Tour 27 May to 9 June 2012
Escorted by Dr Angela Mackie
Tour Operator: Claudio Polles
Tour begins and ends at the airport in Florence where we will
be met by the tour operator
A tour for those who appreciate the finer aspects of life: art and
architecture, the great cuisine of Tuscany, fine wines, a laugh or
two. There will be plenty of time to wander on your own to enjoy
what Florence and other centres have to offer. Accommodation is in
elegant 4-star country villas.
Claudio Polles, an artist from the Veneto who spends half the
year in Italy, will introduce us to the food and wine of this
famous region while the Art History lecturer, Dr Angela Mackie,
will explain the salient points of Renaissance art in Florence.
Duccio, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca,
Paolo Uccello, Ghiberti, Beato Angelico, Bernardo Rossellino,
Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, not to mention Leonardo, Michelangelo and
Raphael! These are the artists whose works we will study. We will
also have day trips to Siena, Montepulciano, Pienza, San Sepolcro
and Arezzo to view relevant architecture, sculpture and
paintings.
As well as visiting the above centres we will also spend a day
driving through the rolling hills from our villa to the Chianti
valley for a wine tasting. We of course will be sampling the fine
regional cuisine and wine from the local vineyards each time we eat
in our hotel or local restaurant!
Cost of tour: $AUS7950
Single room supplement $AUS1250
Download the booking and deposit form
TOUR COSTS INCLUDE -
- Transfers
- Accommodation with private facilities
- All excursions
- All breakfasts, all dinners (wines with evening meals)
- Entrance fees as per itinerary
NOT INCLUDED -
- Airfares and all associated airport and airline taxes
- Travel insurance
- Any personal costs
DAY 1 - 27 May 2012
Arrival - PICK-UP - FLORENCE AIRPORT 12 pm transfer to "Hotel
Sovestro"; Visit S. Gimignano
DAY 2 FLORENCE
Gothic: Santa Croce, Florence
Santa Croce, Florence, begun 1294, nave & choir attrib. to
Arnolfo di Cambio, ext. 19th cent.
Giotto: St Francis undergoing the Test by Fire Before the Sultan,
1320s
Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence
Donatello: Annunciation, 1430s, limestone and terra cotta with
gilding
Bernardo Rossellino, Funeral Monument to Leonardo Bruni,
1445-50
Gothic: Florence Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, begun 1296 by
Arnolfo di Cambio
DAY 3 FLORENCE
First visit to the Uffizi
Gothic art: Cimabue, Enthroned Madonna or Madonna of Sta Trinità,
panel, 1280
Giotto: Madonna Enthroned (Madonna d'Ognissanti)
Gentile da Fabriano: Adoration of the Magi, (Strozzi Altarpiece),
1423,
Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child, c 1455
Paolo Uccello: Battle of San Romano, panel
Domenico Veneziano: The St Lucy Altarpiece
Piero della Francesca: Battista Sforza, 1472-3, panel,
Piero della Francesca: Federico da Montefeltro, 1472-3,
Alesso Baldovinetti: Annunciation, before 1460
Antonio del Pollaiuolo: Hercules and the Hydra, c 1460
Pollaiuolo: Hercules and Anteus, c 1460, panel,
Domenico Veneziano: St Lucy Altarpiece, 1445-47
Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci: Baptism of Christ,
c1470
DAY 4 SIENA
Cathedral Museum and Town Hall
Duccio, Maestà Altar, Madonna Enthroned 1308-1311, Cathedral
Museum, Siena
Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Laurati) Effects of Good
Government in the Countryside,
Donatello: Feast of Herod, panel on the Baptismal font,
Baptistery, Siena
DAY 5 FLORENCE
Romanesque art: Baptistery, Florence, 1060-1156
Ghiberti: North Doors, Baptistery, Florence,
Ghiberti: The Gates of Paradise, (East Doors), Baptistery,
Florence, 1425-1452, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
Orsanmichele, Florence, rebuilt 1337, arches closed late
1300s
Nanni di Banco: Four Crowned Martyrs, 1410, marble, Orsanmichele,
Florence
Verrocchio: Doubting of Thomas, 1465-83, bronze,
Orsanmichele,
Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Masaccio, Masolino and Filippo Lippi,
Visit to Boboli Gardens
Santo Spirito, Brunelleschi: nave & choir, model 1434-36
construction 1446 to late 1400s
Ospedale degli Innocenti by Brunelleschi
Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, Michelozzo di
Bartolommeo:
Palazzo Medici, Florence, now known as the Palazzo
Medici-Riccardi, attributed to Michelozzo or Brunelleschi.
