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Located in a restored Tuscan hilltop estate 25 kilometers north of Florence, the Tuscan Classical Academy is based on long-standing traditions, ideals, and values. The Academy was founded by architectural restorer and educator Lynn Fleming Aeschliman, who started renovating the Capitignano property in the late 1960s, and is co-directed by Victor Deupi, Director of Education at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America in New York.
The Academy brings together talented and experienced architects, artists, teachers, and theorists who are devoted to the classical, medieval, and Renaissance traditions in the arts. The Academy Fellows promote the arts as essential to human flourishing and wellbeing as well as professional competence and growth.
The Capitignano estate has several major buildings that contain a library, studio, lecture hall, salon, living and dining accommodations, as well as a swimming pool, tennis court, and terraces. The Academy runs collaborative programs with the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, INTBAU, the Erasmus-Jefferson Summer Institute (University of Virginia), the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (New York), the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and The American School in Switzerland(Lugano). Independent students are welcome to apply to attend on a credit or non-credit basis.
The aim of the summer program is to introduce art and architecture students and professionals to the rich architectural heritage of Florence and Tuscany. More than any other city, Florence was the seat of Renaissance Humanism, and the center for the flourishing of the classical arts. Throughout the quattrocento and cinquecento, Florence witnessed a revival of architecture and the building arts that decisively changed the way Europe and the West thought about the built environment.
Professional intensives
Renaissance Urbanism: July 24, 2007 – August 5, 2007
The Tuscan Landscape: August 5, 2007–August 14, 2007
Courses
The program covers three areas:
1)The History and Theory of Florentine Humanism;
2) Tuscan Classical Architecture and its RegionalVariants; and
3)Drawing and Painting.
The History and Theory component consists of a series of lectures on medieval civilization and Renaissance Humanism and site visits to important cities and buildings throughout Tuscany. These center primarily on Florence and the Mugello valley, although day trips to Fiesole, Pienza, Montepulciano, Siena, and Monterigione complement the Florentine focus. Students are required to keep a sketchbook of their site visits.
The study of Tuscan Classical Architecture and its Regional Variants examines the rediscovery of classical architecture in quattrocento Florence, and its creative interpretations throughout Tuscany. For advanced students, the course offers design exercises that explore the Renaissance notion of "concetto" or conceptualization of form and its intrinsic iconographic content. Students work in pencil, watercolor, and wash.
The Drawing and Painting component introduces students to the basics of landscape drawing and painting based on observations from nature. Students work in watercolor, pencil, charcoal, and chalk to learn how to develop preliminary work in design and composition, then progress to develop paintings in oil, applying this mediumto create an illusion of reality through atmospheric perspective and the rendering of various components that go into a landscape. Subject matter ranges from wild mountainous vistas and cultivated fields to buildings and cityscapes.
Structure
The summer program is open to those whose focus is primarily architecture and to those whose focus is fine art. The two groups do, however, share a number of lectures and exercises and all the tours are done jointly. Additionally, two shorter Professional Intensives are offered during the course of the program focusing on urbanism and the civilized landscape.
The program is for
1) professionals and non-professionals seeking a rich summer opportunity to draw, paint, and be inspired by the beauty of Tuscany, as well as receiving continuing-education credits, if so desired;
2) professionals and non-professionals seeking a shorter intensive program on either Renaissance urbanism or theTuscan landscape;
3) talented rising highschool seniors seeking college-level summer courses in painting or architecture for college credit;
4) art and architecture students seeking summer-school college credits at both the 200-level introductory and 400-level advanced courses.
