigorous and self-aware discipline we recognize today. Within the past couple of years, however, art historians have begun to recognize that formal analysis, traditionally the most characteristic and even defining element of our expertise and training, has fallen by the wayside. In addition to threatening our basic identity as a discipline, this circumstance may suggest an increasing lack of comfort in dealing with and analyzing objects, which, as has been argued, remain essential to art historical research as well as museum curatorial concerns. Rather than continuing to bypass formal analysis and connoisseurship as an integral part of art historical training, this immersion in daily art and its analysis will provide an indispensable opportunity to develop students as art historians for the 21st century.

Students who choose to enroll in an additional 3 hours of independent study, either graduate or undergraduate, will choose a research-based project focusing on a monument or theme, and submit a second typed paper after returning to campus. This project will involve on-site visual analysis, as well as library research carried out before, during, and after the program in Rome has been completed. In addition to use of the NIU libraries for this project, interested graduate students will be granted access to the library of the American Academy in Rome. Under special circumstances the AAR may bend its library rules to include an undergraduate.

Most course activities will take place during the mornings and early afternoons, leaving the late afternoons and most evenings free. There will also be some free days (including weekends) in which the students can return to sites that particularly interest them, explore various parts of the city and its surroundings, work on their individual projects, or relax. There will be at least 15 contact hours per week, and sometimes more.

PROGRAM ACADEMIC CREDIT: For satisfactory participation in the program, participants will be enrolled for the summer 2008 term for 3 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate credit in one of the following NIU courses.

UNDERGRADUATE CREDIT:
  ARTH 485:   Topics in Art History                                                                      3 semester hours
Description:  This course will survey the history of urbanism, architecture, sculpture, and painting in the city of Rome from the period of the Etruscans to the present day.  Our meetings will be on-site, and we will not, therefore, spend time in a traditional classroom.  Instead, we will have our lectures in the Roma forum, inside and around famous Roman buildings, in historical churches, and in museums.  The main basis for assessment will be a journal to be kept by each student, as well as a research paper.

 

GRADUATE CREDIT:
  ARTH 685:   Topics in Art History                                                                      3 semester hours
Description:  In-depth research on specific artists, movements, periods, or problems in the history of Roman art.

INDEPENDENT STUDY/RESEARCH PROJECT: Individuals desiring to earn three additional hours of undergraduate or graduate credit may do so by engaging in an independent study-research project under the direction of Professor Mary Quinlan, program director. The research report should be at least 10 pages for undergraduate credit and 25 for graduate credit, and it is to be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation.

Requirements for Independent Study/Research Project: In order to obtain the approval from the course or major department chair and Professor Quinlan, program director, applicants must:

  1. Relate the project to a topic or subject that is part of the program.
  2. Complete and submit the project for feasibility to Professor Quinlan no later than May 10, 2008.
     

Participants who enroll for the independent research project will receive 3 semester hours of credit in one of the following NIU courses:

UNDERGRADUATE CREDIT:
ART 490:  Independent Research in Art History                                                         3 semester hours
Description:  Work on individual problems in the Student's major field.
Prerequisite:   Consent of school
GRADUATE CREDIT:
ART 603:  Independent Study in the History  of Art                                                    3 semester hours
Description:  Independent Study in the History of Art 3 semester hours Description: Individual research in special problems and original subjects in art history as determined by student and program director
Prerequisite:   Permission of advisor.

APPLICATION AND ADMISSION PROCEDURES: The program is open to undergraduate and graduate level students who meet the NIU general admission requirements, and who are interested in any program of study. Currently enrolled students must meet College of Visual and Performing Arts course GPA requirements. Graduate level students must also meet NIU Graduate School admission, course and GPA requirements.

Students must be in good academic and disciplinary standing at the time of application. Students who are on academic or disciplinary probation are not eligible to participate in study abroad programs. Applicants must participate in the entire program and satisfy NIU undergraduate or graduate admission and course requirements.

