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What better way to live a city than to trace and understand its vibrant
past, while keeping your finger on the pulse of its exciting present!
Through a study of the revolutions that shaped Rome and Paris, we will
experience first hand how convulsive history is integrated into
an ever-evolving future. We invite you to explore everything
from monuments to museums, parks to cafés, boulevards to restaurants
in our vigorous pursuit of how these two grand cities came to be.
Revolutions leave marks on their cities: streets, buildings, monuments,
statues, and paintings are the traces of history that allow us to walk
back into the footsteps of a revolution. We propose to engage
you in the cities of Rome and Paris and immerse you in the time of Augustus
(27 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.) and that of the French Revolution (1789-1804)
respectively.
In Rome, we will study the visual campaigns that Augustus used to convince
the Roman people to give up hundreds of years of a Republic and embrace
the Empire he proposed to lead. The Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace), the
statue of Augustus at Primaporta, the Temple of Mars Ultor (Mars the
Avenger!) and the Augustan Forum are all monuments in Augustus’s
re-vision of Rome that successfully swayed the public. We will
walk amongst these monuments and try to understand their effect and
their power for socio-political change. Future emperors of Rome learned
Augustus’s lessons of political via images well, and we will study
some of their most illustrious inheritances both ancient (the Colosseum,
the Column of Trajan, and the Arch of Constantine, among many others)
and modern (the Futurists).
In Paris, we will study the visual culture that emerged around the political
theories that led to the Revolution in 1789. The fall of the Bastille
was just the beginning of the French Revolution – for another
decade, revolutionary actions continued and we will study their
traces in paintings (especially by Jacques-Louis David and
his students), objects (the 10-hour clock (to agree with the 10-based
metric system!) for example), caricatures (astounding images there!)
and documents (we will see the Rights of Man!). The French Revolution
engaged the populace Federal Festivals which involved sometimes day-long
celebrations of abstract concepts like Liberty and Unity – we
will trace the routes of these festivals through the streets of Paris
and feel for ourselves the impact of marking the city with our revolutionary
trail.
A series of on-site student- and faculty-led conversations
will enliven our experience, and journals written in
response to (creative and fun!) questions will furnish contemplative
opportunities. Free time is built in to the syllabus
for you to explore these two marvelous cities and discovery your own
revolutions as well. Because the Euro is so very strong against the
dollar, we have made sure that you are getting a great deal
for your money with the cost of this trip: all transportation
(from airplane ticket to week-long metro passes and everything in between),
hotels (very nice, very centrally located), breakfasts (plentiful!),
and entrances to museums (many) are all included, as well as some evening
meals.
COME JOIN US AND WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE REVOLUTION!
$3230
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Our Hotels in Rome and Paris
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List of Sites and Websites in Rome back
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Excellent
overall web site of all monuments and museums in Rome:
http://www.roma2000.it/english.htm
The
Ara Pacis
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/Ara_Pacis/home.html
Augustus of Primaporta
http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/primaporta/Augustus.htm
Forum of Augustus and the Temple of Mars Ultor
http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/imperialfora/forumaugustum.html
The Colosseum
http://www.the-colosseum.net/idx-en.htm
The Column of Trajan
http://cheiron.mcmaster.ca/~trajan/
The Arch of Constantine
http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/299_Arch_of_Constantine.html
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Map
of Monuments and Museums in Paris
http://www.paris.org/Maps/MM/
Cluny Museum
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/index.html
Louvre Museum
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Musée Carnavalet
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
The
Conciergerie
http://www.answers.com/topic/conciergerie
Pantheon
(press "enter," then scroll to the left until the Pantheon
magnifies - cool!)
http://www.monum.fr/prehome/prehome.dml
Musée
Jacquemart-André
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/jandre/home_en.htm
Amenities - back
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Rome:
The Transportation:
one-week transport card for all the buses and metros (and our hotel
is right neat a metro stop)
The Rome Archaeologia Card:
It will provide you entry into all of the following sites:
Colosseum
Palatinum Museum
Palazzo Altemps
Palazzo Massimo
Terme di Diocleziano
Crypta Balbi
Terme di Caracalla
Cecilia Metella
Villa dei Quintili
(Underline indicates National Rome Museum)
Paris:
The Transportation:
5-day
+ 3-day Paris Metro Pass for all buses and metro (and yes, there are
many near us)
Paris Museum Pass:
an astounding number of museums will be at our disposal!!!)***
Musée des Antiquités nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Arc de Triomphe
Tombeau de Napoléon 1er
Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet
Musée des Arts décoratifs
Musée des Arts et Métiers
Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Maison de Balzac
Musée Bourdelle
Musée Carnavalet
Musée Cernuschi
Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres
Abbaye royale de Chaalis
Musée Jacquemart-André
Château de Champs-sur-Marne
Musée du Cinéma
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - La Villette
Musée Cognacq-Jay
Musée national du Château de Compiègne
Conciergerie
Musée Condé - Château de Chantilly
Musée national de la Coopération franco-américaine
- Château de Blérancourt
Musée national Eugène Delacroix Musée départemental
Maurice Denis - Le Prieuré
Musée des Egouts de Paris
Musée d'Ennery
Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau
Musée national des Granges de Port-Royal
Musée Hébert
Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
Musée de l'Institut du monde arabe
Musée de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie
Musée du Louvre
Château de Maisons-Laffitte
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau
Musée de la Marine
Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la
Libération de Paris
Musée Jean Moulin Musée de la Mode et du textile Musée
de la Monnaie
Musée national des Monuments français
Musée Gustave Moreau
Château de la Motte Tilly
Musée national du Moyen Age - Thermes de Cluny
Musée de la Musique - La Villette
Musée Nissim de Camondo
Tours de Notre-Dame
Crypte de Notre-Dame
Musée national de l'Orangerie des Tuileries
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
Musée d'Orsay
Panthéon
Musée du Petit-Palais
Musée national Picasso
Château de Pierrefonds
Musée des Plans-reliefs
Musée de la Poste Château de Rambouillet
Musée national de la Renaissance - Château d'Ecouen Musée
Rodin
Maison d'Auguste Rodin à Meudon
Sainte-Chapelle
Basilique Saint-Denis
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Maison de Victor Hugo
Musée de la Vie Romantique
Château de Vincennes
Musée Zadkine
*** bold-face museums are those we will visit – but you can see
any that you want to!
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