Students also receive some instruction in basic Italian. Field trips are planned to a number of notable historic and cultural centers. Application review begins on March 1 and continues until the program is full. Works of Renaissance architecture, painting, sculpture, and other applied arts from the Renaissance will be explored in most of their original contexts. Instruction will be on site.
Students visit mills, design studios, and markets to learn design research methods.
On-site study in Milan, Como, Verona, Venice, Florence, Siena, Assissi, Pisa, and Rome will highlight the political and socioeconomic conditions that influenced the designs of each period. Explore the achievements of writers, painters, sculptors, and architects of the Italian Renaissance. Highlights include visits to see Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's Duomo, and Giotto's Bell Tower in Florence and the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Limited additional courses in English including art history, culture, music, and the Venice film festival. Seminars on art and culture.