Early Renaissance Architecture in Italy: from Alberti to Bramante

1. First week: Introduction
    1.1 About the course
    1.2 Florence in the early XV century
    1.3 Brunelleschi and the architectural order
    1.4 The sources of the Antiquity
2. Second week: Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
    2.1 Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano
    2.2 Florence, the Rucellai Palace
    2.3 Florence, the façade of S. Maria Novella
    2.4 Mantua, the churches of S. Sebastiano and S. Andrea
3. Third week: Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439-1501)
    3.1 Siena in the times of pope Pius II
    3.2 The Palazzo Ducale in Urbino
    3.3 Fortresses and treatises
    3.4 Churches and monasteries
4. Fourth week: Giuliano da Sangallo (1443-1516)
    4.1 The Villa of Poggio a Caiano
    4.2 Churches
    4.3 Palaces
    4.4 Fortresses
5. Fifth week: Other points of view
    5.1 Milan
    5.2 Venice
    5.3 Naples
    5.4 Rome
6. Sixth week: Bramante (1444-1514) in Milan
    6.1 Bramante from Urbino
    6.2 S. Maria presso S. Satiro
    6.3 The Pavia Cathedral and the Choir of S. Maria delle Grazie
    6.4 The Canonica and the Cloisters of S. Ambrogio
7. Seventh week: Bramante in Rome (I)
    7.1 The Cloister of S. Maria della Pace
    7.2 The Belvedere Court of the Vatican
    7.3 New St. Peter’s
    7.4 The Tempietto of S. Pietro in Montorio
8. Eight week: Bramante in Rome (II)
    8.1 Palaces
    8.2 Churches
    8.3 The Choir of S. Maria del Popolo and the Nympheum in Genazzano
    8.4 Conclusions