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This course travels through Italy twice a year, exploring every aspect of culture – including history, music, politics, food, literature, and philosophy – in addition to art and architecture. Alongside studying the greatest masterpieces of Western civilisation, tutors lead students oS the beaten track to uncover some of Italy’s hidden wonders. The course visits Venice, Castelfranco, Bologna, Florence, Siena, and Rome, as well as many other cities along the way. A truly wonderful and complete experience of Italy.
This course travels through Italy twice a year – Spring and Autumn.
We use art and architecture as gateways into a wide range of subjects, including history, art history, philosophy, politics, music, and literature. At AHA, teaching students to appreciate the skill of creativity is something we take seriously. That’s why we incorporate numerous creative classes, giving students the chance to experiment with watercolours, paper marbling, gold leafing, marble sculpting, and more. Our aim is to help students generate new ideas and develop the confidence to express them.
You will visit Venice, Castelfranco, Bologna, Florence, Siena, and Rome, with day trips to Padua, Ravenna, San Gimignano, Naples, and Pompei.
Our course is a wonderfully ambitious programme, spanning interests from the ancient world in Rome to the Renaissance in Florence and contemporary art in Venice. You will learn to recognise key family names, major artists, and the historical events that shaped the evolution of art – building a vivid understanding of how culture develops over time.
It seems bonkers to study art in a lecture room when you can join AHA and experience it onsite, in small tutorial groups where everyone can see the works clearly and take part in meaningful discussion.
AHA’s course is carefully structured, yet wonderfully wide-ranging – we are interested in everything: drawings, contemporary art, conservation, gardens, music, as well as painting, sculpture, and architecture.
With AHA, looking at art and architecture becomes a visceral experience, which is powerful and exhilarating.
