Text–Memory–Monument

Practical information
Period: Pre-site preparation 1 May–14 July, on-site 14–26
July, assignment deadline: 15 August 2014
Inscription, Aarhus University; economic housing at the
Danish, Finnish and Swedish Institutes
Level: BA, MA and Ph.D.
Merit: 10 ECTS
Teaching language: English
Application deadline: 15 March 2014
Contact:
Trine Arlund Hass (Aarhus University) [email protected]
All information will be available on
www.acdan.it/summerschool/
See pictures from the summer school 2013 at
www.acdan.it/summerschool/
The summer school has been developed together with the
Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies and is organised as
a collaboration between the four Nordic institutes and the
American Academy in Rome, Aarhus University and the
University of Jyväskylä. The teachers are internationally
established specialists in their fields. The summer school is
open to qualified students from all countries.
Text–Memory–Monument
The use of the past in
Italian Renaissance culture
Summer School
held at the
Danish and Finnish Institutes in Rome
14-26 July 2014
Text–Memory–Monument
The use of the past in
Italian Renaissance culture
The Italian Renaissance (c. 1350–1550) is a key period in
European cultural history. Italian Renaissance writers and
artists were instrumental in modeling our view of the
individual, of nature and the surrounding world, and by
reviving a number of the literary and artistic idioms of
classical Antiquity they effectively decided the development
of European art and literature for centuries after.
This international 2-week summer school will show how
Italian Renaissance Humanism produced a broad spectrum of
new political, philosophical and scientific ideas, and artistic
developments which became key elements in the formation
of modern Europe. It will take advantage of its setting in
Rome to explore the relevant sights of Ancient and
Renaissance Rome. Teaching will be conducted by a team of
experts in Renaissance Humanism, literature, philosophy,
language and art.
The interdisciplinary scope of the course ensures that a large
range of renaissance writers, artists and monuments will be
discussed during lessons and visits.
Examples of relevant contemporary writers:
Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonardo Bruni,
Leon Battista Alberti, Lorenzo Valla, Poggio Bracciolini,
Marsilio Ficino, Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione,
Ludovico Ariosto, Giorgio Vasari
Examples of relevant monuments and artists:
The Capitol, St Peter’s, the Vatican, Villa Giulia,
Villa
Farnesina, Villa d’Este, Castel St Angelo, San Pietro in
Vincoli, Accademia di San Luca – Bramante, Perugino,
Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Pinturicchio, Piero di
Cosimo,
Andrea
Bregno,
Raphael,
Giulio
Romano,
Michelangelo
The on-site course consists of the following modules:
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Methodology: Cultural memory, palaeography and
epigraphy
Places of Power I: the Capitol and the heritage of
republican Rome
Places of Power II: the Vatican and the heritage of
imperial Rome
Places of study and leisure: palaces and villas, urban
and rural lifestyle
Images of man: portraits, neoplatonism
The Roman Academy: books and places

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