WEEK 10

University of Washington
History Program in Rome
Winter 2009

Week Ten: March 9 - 13

Mon. 9:
9:00 AH Two Bernini Chapels
Santa Maria della Vittoria and San Francesco a Ripa

AH Reading: Careri, selection from Bernini: Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion; Lavin, “The Altarpiece: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.”


Tues. 10:
10:30-12:30 Final Italian Language class

2-4:00 History

Wed. 11:
9:00 AH Palazzo Barberini; Trevi Fountain (bring coins to toss)

**Discussion topics: Palazzo barberini: papal nepotism, family propaganda (KELLY); fountains and aqueducts, history of water as a political/propagandistic tool (NICOLETTE).

AH Reading: Haskell,“The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage”; Scott, selections(“Dichiarazione” of Rosichino; ch. 11: Program and Narrative Action)

2-4:00 History

Thurs. 12: Last Day of Instruction (sad.)
TBA

7:30 p.m. Group Dinner – Last supper

Fri. 13:
By noon: All students must turn in keys to UWRC to claim key deposit, and check out of apartments by noon! Ciao Roma!