MIDTERM

ROME

• Palatine Hill

  • most ancient part of Rome

  • she-wolf statue

• Pantheon

  • perfectly circular [the dome]

  • oculus in the center

    • acts as a compression ring

      • essentially acts as keystone for infinite arches

        • 360 degree buttress

    • concrete waffle slabs get thinner towards oculus

    • Pentecost celebration

      • firemen throw down rose petals

  • went from temple to all gods to a Christian church during 7th century

  • tomb of Raphael

  • before = swamp

• Aqueducts

  • formed to fix issue of need of water [wow]

    • 50-60 miles

    • 312BC - 226AD

• Castel Sant’Angelo

  • attached to angel bridge by Bernini

    • contrapposto

      • leg/shoulder shift

  • leads to Vatican

    • fortress for popes to hide in

• spaces for entertainment

  • amphitheater

    • colosseum

      • emperor/priests - senators- general citizens - foreigners/slaves/women

    • circus maximus

      • horsey races

• temple of peace

  • giant marble map

    • forma Urbis Romae

• Carrara Quarries

  • material

• Fabricius Bridge

  • oldest bridge in Rome

  • leads to only island

    • Isola Tiberina

• [Diocletian] Baths

  • gay

  • not just for bathing - can meet people on a professional level

  • redesigned by Michelangelo

• Ara Pacis

  • would sacrifice animals here

  • “alter of the peace”

  • was once painted

  • now enclosed in a modern building that takes motifs from it

    • thick “Roman” walls

    • controversial

MIDDLE AGES

• Constantine [emperor 306 - 337 AD]

  • brought Christianity to Rome

    • cringe

  • Arch of Constantine

    • made in his honor

• St. John Lateran

  • eventually turned into that one baroque church

• San Pietro in Vatican

  • Bramante was first up but was passed up [for Maderno] but he did do the iconic [donna] courtyard

    • Maderno kinda followed Bramante’s central plan

RENAISSANCE

BRAMANTE

• Tempietto

• original redesign plan for St. Peter [not used]

MICHELANGELO

• Pieta [Madonna holding Christ]

  • in St'. Peter

  • has his signature

• Piazza Del Campidoglio

  • he really wanted to make that horse statue

  • worked on Sistine chapel ceiling [restored it]

    • before: blue with gold stars

    • after: gay portraits [1508-1512]

      • 45’×128’

• groin snake

• Creation of Adam

RAPHAEL

• School of Athens [1508 - 1511]

  • plato: looks to the heavens [ideal realm]

  • aristotle: looks to the earth [real shit]

  • self portrait sneeked in

BAROQUE

BERNINI

• sponsored by Cardinal Scipione Borghese

  • Pluto and Proserpina

    • she’s scared and he has a glint of mischief in his eyes

  • Apollo and Daphne

  • David

• St. Peter’s Basilica

  • baldacchino and chair

  • colonnade

• Barcaccia

  • boat fountain in front of stairs

• fountain of four rivers

  • each statue represents a major river in the world

• Saint Andrew

  • church we went to and did an axon of

    • oval

BORROMINI

• emo [king]

• Saint Charles

  • oval church we went to [the smaller one]

• Palazzo Spada

  • visual illusion of 37m long gallery with life-sized figure

    • only actually 8m and figure is 60cm

• S. Ivo Alla Sapienza

BOLOGNA [bow-log-nah]

• the learned

  • oldest university [tech. competes with Oxford]

  • grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy

  • Bettisia Gozzadini: 1st female teacher at a university

    • 1209-1261

• the red

  • red roofs

  • Torre degli Asinelli & Torre Garisenda

    • towers but cant visit them because they’re falling

• the fat

  • food

• Cappella Bolognini

  • has portrait of Satan eating and shitting

  • unfinished façade