AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
This subject aims to the understanding of the principles of the architecture and the art of Renaissance, Mannerism and the Baroque as much within their social and political framework as in relation with the art and architecture of the other periods of Western history up to our times.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The "History of Architecture" examines the following subjects:
The beginning of the modernist era. Renaissance, Mannerism Baroque: Introduction, connection to the history of Western architecture from the Classical age up to contemporary architecture. Basic principles of the Renaissance architecture as formulated by Alberti in his "Ten Books of Architecture". Reference to the architectural work of Alberti as well as of Brunelleschi, Bramante. The "Four Books of Architecture" by Palladio, in relation to the humanist principles of the Renaissance. Reference to the work of Palladio: villas, palaces, public buildings, churches. Mannerism: emancipation of architecture from the divine, Michelangelo. Baroque: the play of affectation of classicism, Vignola, Bernini, Borromini. The founding of art/architecture as a mental activity during the Renaissance. The emancipation of art/architecture from the divine and the empirical world during the Mannerist period. The classicist and revolutionary architecture of the 2nd half of the 18th c. The art and architecture of the 19th c. Classicism, historicism and eclecticism next to the engineers architecture. The School of Chicago.
The "History of Art" examines the following subjects:
The development and evolution of the fine arts in the Renaissance era, in Italy and the rest of the European world. The formal analysis of a work of art and its relation to the built space. Reference to the work of Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo and others. Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo. The transition from the excess of any static principle in the artistic work of Renaissance to the presentation of intense and dynamic characteristics which fertilize Mannerism and complete Baroque. Rococo: its ornamental role in 18th c. painting and its juxtaposition to the theatrical Baroque in the field of fine arts.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
This subject supplies students with the ability to interpret the forms of art and architecture and to investigate their role within the social and cultural becoming of each era.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
GREEK
1. Γιώργος Λάββας, Επίτομη Ιστορία Αρχιτεκτονικής, University Studio Press, Θεσσαλονίκη.
2. Leonardo Benevolo, Η Ιστορικότητα του Αρχιτεκτονικού Έργου, Εκδ. Λιβάνης, Αθήνα.
3. ΜΙΧΕΛΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓ., "Αισθητικά Θεωρήματα", 3 τόμοι, Αθήναι 1971, "Η Αρχιτεκτονική ως Τέχνη", Αθήναι 1973, "Αισθητική θεώρηση της Βυζαντινής Τέχνης", Αθήναι 1972.

INTERNATIONAL
1. Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the age of Humanism, Academy Eds, London, 1977 (c/1949).
2. James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo, Pelican Books, 1961.
3. Heinrich Wolfflin, Renaissance & Baroque, Collins, London, 1984 (1964).
4. Vitruvius, The Ten Books of Architecture, Dover Publ., N.Y., 1960.
5. Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1956, The Ten Books of Architecture, Dover Publ., N.Y., 1886.
6. Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture, Dover Publ., N.Y., 1965.
7. Ernst Cassirer - P. O. Kristeller - J. H. Randall, The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
8. Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979 (c/1951).