The course aims to provide an highly specialized knowledge about the main historical and artistic phenomena in Rome during the early modern age, investigated under the different aspects of the historical context, the historiography of the art history, and the stylistic analysis. At the end of the course, the student should be able to present the contents learned through the frontal lectures, the reading of the bibliography and the visits to the artistic monuments, with clarity and competence, demonstrating the ability to relate, through an independent judgment and a critical awareness, different historical and artistic phenomena in Rome in the early modern age.