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B008670 - HISTORY AF ART CRITICISM
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Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2018 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
24/02/2020 ⇒ 05/06/2020
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Yes
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
An Introduction to Art Theory and Criticism: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment.
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PROGRAMMA
History of Art Criticism: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment.
NB: Class attendance is mandatory. The teaching material will be made available by the lecturer at the beginning of the course. Texts will be read and commented during class):
1) Themes of the course;
2) Antologia di fonti: dal XII al XVIII secolo, ed. by A. Nigro, 2019. A selection of texts including the following authors: San Bernardo di Chiaravalle; Suger, abate di Saint Denis; Teofilo; Villard de Honnecourt; Guglielmo Durand; Cennino Cennini; Lorenzo Ghiberti; Antonio Manetti; Bartolomeo Facio; Leon Battista Alberti; Antonio Averlino, detto il Filarete; Leonardo da Vinci; Antonio Billi; Anonimo Magliabechiano; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Benvenuto Cellini; Paolo Pino; Ludovico Dolce; Giorgio Vasari; Paolo Veronese; Agostino Carracci; Gabriele Paleotti; Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; Giovanni Battista Agucchi; Nicolas Poussin; Paul Fréart de Chantelou; Marco Boschini; Giovanni Pietro Bellori; Charles Le Brun; Roger de Piles; Edmund Burke; William Hogarth; Sir Joshua Reynolds; Denis Diderot; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing).
3) G.C. Sciolla, Studiare l'arte. Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Torino, UTET Università, 2010.
Further optional readings (please note that the following texts do not belong to the exam programme):
Julius Schlosser Magnino, La letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna (1924), Firenze 2000;
Anthony Blunt, Le teorie artistiche in Italia. Dal Rinascimento al Manierismo (1959), Torino 1966;
Michael Baxandall, Giotto e gli umanisti (1971), Milano 1994;
Paola Barocchi, Storiografia e collezionismo dal Vasari al Lanzi, in Storia dell'arte italiana, parte prima, vol. II, L'artista e il pubblico, Torino 1979, pp. 5-81 e illustrazioni nn. 1-65;
Franco Bernabei, Percorsi della critica d'arte, Padova 1995;
Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti. Un genio universale, Roma-Bari 2003;
Donata Levi, Il discorso sull'arte. Dalla tarda antichità a Ghiberti, Milano 2010;
Barbara Agosti, Giorgio Vasari. Luoghi e tempi delle Vite, Milano 2013;
Tomaso Montanari, L'età barocca. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte (1600-1750), Roma 2013;
Orietta Rossi Pinelli (a cura di), La storia delle storie dell'arte, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
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History of Art Criticism: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment.
NB: Class attendance is mandatory. The teaching material will be made available by the lecturer at the beginning of the course. Texts will be read and commented during class):
1) Themes of the course;
2) Antologia di fonti: dal XII al XVIII secolo, ed. by A. Nigro, 2019. A selection of texts including the following authors: San Bernardo di Chiaravalle; Suger, abate di Saint Denis; Teofilo; Villard de Honnecourt; Guglielmo Durand; Cennino Cennini; Lorenzo Ghiberti; Antonio Manetti; Bartolomeo Facio; Leon Battista Alberti; Antonio Averlino, detto il Filarete; Leonardo da Vinci; Antonio Billi; Anonimo Magliabechiano; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Benvenuto Cellini; Paolo Pino; Ludovico Dolce; Giorgio Vasari; Paolo Veronese; Agostino Carracci; Gabriele Paleotti; Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; Giovanni Battista Agucchi; Nicolas Poussin; Paul Fréart de Chantelou; Marco Boschini; Giovanni Pietro Bellori; Charles Le Brun; Roger de Piles; Edmund Burke; William Hogarth; Sir Joshua Reynolds; Denis Diderot; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing).
3) G.C. Sciolla, Studiare l'arte. Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Torino, UTET Università, 2010.
Further optional readings (please note that the following texts do not belong to the exam programme):
Julius Schlosser Magnino, La letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna (1924), Firenze 2000;
Anthony Blunt, Le teorie artistiche in Italia. Dal Rinascimento al Manierismo (1959), Torino 1966;
Michael Baxandall, Giotto e gli umanisti (1971), Milano 1994;
Paola Barocchi, Storiografia e collezionismo dal Vasari al Lanzi, in Storia dell'arte italiana, parte prima, vol. II, L'artista e il pubblico, Torino 1979, pp. 5-81 e illustrazioni nn. 1-65;
Franco Bernabei, Percorsi della critica d'arte, Padova 1995;
Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti. Un genio universale, Roma-Bari 2003;
Donata Levi, Il discorso sull'arte. Dalla tarda antichità a Ghiberti, Milano 2010;
Barbara Agosti, Giorgio Vasari. Luoghi e tempi delle Vite, Milano 2013;
Tomaso Montanari, L'età barocca. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte (1600-1750), Roma 2013;
Orietta Rossi Pinelli (a cura di), La storia delle storie dell'arte, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
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Learning Objectives
The course aims at developing students' learning and communication skills as well as their ability to make autonomous judgements. Students will achieve a good level of knowledge and understanding on key issues of art theory and criticism from the Middle Ages to Late Eighteenth Century.
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of medieval and modern art.
For Erasmus students: a C1 level of Italian is essential for this course.
For Erasmus students: a C1 level of Italian is essential for this course.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures will be accompanied by teaching modalities implying an interaction with students, in particular as far as the analysis of sources and documents is concerned.
Further information
The course will be held in the second semester.
Type of Assessment
Written examination to assess students' attainment of the course goals (see above). Questions will concern the themes of the course as well as the sources and documents and the bibliography that are indicated in the programme. The examination will last 2 hours. Question typology: open questions; closed questions; multiple choice questions. The evaluation will rely on the following criteria : level of knowledge and understanding; learning and communication skills; ability to make autonomous judgements.
Course program
This is an introductory course to art theory and criticism from the Middle Ages to 18th century focusing in particular on the following authors: Teofilo; S. Bernardo di Chiaravalle; l'abate Sigeri; Villard de Honnecourt; Guglielmo Durand; Cennino Cennini; Lorenzo Ghiberti; Antonio Manetti; Bartolomeo Fazio; Leon Battista Alberti; Antonio Averlino, detto il Filarete; Piero della Francesca; Leonardo da Vinci; Albrecht Dürer; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Giorgio Vasari; Benvenuto Cellini; Paolo Veronese; Annibale Carracci; Agostino Carracci; Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; Federico Zuccari; Giovanni Pietro Bellori; Nicolas Poussin; Charles Le Brun; Roger de Piles; William Hogarth; Sir Joshua Reynolds; Denis Diderot; Il conte di Caylus; Johann J. Winckelmann; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.