Art and Architecture in the Middle Ages

The course focuses on the analysis of architecture and its relationship with figurative art in the Mediterranean and transalpine area from Late Antiquity to the fourteenth century (4th-14th century). ): from the early Christian basilicas of Rome to the great Romanesque buildings of Speyer, Cluny, Pisa, Modena, passing through St. Sophia of Constantinople, St. Vitale of Ravenna, the mosque of Cordoba, the Palace of Aachen with its chapel; and again, from the churches of Norman Sicily to the Gothic Cathedrals in France and their reception in the Holy Roman Empire – in Germany and in Italy.