Students cannot have any encumbrances against their NIU records. Any encumbrances placed on a student’s records by NIU (i.e., the Graduate School, Undergraduate Admissions, Bursar’s Office, Accounts Receivable, Registration and Records, Health Services, Parking Services, etc.) must be cleared before a student is granted admission to a study abroad program.

For undergraduate students to be admitted to the program, an applicant’s official transcript must be on file in the NIU Study Abroad Office. Students who are currently enrolled at NIU, or who have previously enrolled at NIU, do not need to request an official transcript; the Study Abroad Office will make this request on behalf of the applicant. Students who want to participate in the program and earn academic credit from NIU who have not previously enrolled at NIU, or who are not currently enrolled at NIU, should ask the Registrar at their institution to forward an official transcript as soon as possible to the Study Abroad Office. (Student-issued transcripts and photocopies are not acceptable.) Questions relating to the admission requirements or transcripts should be directed to the Study Abroad Office.

Students who desire to obtain graduate credit must either be admitted to a graduate program within the NIU Graduate School, or be admitted to the status of a "student-at-large" (SAL) within NIU's Graduate School. For students to be admitted to the program for graduate credit, the applicant's official transcript must be on file in the NIU SAO. Students who are currently enrolled at NIU, or who have previously enrolled at NIU, do not need to request an official transcript. However, students who will participate in the program in order to earn academic credit as an SAL (students who have not currently enrolled, nor are previously enrolled at NIU) must provide a transcript from the baccalaureate institution and from any institution at which graduate credit has been earned. This document must be provided to the SAO before a student can be admitted as an SAL to the program. (Student issued transcripts and photocopies are not acceptable.)

APPLICATION FORMS AND DEPOSIT: Applicants must submit the following at the time of application:

  1. Application for NIU Administered/Faculty Directed Study Abroad Programs
  2. Student Application Agreement
  3. Course Preference Form
  4. $200 deposit
  5. TWO recent photos (passport-size, 2 inches x 2 inches). Vending machine photos are not acceptable.
  6. A clear and readable copy of the first page of passport

$200 DEPOSIT: Each application must be accompanied by a $200 check or money order made payable to NIU. The $200 will be applied to the program cost. Applications that are not accompanied by the $200 deposit will be returned to the sender. (This $200 is also required of individuals who will be applying for financial aid.)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 14, 2008 - EXTENDED to April 1, 2008. Applications submitted to the Study Abroad Office after March 14, 2008 must be accompanied by a check or money order for the full program cost in order to be considered for acceptance in this program. Applications not accompanied by the full program costs cannot be accepted by the Study Abroad Office.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND MEALS: Participants will reside in hotel accommodations shared with other students of the same gender with bath and toilet facilities down the hall and will be provided meals on two special occasions throughout the period of residency.

 The hotel will be Residence Ponte Bianco, based on student satisfaction in past years. It consists of clean double rooms with small “kitchen corners” and includes regular maid service. The Residence is located within easy tram access to Trastevere and the larger historic center of Rome.

There are numerous inexpensive eating places and food stores located close to the Residence Ponte Bianco, as well as throughout the city. Students can purchase a typical Italian breakfast of a pastry and coffee at any one of several places for about 2 Euro ($2.60). Food shops in the neighborhood may sell the items to make sandwiches, for those who wish to economize on lunches. About 15 Euro ($20) would pay for a substantial lunch or dinner in a restaurant. Much cheaper meals can be purchased at tavole calde, which provide full, healthy, and delicious food in a setting that is equivalent to the American food service industry. Dinner possibilities include the excellent and inexpensive rosticcerie (something like an American cafeteria), pizzerie, and several small cafes. An estimate of what students will spend per day on food varies between $20 and $45. How much students spend will be determined by their own choices of where and what they eat. The range of estimated costs for food during the program would be from about $600 to $1200.

