This year’s trip to Italy, as part of the core course The Florentine Renaissance and its Values, offered an additional excursion to ECLA Academy Year and BA First Year students: a day in Milan.In the course’s history, where students spend several days in Florence at the beginning of the spring term, brief visits to other
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Frank Fehrenbach on Leonardo’s Art
If a painting is presented to two people, each of them would probably see something different in it. They might even disagree about what they see to the point of drawing daggers. Art involves the viewer in a very unique way and the experience of looking at something and feeling something is individual. As we
Frank Fehrenbach: Vision and Vivacità
Midway through this semester, ECLA’s PY Core Course on Objectivity invited Professor Fehrenbach to deliver a lecture on his most recent subject of research, the significance of the point in Leonardo’s drawings and its connection to the aesthetical category of vivacità. This was a subject most appropriate for the students of the PY program, who
ECLA in Milan
ECLA’s day-trip to Milan, part of the weeklong study trip to Italy, was an exciting adventure in the heart of the second largest city and largest metropolitan area in Italy, also known as the world capital of design and fashion. With the virtuoso guidance of ECLA Laura Scuriatti – a native Milanese – the city’s
Florence Trip
Early morning on Sunday 9th March our bus left for Florence and after only a couple of hours we were already analysing the frescoes of Perra della Francesca in the medieval city centres of Pienza and Arrezzo. The Florence trip was to allow students to place the studied material in its context so the days
Stefano Evangelista on Walter Pater
On 13 February Dr. Stefano Evangelista of Trinity College, Oxford, presented an inspiring guest lecture on Walter Pater’s vision of the Renaissance as a state of mind. Walter Pater (1839 – 1894) was an English art and literary critic at Oxford. Although he was a shy and peaceful man, his book The Renaissance, Studies in
Denise Budd on ‘Painting and the Period Eye’
On 9 January, ECLA welcomed Professor Denise Budd (Rutgers University) for her lecture ‘Painting and the Period Eye’ on Florentine painting in the Renaissance. Focusing on the transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance period, Professor Budd analyzed the sources and evolution of painters such as Giotto and Masaccio, presenting their work in comparison to