Benozzo Gozzoli: Procession of the Magi, c 1459, fresco, Palazzo
Medici-Riccardi
DAY 6 FLORENCE
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Leon Battista Alberti: Santa Maria Novella, façade, Florence, c
1456-70
Masaccio, La Trinità, The Holy Trinity, fresco, 1427
Paolo Uccello, The Flood, Chiostro Verde, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, c 1450
Museum and Monastery of San Marco, Florence
Fra (Beato) Angelico (1400 - 1455) Guido di Pietro numerous
frescoes in monastery
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Library, Monastery of San Marco, after
1436, Florence
Day 7 CHIANTI WINE VALLEY and TASTING
Greve-Castellina di Chianti
DAY 8 FLORENCE
San Lorenzo, Florence, by Brunelleschi
Fra Filippo Lippi: Annunciation, c 1440, panel,
Donatello: Lamentation (Deposition), 1460s, completed by students
of Donatello, St Lorenzo
Old and New Sacristies by Brunelleschi and Michelangelo
respectively, Medici Chapel
Brunelleschi: Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence 1421-28
Donatello: St Stephen and St Lawrence, niche above doorway in Old
Sacristy, stucco, Donatello: The Resurrection of Drusiana, tondo in
pendentive of Old Sacristy, stucco,
Palazzo Rucellai Leon Battista Alberti: Palazzo Rucellai,
Florence
San Miniato al Monte, Florence 5.00 or 6.00 pm Vespers sung
Antonio Rossellino: Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal in
Florence, 1460-66.
DAY 9 MONTEPULCIANO and PIENZA
Montepulciano
Michelozzo: The Palazzo Comunale,
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, or the, constructed between
1594 and 1680
Taddeo di Bartolo: Assumption of the Virgin in the Duomo of
Montepulciano
Andrea della Robbia: terracotta altar in the church of Santa Maria
delle Grazie (late 16th century)
Antonio di Sangallo the Elder: Sanctuary of the Madonna di San
Biagio on the road to Chianciano outside the city. It is a typical
16th century Tuscan edifice, between 1518 and 1545; circular
(central) plan with a large dome over a terrace
Pienza
Pienza is a wonderful example of Renaissance town design. The
centre of Pienza was completely redesigned by Pope Pius II during
the Renaissance. The architect Bernardo Rossellino was commissioned
to build a cathedral, papal palace and town hall.
DAY 10 FLORENCE
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Pisano, Andrea
Donatello: Lo Zuccone ("Big Squash" or "Baldy"), identified as
Habbakkuk
Donatello: Jeremiah, formerly on the Campanile
Luca della Robbia, Cantoria, marble,
Donatello: Cantoria, 1433-39, marble and mosaic, 18'8", removed
from the Duomo
Paolo Uccello: Sir John Hawkwood, 1436, fresco transferred to
canvas,
Donatello: The Penitent Magdalen, 1430s-1450s
Bargello, Florence
Brunelleschi, Filippo: Sacrifice of Isaac, 1402-3, bronze with
gilding,
Ghiberti, Lorenzo: Sacrifice of Isaac, 1402-3, bronze with
gilding,
Donatello: David, 1408-9, reworked 1416
Ghiberti, St John the Baptist, and niche, 1405-17,
Ghiberti: St Matthew, and tabernacle, 1419-22, bronze figure
Luca della Robbia, Virgin with the apple, glazed terracotta,
Bargello, Florence
Luca della Robbia, Garland, Bargello
Donatello: St Mark, 1411-15, marble figure
Donatello: St George, marble, orig. location Orsanmichele
Donatello, David, National Museum, Florence, 1425-1430
Donatello: David, bronze, 1446-60, Bargello, Florence
Donatello: St George and the Dragon, relief now removed from the
St George tabernacle, Orsanmichele, Florence, c 1417, marble,
Bargello, Florence
Pollaiuolo, Hercules and Antaeus, c 1475, bronze, Bargello,
Florence
Verrocchio: Bust of a Young Woman, 1480s, marble, Bargello,
Florence
Verrocchio: David, prob. Early 1470s, bronze, Bargello,
Florence
DAY 11 SAN SEPOLCRO and AREZZO
Sansepolcro
Piero della Francesca: Madonna of Mercy, Misericordia Altarpiece,
Museo Civico
Piero della Francesca: Resurrection, c 1458, Museo Civico, orig
Town Hall
Arezzo
Piero della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross, San Francesco,
Arezzo, 1454-58
DAY 12 FLORENCE
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, second visit
Botticelli: Adoration of the Magi, prob. Early 1470s, panel
Botticelli: Camilla and the Centaur, after 1842Botticelli, La
Primavera, 1482? or 1477/78,
Botticelli, Birth of Venus, canvas
Botticelli: Portrait of a Man with a medal of Cosimo de' Medici, c
1465-69,
Botticelli: Enthroned Madonna with Saints, mid 1480s,
Botticelli: Annunciation, panel, 1489-90
Botticelli: Calumny of Apelles, 1497-8
Hugo van der Goes: Portinari Altarpiece, late 1470s
Leonardo da Vinci: Landscape, sepia, 1473
Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci: Baptism of Christ,
c1470,
Leonardo: Annunciation, panel, Leonardo, Adoration of the Magi,
unfinished,
Leonardo: Architectural Perspective and Background Figures for the
Adoration of the Magi
Perugino: Francesco delle Opere, 1494, panel
Day 13 FLORENCE
Pitti Gallery,
Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin,
panel,
Raphael: Angelo Doni, c 1505,
Raphael: Maddalena Strozzi, c 1505
Sta Trinità, Florence
Ghirlandaio: Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, 1485,
65¾"sq, Sta Trinità, Florence
Accademia, Florence
Michelangelo, David, marble, 13'6" plus various other "unfinished
works" by Michelangelo
Fra Bartolommeo: Vision of St Bernard, 1504-7
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
Michelangelo: Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, c 1492,
marble
The above timetable is subject to change at the discretion of
the tour operator in conjunction with the art history
lecturer