AIR TRANSPORTATION: Individuals will be responsible for making their own air travel arrangements between the U.S. and Rome and for purchasing their tickets from a travel agent or airline of their choice. (Travel insurance is recommended.) Participants should keep in mind that in order to arrive in Rome in time for the official beginning of the program on May 20, they must plan to depart the U.S. no later than May 19, 2008. For information regarding airfares and airlines students may wish to check-out additional airfare sites on the Internet.

Important - The Study Abroad Office advises all participants that flight reservations for this program should not be booked until:

a. After the March 14 application deadline
       AND
b. The SAO has accepted the minimum number of participants needed to operate this program.

This advisory is given so that participants do not find themselves financially responsible for airline tickets should it be necessary to cancel the program. In addition, it is for this reason (and others, including illness, emergency situations, etc.) that the Study Abroad Office strongly recommends purchasing travel insurance at the time you book your airline ticket. (Also wee section entitled, CANCELLATION OF THE PROGRAM)

LAND TRANSPORTATION: For program-related travel the group will travel by bus and train. Program-related transportation is provided as part of the NIU program cost. All busses and trains are operated by the city of Rome and government of Italy.

PASSPORT: --IMPORTANT--All participants are required to possess a valid passport by April 1, 2008. Important Note: U.S. passports must be valid SIX months beyond the intended stay overseas. Individuals who do not currently possess a valid passport should apply for one immediately upon acceptance into the program. (Applicants applying after April 1 may need to request expedited services or apply in person at the Chicago Passport Agency. If applicants are not within the Chicago area, they must apply at the nearest passport agency.) Information on acquiring a U.S. passport is available at the U.S. State Department’s website: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html. Foreign passport holders may need special visas for travel and are responsible for obtaining all necessary visas.

VISA: A visa is not required for this program. However, if students wish to remain in Italy or elsewhere in Europe for a number of months following the completion of our program on June 10, 2008, a visa may be required.

NIU MAJOR MEDICAL INSURANCE: NIU Student health insurance is required for participation in an NIU study abroad program. Participants not currently enrolled in the NIU insurance plan will be enrolled in the NIU major medical Insurance Plan (comprehensive) that has a $250 deductible clause. Students requiring medical attention will be expected to pay any related costs and then file a claim with the NIU Student Insurance Office after returning to the States. Receipts showing payment for all medical expenses are required for reimbursement.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT I.D. CARD: The ISIC card is provided as part of the program cost. The I.D. card can provide discount on international airfare and other travel. Students will receive an application and instructions for obtaining this card when accepted into the program. The International Student Identity Card also includes a limited health and accident insurance policy which is only valid outside the U.S. Students will have to pay bills at the time of treatment and will be reimbursed later. Students should, however, have a more comprehensive insurance plan to supplement the ID insurance.

FINANCIAL AID: As a participant in a study abroad program through NIU, applicants may be eligible for: Pell Grant, SEOG, Perkins Loan, PLUS Loan, Subsidized or Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, MAP Award or your privately awarded scholarship with consent of awarding organization. Tuition waivers do not apply.

Please contact Pamela Rosenberg, International Programs Business Manager, Williston Hall 407, (815) 753-9530, prosenberg@niu.edu  for more information.

NIU PROGRAM COST: The cost of the program in Italy is payable in full to NIU by April 1, 2008. The program cost pays for the following cost related services:
  1. Hotel accommodations and two meals total while the group is in Italy.
  2. Program-related land transportation in Italy.
  3. Admission fees to program-related cultural and historical sites visited as part of the daily schedule.
  4. International Student I.D. Card.
  5. NIU tuition for undergraduate or graduate credit.
  6. NIU major medical insurance.

PROGRAM COST: $3,070

All prices quoted are subject to change. The information contained in the program documents and forms is presented in good faith and is believed to be correct as of the date presented. Northern Illinois University reserves the right to amend, modify, revise, or delete any information appearing in these documents, including but not limited to the cost of the program. Non-NIU students should consult with their home institutions regarding additional costs that may apply to study abroad. Non-NIU students are responsible for any study abroad charges imposed by their home institution.

