Previous Curriculum

The curriculum for Torrey Rome varies each year. Below are brief descriptions of each class since the inauguration of the program in 2008. These are immediately followed by a list of assigned reading.

2008: On the Nature and Form of Beauty
An investigation into Renaissance texts regarding the lives of famous and influential artists as well as the mechanics of painting, sculpting and building. Attention was also given to theoretical discussions of art and beauty.

Leon Battista Alberti

• On the Art of Building in Ten Books
• On Painting

Benvenuto Cellini

• On Sculpture

Ascanio Condivi

• The Life of Michelangelo

Giorgio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione and Giovani Pietro Bellori

• The Lives of Caravaggio

Giovanni Morelli

• "Italian Painters"

Dorothy Sayers

• "Towards a Christian Aesthetic"

Leo Tolstoy

• What is Art?

Giorgio Vasari

• The Lives of the Artists

Scripture

• Ezekiel 40-48
• 1 Kings 1-10
• Nehemiah
• Song of Solomon