HART0180: Advanced Lecture: Rome - Indicative weekly topics
- Rome and its traces
- The making of the rennaisance city: Contesting claims of papal power: Architecture and fresco schemes in Vatican City
- Destruction and reconstitution: Making and remaking of the city
- Rome and cult of relics: The crisis of image
- The city redefined: Public space and the fountain / Water and critique
- The emergence of the art market: Genre painting and the print market
- The controversies around the religious image: Violence, death and the erotic
- Urban spaces: Performing urban space
- The transformation of the body and urban space
- Reasserting the authority of art: Private fresco decoration and new claims of power