In this pioneering course, we will explore previously unexplored territory. How did late-renaissance scientists and artists navigate between biblical and ancient texts, and their own observations? How did they negotiate between received scholarly and pictorial traditions and their own – often conflicting – observations?

This one-week course offers an unconventional approach to the study of Florentine art history. We will turn a blind eye to the usual art historical suspects, and instead focus on the incomplete, neglected, and non-canonical artefacts from Medieval times and the Renaissance to Modernist art and architecture in Florence.

This Minor program offers the opportunity of working with a large variety of methodologies in order to understand present-day Italy through its historical developments in a profoundly cross-disciplinary context.

An in-depth study of the drawings, paintings, and writings of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise, France 1519). This course seeks to define the relationship between Leonardo’s development as a painter and his scientific research.

Deze cursus, die open staat voor studenten in BA jaar 2 en 3 en (Res)MA studenten van een van de deelnemende Nederlandse universiteiten, onderzoekt Sandro Botticelli’s interacties met collega’s, opdrachtgevers en humanisten. De cursus vindt plaats van 1 tot 9 maart 2025.