HISTORY OF MODERN ARTS I
STORIA DELL'ARTE MODERNA I
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| 2021/2022 | 6 |
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| Cecilia Prete | after lessons and by appointment (Palazzo Albani, via Bramante 17) |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to equip students with a sound knowledge of the most significant episodes occurred in the history of Italian art, from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth century, through the study and analysis of paintings and plastic and architecture works. The course also promotes visual literacy, further to recognizing the works of art students will learn to consider the role they played in the different contexts taken in exam from a social and cultural point of view. In particular, the aim will be to promote the knowledge of fundamental themes of history of Italian Art : the first Florentine Renaissance ; the centers of the Renaissance and the culture of the Italian courts ; the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance : Leonardo , Michelangelo , Raphael , between Florence and Rome ; the Venetian Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini , Giorgione , Titian , Tintoretto , Veronese ; the season of the Mannerism and the painting of the Counter reformation; the renewal of art in Seicento : Carracci and carracceschi painters , Caravaggio and his followers ; Roman Baroque: Bernini , Borromini , Pietro da Cortona ; other centers of the Baroque in Italy
Program
The most important works of art produced in Italy for public and private patrons, from early Renaissance to Baroque, will be studied through the reading and interpretation of images, documents and historiography sources.The program includes the followings topics: the first Florentine Renaissance ; the centers of the Renaissance and the culture of the Italian courts ; the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance : Leonardo , Michelangelo , Raphael , between Florence and Rome ; the Venetian Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini , Giorgione , Titian , Tintoretto , Veronese ; the season of the Mannerism and the painting of the Counter reformation; the renewal of art in Seicento : Carracci and carracceschi painters , Caravaggio and his followers ; Roman Baroque: Bernini , Borromini , Pietro da Cortona ; other centers of the Baroque in Italy.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and comprehension ability
Knowledge and comprehension of the several aspects pertaining to the most important episodes of Italian History of Art from the XV to the XVII century.
Knowledge, comprehension and identification of the painting, sculpture and architectonic works of art from the beginning of the XV to the end of the XVII century.
Applied knowledge and applied comprehension ability
Knowledge and comprehension of the paramount concepts illustrated during the course and of the figurative episodes presented. Ability to elaborate and discuss the knowledge pertaining to Italian History of Art and the cultural context which determines its course during the XV, XVI and XVII century.
Judgment autonomy
Ability to identify research tools and methods relevant to the contents of the course referring to historiographical sources.
Ability to advance topics liable to further research and to carry research activities relevant to the course.
Communication skills
Ability to interpret the contents and the results of the course.
Ability to illustrate the contents illustrated during the course using a suitable terminology.
Learning skills
Ability to evaluate the artistic context presented during the course in a critical and autonomous way.
Trace and find historiographical and bibliographic sources needed to deepen studies and carry research.
Use the research tools chosen in a correct way from a methodological point of view.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Identification exercises; study visits to public art collections.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures
Identification exercises
Lectures on specific topics by field expertsStudy visits to public art collections
- Attendance
Students who want to take the exam as attending students are invited to participate in study visits and the lectures by field experts, and visit the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche.
- Course books
- a text from the following: G. Bora, G. Fiaccadori, A. Negri, A. Nova, I luoghi dell'arte, storia opere percorsi, Milano, Electa - Bruno Mondatori, 2003, voll. from Florentine Renaissance to sec. XVII or S. Settis, T. Montanari, Arte, una storia naturale e civile, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 2019, voll. from Florentine Renaissance (sec. XIV) to sec. XVII.
- E. Passignat, Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte, Roma, Carocci editore, 2017, pp. 23- 48; 157-224.
- PowerPoint presentations with the images studied during the course (the presentations will be available at the end of the course and can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it).
- Assessment
The exam consists of a preliminary assessment test in written form (60 minutes) which involves the identification of 10 images – works of art between the XV and the XVII century – by providing the following data: object/subject; author; dating; place of display. The test form provided includes the writing of a short historical and critical profile of the work of art and its context.
Once passed the written test, candidates are admitted to the oral exam aiming at determining the understanding capabilities of the concepts discussed during the course and the ability to summarize and coordinate the answers, demonstrating to be endowed with appropriate expressive and communication abilities and the acquaintance with an adequate language. Evaluation criteria are based on a 4-level scale and will take into account the knowledge command degree, the answers articulation level, language suitability, critical and to-argue abilities. The exam grade will be expressed with a scale out of thirty (18/30).
Students are kindly requested to attend the opening of the exam session.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
- a text fom the following: G. Bora, G. Fiaccadori, A. Negri, A. Nova, I luoghi dell'arte, storia opere percorsi, Milano, Electa - Bruno Mondatori, 2003, voll. from Florentine Renaissance to sec. XVII, or S. Settis, T. Montanari, Arte, una storia naturale e civile, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 2019, voll. from Florentine Renaissance (sec. XIV) to sec. XVII.
- E. Passignat, Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte, Roma, Carocci editore, 2017, pp. 23- 48; 157-224.
- Another text from the following: A. Chastel, I centri del Rinascimento. Arte italiana 1460-1500, Milano, R.C.S. Libri, 1965 or T. Montanari, Il Barocco, Torino, Einaudi, 2012.
- PowerPoint presentations with the images studied during the course (the presentations will be available at the end of the course and can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it).
- Assessment
The exam consists of a preliminary assessment test in written form (60 minutes) which involves the identification of 10 images – works of art between the XV and the XVII century – by providing the following data: object/subject; author; dating; place of display. The test form provided includes the writing of a short historical and critical profile of the work of art and its context.
Once passed the written test, candidates are admitted to the oral exam aiming at determining the understanding capabilities of the concepts discussed during the course and the ability to summarize and coordinate the answers, demonstrating to be endowed with appropriate expressive and communication abilities and the acquaintance with an adequate language. Evaluation criteria are based on a 4-level scale and will take into account the knowledge command degree, the answers articulation level, language suitability, critical and to-argue abilities. The exam grade will be expressed with a scale out of thirty (18/30).
Students are kindly requested to attend the opening of the exam session.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
Lectures in italian language. Previously students wishing to take exam in English have to contact the professor
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