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AE-AN173 - Art and the Medici

This course will explore the relationship between art and the powerful and influential Italian family, the Medici. The family’s influence while initially economic led to their infiltration of the highest spheres of society, ruling republics, the Catholic Church and Royal houses. The Medici family’s fortune will be followed through the centuries by examining their patronage of the visual arts. Each week will provide an in-depth look at some of the central figures, starting in Florence with Cosimo the Elder in the early fifteenth century, and concluding with Marie de’ Medici who married the King of France in the seventeenth-century. Included will be Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cosimo First Duke of Tuscany as well as the Medici Popes and significant female members such as Eleonora di Toledo. There can be no doubt that the Medici were expert in the necessary social manoeuvres in European society, that they did so primarily peacefully using diplomacy and propaganda is especially fascinating. Understanding the power of art was vital to their success and understanding the Medici is vital to the History of European Art. The employed the greatest artists of their day including Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bronzino and Rubens.

Dates Schedule Time Venue/Location Fee €
24 Jan 2023 to 14 Mar 2023 Sessions:
8 Tuesdays
14.00 - 16.00 pm
Jan 24, 31, Feb 07, 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 14
14:00 "Mounttown Community Centre Meadowlands Fitzgerald Park Mounttown Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin A96 Kr

185.00



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8 Tuesdays
14.00 - 16.00

Dates: Jan 24, 31, Feb 07, 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 14

At the end of this course, students should be able to outline the history of the Medici family from the fifteenth to seventeenth century. They should also be able to identify the main Medici figures and the artists they employed and works commissioned. Students will be able to confidently discuss the key artists and works and in particular demonstrate a greater understanding of the use of art as propaganda.

The Medici family

Renaissance art

Mannerism

Baroque

Italian history

European history

Jessica Fahy has been teaching for over seven years as tutor for the Adult Education Centre as well as at the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at UCD and for the National Gallery of Ireland. She has taught a wide range of courses, covering various areas of the History of European Art. She has a MLitt from UCD and completed her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.