CORNELL IN ROME PROF. JEFFREY BLANCHARD COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART & PLANNING SPRING 2020 ARCH 3823-020 URBAN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND ART IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ROME REVISED FOR ON-LINE CONTINUATION PROJECT: EXPLORING ROME WITH A SKETCHBOOK IN HAND Like the youthful Henry James in 1869, you may think that you’ve seen the main sites of Rome by the end of your first day. As the weeks go by, you will likely become more humble and acknowledge that you are just scratching the surface in this immensely rich and complicated city. Using a small-format sketchbook of your choice, you are asked to explore the city throughout your weeks here, recording in drawings and written notes your experiences and impressions. Although we will visit in class many of the places listed here, there are numerous sites we will not see together. This exercise should encourage you to visit extraordinary places that you might not otherwise see. The suggested sites are grouped in four categories: Itineraries & Pathways; Urban Ensembles & Piazze; Buildings & Building Complexes; Museums & Galleries. You should feel free to expand these guidelines creatively, including other places of interest you may discover. By the end of the semester, you should have documented a minimum of 8 places, including at least one example from each category. But rather than thinking of this as a requirement to be fulfilled, I hope that you will become happily addicted to the task of going out to see, document and interpret the city and its countless treasures on a regular basis. Learning about the historical aspects of your chosen sites is one of your (I hope pleasant) tasks. This can be done in many ways, using resources in our library, doing research on line, taking advantage of abundant historical materials that the sites often make available to help “explain” themselves to visitors. If you would like to include in your sketchbooks sites we visit on the field trips, you are welcome to do so. You are now scattered far and wide. Continue with this sketchbook, using materials and memories you gathered during your weeks in Roma and Italy. If you like, you can invent new topics related to the places where you are currently residing, thereby testing your methods of representation and analysis in other contexts.
Itineraries & Pathways Aurelian Walls Seven Hills of Rome (select one to explore) Tevere (the river’s edges, embankments, bridges, etc.) Via Appia Antica Via Papalis (Papal Way) Via Giulia/Ponte Sisto/Via della Lungara Piazza del Popolo Trident Strada Felice/street system of Sixtus V Seven Pilgrimage Churches Via Flaminia/Via del Corso (from Ponte Milvio to Piazza Venezia) Aqueducts and fountains Public gardens (Villa Borghese, Villa Doria-Pamphili) Historical Rioni (select a rione and use the Nolli plan as your guide) Post-1870 neighborhoods (select and explore a zone urbanized after the unification of Italy) Post-1870 arteries (Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, etc.) Fascist era arteries (Via dei Fori Imperiali, Via del Teatro di Marcello) Typological itineraries (e.g. city gates, centrally-planned buildings) Artists’ itineraries (e.g. Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini) Urban Ensembles & Piazze Roman Forum/Palatine/Colosseum Piazza del Campidoglio Piazza Farnese Piazza Navona Piazza del Quirinale Piazza San Pietro Piazza del Popolo Piazza di Santa Maria della Pace Piazza di Sant'Ignazio Piazza di Spagna/Spanish Steps Piazza Venezia E.U.R. Buildings & Building Complexes Mausoleum of Augustus/Ara Pacis Castel Sant’Angelo/Ponte Sant’Angelo Palazzo Venezia Palazzo della Cancelleria Palazzo Farnese Palazzo Baldassini Palazzo Leroy Palazzo Massimo
Palazzo Spada Palazzo Borghese Palazzo Barberini Palazzo del Quirinale Villa Chigi (Farnesina) Villa Giulia Villa Medici Villa Lante (Roma) Tempietto Santa Sabina Santa Maria Maggiore Santa Maria in Aracoeli Santa Maria sopra Minerva Santa Maria del Popolo Sant’Agostino San Luigi dei Francesi Il Gesù Sant'Andrea della Valle Chiesa Nuova/Oratorio San Carlino Sant'Ivo San Giovanni in Laterano Sant'Andrea al Quirinale Santa Maria in Campitelli San Francesco a Ripa Museums & Galleries Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Museo Nazional Romano Terme di Diocleziano Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Altemps Museo Nazionale Romano Crypta Balbi Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Museo e Galleria Borghese Galleria Nazionale d’Atre Antica Palazzo Barberini Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica Palazzo Corsini Galleria Spada Galleria Doria-Pamphili Galleria Colonna