ADDITIONAL COSTS TO PARTICIPANTS:

Additional incidental expenses are difficult to estimate, since shopping habits and disposable incomes vary widely, as do travel plans on weekends and other free days. Those who choose to stay in Rome over the weekends will not incur the added costs of lodgings and travel. An estimate of $600 is suggested for spending on small gift items, books, postcards and personal items such as shoes or handbags. This estimate does not include money spent on luxury designer clothing, leather goods and jewelry, any of which could raise the amount spent to thousands of dollars.

WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PROGRAM: Applicants withdrawing from the program after March 14, 2008 will not be refunded the $200 program deposit.

Applicants withdrawing from the program after this date will also be held accountable for any funds obligated on their behalf. This provision is in effect even if the applicant has not submitted the $200 deposit or additional payments, and if the applicant is applying for financial aid.

If the applicant must withdraw after March 14, 2008 for medical reasons, the $200 deposit will be refunded only if the request is submitted to the Study Abroad Office in writing and accompanied by a signed statement from a physician on the physician’s letterhead. After this deadline, all funds obligated on your behalf can only be refunded if those monies are refunded to NIU by overseas agents and vendors.

CANCELLATION OF THE PROGRAM: The Study Abroad Office reserves the right to cancel this program if the minimum required enrollment is not attained. If, prior to the commencement of the program, a U.S. State Department Travel Warning is issued for Italy, all applicants will be notified promptly of the warning and the possibility of cancellation of the program. In the event that the program is canceled by the NIU Division of International Programs, students shall receive a full refund of all monies. If, during the course of the program, a U.S. State Department Travel Warning is issued for Italy, students will be promptly notified of the warning and the advisability of canceling the program.

The information contained in the program documents and forms is presented in good faith and is believed to be correct as of the date presented. Northern Illinois University reserves the right to amend, modify, revise, or delete any information appearing in these documents, including but not limited to the cost of the program.

485-685 Rome, the Living City: Constancy & Change

 May-June, 2008

Instructor: Dr. Mary Quinlan                                                                      Office: Art 201-C
Phone: 1-773-727-7592                                                                         email: mcgrathvi@aol.com 

There are innumerable ways that we can study the visual culture of a great metropolis. Ancient people believed Rome to be a living entity. This summer we will look at Rome within the old debate of art v. nature. Rome, though clearly a work of art, does have some of the characteristics of a living organism.

Constancy and change have been considered hallmarks of the living universe since ancient times. Ancient philosophers contrasted the great order and stability of the heavens with the transitory natural world of earth—the world where the only constant was change. But stability and change, as ancient people knew, were always interrelated in the fate of earthly entities.

We will consider what constancy and change meant to each layer of the inhabitants of this city, how these two features interacted, and what were the causes for a shift from the predominance of one to the predominance of the other. We will map the visual culture of the city as the city expands and contracts over time. But the city also has a vertical mapping that constantly frustrates the tidy narrative of chronological change. In Rome a single site holds thousands of years of human desires and discourse. Our mostly linear course chronology will therefore halt to examine the vertical layers of this palimpsest city. We will look at these sites to consider the ways they witness the human urge to cling to the past, to adapt it, or adapt to it, to destroy it, to commemorate it. Then we will move on again, as we look at external and internal influences that forced the next more radical changes to occur.

I envision this as a course that will form the beginning of your lifelong relationship with this great city. The course will provide you with a broad base of historical knowledge. But to me, the deep level of engagement always means personal research. In Rome, asking research questions about a work that you find compelling, finding provisional answers, and interpreting the information in a personal and insightful way should begin to build you your home in the city.

