FAM3095 Music, art and thought in Medici Florence
Music, Art and Thought in Medici Florence is a seminar with a study tour to Florence and Rome, Italy!
From c1420 to the middle of the sixteenth century, Florence witnessed a remarkable synergy of music, art, and thought financed by the Medici dynasty. Inhabited by such renowned artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, musicians Guillaume DuFay and Heinrich Isaac, and writers Angelo Poliziano and Niccolò Machiavelli, Florence was a vortex of Renaissance humanism. The city witnessed religious fanaticism and was ravaged by French invasions for two decades beginning in 1492. In this interdisciplinary course we will study the political, economic, artistic, and cultural forces that gave rise to Florence as a unique center of Renaissance humanism.
Course Instructor: Dr. Stephanie Schlagel, Associate Professor, is a musicologist specializing in the music of Josquin des Prez, the 15th- and 16th-century motet, reception history and historiography. [email protected]
From c1420 to the middle of the sixteenth century, Florence witnessed a remarkable synergy of music, art, and thought financed by the Medici dynasty. Inhabited by such renowned artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, musicians Guillaume DuFay and Heinrich Isaac, and writers Angelo Poliziano and Niccolò Machiavelli, Florence was a vortex of Renaissance humanism. The city witnessed religious fanaticism and was ravaged by French invasions for two decades beginning in 1492. In this interdisciplinary course we will study the political, economic, artistic, and cultural forces that gave rise to Florence as a unique center of Renaissance humanism.
Course Instructor: Dr. Stephanie Schlagel, Associate Professor, is a musicologist specializing in the music of Josquin des Prez, the 15th- and 16th-century motet, reception history and historiography. [email protected]