Faculty
- ArchitectVictor Deupi, BSArch, UVa; MArch, Yale U.; PhD, U. of Pennsylvania; Director of Education, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
- Architect Sheldon Kostelecky,MAUD, Harvard; MArchDU, U. of Notre Dame
- Art Historian Jill Johnson Deupi, PhD, U. of Virginia
- Painter Maureen Hyde, MFA, U. of California; Instructor, Florence Academy of Art
Itinerary
Week one: 24 – 29 July 2007
- Tuesday Arrivals & Orientation/Eve. Opening Dinner
- Wednesday AM Lecture: “Tuscan Classicism,”FieldDrawing—Capitignano/PM Landscape Painting&Design Studio
- Thursday DayTrip: Florence I—The City in Context (San Miniato, PonteVecchio,Uf-fizzi, Piazza della Signoria,Orsanmichele, Piazza della Repubblica, Mercato Nuovo, Palazzo Davanzati, Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Ruccellai, Centro Sacro)
- Friday AM Field Drawing—Borgo San Lorenzo/PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve. Lecture: Michael Aeschliman (Renaissance Humanism)
- Saturday DayTrip: Pienza, Montepulciano
- Sunday Free Day
Week two: 30 July – 5 August 2007
- Monday AM Field Drawing—Palazzo deiVicari (Scarperia)/P.M Landscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve. Lecture:Victor Deupi
- Tuesday AM Field Drawing—Vicchio/PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio
- Wednesday DayTrip: Siena, Monterigione
- Thursday AM Field Drawing—Capitignano/PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio
- Friday AM Field Drawing—Monte Senario/PMLandscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve Lecture: Jill Deupi
- Saturday DayTrip: Florence II—Renaissance Painting & Sculpture (San Marco, Bargello, Santa Maria Novella, Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel)
- Sunday Free Day (departures & arrivals of Professional Intensive participants)
Week three: 6 – 12 August 2007
- Monday AM Field Drawing—Villa La Quiete (San Cresci)/PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve. Lecture: Sheldon Kostelecky
- Tuesday AM Field Drawing—Villa Medici (Fiesole)/PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio
- Wednesday Day Trip: Florence III—Patrons & Painters (San Lorenzo, Palazzo Medici, Palazzo Pitti, Boboli Gardens)
- Thursday AM Field Drawing—Villa Gamberaia (Settignano)/PMLandscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve Lecture:Maureen Hyde
- Friday AM Field Drawing—Villa Le Balze (Fiesole) /PM Landscape Painting & Design Studio/Eve. Feast of San Lorenzo
- Saturday DayTrip: Certosa del Galuzzo (Firenze Sud), Chianti
- Sunday Free Day
Week four: 13 – 14 August 2007
- Monday AM Field Drawing, Landscape Painting & Design Studio/PM Final Review and Presentations/ Eve. Final Dinner
- Tuesday Departures
General information
Architecture summer program Tuscan Classical Academy july 24 – august 14, 2007 in collaboration with the institute of classical architecture & classical America and the university of Notre Dame school of architecture.
Capitignano, San Cresci, Borgo San Lorenzo, Province of Florence, Italy
General Information
3 credits, Deupi, et al. / 9:00–1:00 and 2:00–6:00
MTWTF The Academy is open to art and architecture students (rising high-school seniors and college level), professionals, and talented amateurs from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
Admission to the Academy is by permission of the Directors and on a space-available basis. Applicants are required to submit examples of their work in the form of digital images, photocopies, or photographs. Students are housed for the duration of their stay in restored villas and farm buildings on the estate of Capitignano in the Mugello valley, 45 minutes north of Florence.
All courses and studio work are carried out in the restored hay loft (Fienile) and stable (Stalla) of the complex, as well as extended to different sites in Tuscany. The complete cost of the three-week Program, including housing, meals, tours, Notre Dame tuition for credit, and fees is $4,200. (Financial aid is available for architectural students and interns.)
The shorter Professional Intensive offerings are $2,400 for the 1st and $1,900 for the 2nd, all-inclusive. Drawing and painting supplies are not included. A $500 deposit is required along with the application to hold a place. Full payment of the remaining cost is required by June 1. All payments minus a cancellation fee of $150 are refundable until this date.
Further information
Victor Deupi
Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
20 West 44th St.,NY,NY 10036
Email: vdeupi@classicist.org
Fax: (212) 730-9649
Tel: (212) 730-9646
Lynn F. Aeschliman
TASIS
CH6926 Montagnola
Switzerland
Email: lfa@tasis-schools.org
Fax: (+41 91) 994-6475
Tel: (+41 91) 986-5425
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INTBAU UK is a registered Charity no. 1103068
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