GENERAL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

RESEARCH GOALS:

I would like you to think ambitiously about your research project. Graduate students should think of this as though it were to become the basis for a Master’s thesis project. Undergraduates should think of their research as the basis for a USOAR project. Whether or not you ever use the project as such is irrelevant. At the very least, your research will make you a Roman rather than a tourist.

REQUIRED IMAGE STUDY AND RELATED READINGS:

OPTIONAL BACKGROUND GUIDES FOR THE CITY:

Basic history of the city-
Hibbert, Christopher, Rome: The Biography of a City (1987)

The following guides were written by scholars who here tell the stories they love about Rome and its artworks:
Testa, Judith, Rome is Love Spelled Backward (1998)

Masson, Georgina, The Companion Guide to Rome (1965, etc)

A comprehensive guidebook
Guida Roma e Dintorni, published by Touring Club Italiano (recent ed.) T
his guide runs to approx 900 pp. on the city and select surrounding areas.

A popular general guide:
Garwood, Duncan, Lonely Planet Rome (2007)

ASSESSMENTS:

10% of grade undergrad/ 5% grad - Pre-departure work.
60% of grade - Journal—daily entries of lecture notes, on site observations & relevant experiences. Apart from daily work, the Friday assignments are designed to provide the basis for your research paper. Due each week by 5:00 p.m. Friday & returned Monday morning.
30% of grade undergrad/ 35% grad – Research paper. Topic to be selected in consultation with instructor. Some research must be done in the libraries and archives of Rome. Final paper due by July 1, 2008.

TENTATIVE DAILY SCHEDULE

PREPARATORY WORK BEFORE PROGRAM BEGINS:
Roman sites listed for each day: We will not get to all of these sites. Weather and surprise closings will affect our ultimate choices.

Weather permitting, there will be several impromptu and optional after dinner strolls. These may be suggested by student interest, or we can go to some of my favorite areas. (A stroll for me can be up to 3 hours—I try to come in before the buses stop running, but am not always successful.) Only the first of these is scheduled (May 20).

Research Projects: Please keep me posted as your research is developing. Since I would like each of you to use a Roman library at least once, please consult with me on your language skills - together we can find the types of resources that you can profitably use in a Roman library, based on these language skills. For many of you this may mean studying important visual evidence, such as early print collections or topographical maps showing a site as it changed over time.

Tuesday, May 20
Arrive by dinner. Dinner together near our hotel. Weather permitting, we will take a walk through the heart of the ancient city after dinner. Focus on the fora and the triumphal ways.

Wednesday. May 21
Morning: Setting up the practical issues- food, money, public transit, library permits and other necessities. First research consult with me on libraries or other resources.

Afternoon: Contemporary Rome — layers of mapping & the orientation of the city. Reading and discussion: The ancient poet Martial & Mussolini
What is a city? What is external to it? How was this city spiritually conceived?
Site visits: The Janiculum and EUR.

Thursday. May 22
Lecture: The first urban plan. The mundus, the 7 hills, the walls, and the early inhabitants. The changing walls of Rome. The locals and the visitors from Asia and Africa. The Renaissance refoundings of Rome. Mussolini’s founding of EUR.

Reading and discussion: Livy, the cosmic founding of the city. Renaissance cosmic refoundings. Mussolini’s references to these.
How does Livy describe the founding of a city? What are the larger implications of this? How did early modern people (ca. 1500) continue this tradition and enlarge upon it in their own ways? In what ways was Mussolini’s repetition of this authentic or contrived? In what ways does belief make a difference in perception?

Site visit: The earliest temples and sites along the Tiber.

Friday, May 23
Weekly journal due at 5:00 p.m. today.
Library & Journal day.
Return with journals to your favorite site of this week. Describe the site or artwork both in words and in sketches. Describe the site or object spatially, contextually (may be historical, political, social, religious, and/or aesthetic), and with visual detail. Your sketches should indicate the human scale, the internal proportions of the object, and the proportions of the object to its site. If you have information, or can get information, on the original viewing conditions of this site, include that information in your journal entry. If you do not have such information you should note research strategies that you might use to acquire this information. Reflect and write on the evidence concerning this site’s constancy and change — how has it been valued by later inhabitants and visitors over time? In what ways did the modifier of the art stamp it, consciously or unconsciously, with the concerns and visual styles of the modifier’s culture?

Library research. The libraries of Rome are a rare research treat in themselves. Many are in Renaissance or Baroque palaces, and although they are more difficult to use than American libraries, they are well worth the obstacles. See note on Research Projects at the beginning of this Roman Calendar. Be prepared with at least one source that you wish to study—maps or prints or English reference texts — if you do not read Italian or Latin. This experience will also alert you to some of the realities of foreign research. The major libraries have at least part of their catalogs online.

Saturday, Sunday, May 24-25
No class. If you plan to travel to Venice, Florence or Naples on one of your free weekends, please see me if you would like an optional Handout with suggestions for places to study, and questions on those sites that are related to our course.

Monday, May 26
The Ancient City.
Lecture & Discussion: Circulation & Centers: roads, waterways, aquaducts, fountains, fora, circuses and baths.
Reading: Connors on urban planning and circulation

Tuesday, May 27
Site visit in the center: The Forum, Colosseum, Arches, Columns, the Pantheon.
Optional visits: Villa Giulia, Museo Romano, Capitoline Museum (Campidoglio)

Wednesday, May 28
Library research day. See note of Friday, May 23. Be prepared with at least one source that you wish to study — maps or prints or English reference texts — if you do not read Italian or Latin.

Thursday, May 29
Ancient, Early Christian, Medieval Rome.
Lecture & site visits - S. Clemente , Sta Sabina & the Aventine, Sta Costanza, S. Stefano Rotondo, S. Prassede, the medieval towers.

Friday, May 30
Weekly journal due at 5:00 p.m. today.
Lecture and site visits: S. Maria Sopra Minerva, St. Pietro in Montorio, St. Peter’s

Optional visit- St Pietro in Vincoli, & Campidoglio

Return with journals to your favorite site of this week. Follow the directions of Friday, May 23.

Saturday, Sunday, May 31-June 1
No class. If you plan to travel to Venice, Florence or Naples on one of your free weekends, please see me for a handout with suggestions for places to study, and questions on those sites that are related to our course.

The Vatican Museums, normally closed on Sundays, will be open on June 1 (last Sunday of the month).

Monday, June 2
CIVIL HOLIDAY IN ROME - The Vatican Museum are open: Site visit: Vatican Museums- Pinacoteca (especially Raphael’s Transfiguration) Borgia apartments, Raphael Rooms, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Reading: Raphael’s Workshop and Napoleon’s Troops

Tuesday, June 3
Site visits: Villa Farnesina, Oratorio del Gonfalone
Readings: Villa Farnesina (1 of 3)
Optional: Caprarola, Tivoli

Wednesday, June 4
Site visits: Baroque Urban planning- Piazza Navona, Chiesa Nuova, S. Andrea, S. Ignazio, S. Carlo alle 4 Fontane;

Thursday, June 5
Site visits: S. Maria Del Popolo area & Caravaggio; S Luigi dei Francesi & Caravaggio, St. Ivo and Borromini

Friday, June 6
Weekly journal due at 5:00 p.m. today.
Library research day.

Saturday, Sunday, June 7-8
No class. If you plan to travel to Venice, Florence or Naples on one of your free weekends, please see me for a handout with suggestions for places to study, and questions on those sites that are related to our course.

Monday, June 9
Site visit: Villa Borghese Optional: Museo d’Arte Moderna

Tuesday, June 10
Site Visit: Tour of EUR. Recent Rome.
Post Test. Course discussion & conclusions. Dinner together.
End of program

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALTER OR
CANCEL THIS PROGRAM AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY!  

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