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Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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Sem 1A | Sep 23, 2019 | Oct 31, 2019 |
Sem 1B | Nov 11, 2019 | Jan 11, 2020 |
Sem 2A | Feb 17, 2020 | Mar 28, 2020 |
Sem 2B | Apr 6, 2020 | May 30, 2020 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione d'esame invernale | Jan 13, 2020 | Feb 15, 2020 |
Sessione d'esame estiva (gli esami sono sospesi durante la sessione di laurea) | Jun 3, 2020 | Jul 25, 2020 |
Sessione d'esame autunnale | Aug 24, 2020 | Sep 19, 2020 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione di laurea estiva | Jul 6, 2020 | Jul 11, 2020 |
Sessione di laurea autunnale 19-20 | Nov 2, 2020 | Nov 7, 2020 |
sessione di laurea invernale 19-20 | Apr 7, 2021 | Apr 13, 2021 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
Sospensione delle lezioni | Nov 2, 2019 | Nov 2, 2019 |
Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2019 | Dec 8, 2019 |
Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2019 | Jan 6, 2020 |
Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 10, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2020 | Apr 25, 2020 |
Festa del Lavoro | May 1, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
Sospensione delle lezioni | May 2, 2020 | May 2, 2020 |
Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2020 | May 21, 2020 |
Sospensione delle lezioni | May 22, 2020 | May 23, 2020 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2020 | Jun 2, 2020 |
Vacanze estive | Aug 10, 2020 | Aug 15, 2020 |
Exam calendar
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Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
European Art History (i) (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S001435
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Also offered in courses:
- History of Modern Art of the course Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-ART/02 - HISTORY OF MODERN ART
Period
1 A, 1 B
Learning outcomes
Being able to read the architectural forms and recognize the stylistic characteristics of the individual authors.
Program
Contents
The course follows a diachronic itinerary of art history from the Late Gothic to Neoclassicism. It addresses, as a premise, a reflection on periodization, starting from the Romanesque and Gothic.
The student will be able to choose only some of the topics listed here on the basis of personal interests, but he must demonstrate that he has learned the entire path in its general lines.
The criteria for choosing the topics and their number will be specified later.
Reference point for the preparation are the notes of the lessons, a manual to be agreed and some assessments for which it will be sufficient to start surfing the internet.
Introduction
Henry Focillon, a vision on Western art. The Romanesque. Why Romanesque. Meaning of the term. Historical context. Geography and chronology
The Gothic. Why gothic. New religious orders. Feudalism and monarchies. Religious mentality (Abbot Suger's aesthetics and Bernardo di Chiaravalle).
Topics
1. Late Gothic or International Gothic: the art of the autumn of the Middle Ages according to the definition of Huizinga. Before that: hints of art at the papal court of Avignon. The courts and their contacts. European centers of the international Gothic (the courts); Italian centers. University of Paris, Bohemia, the Visconti court between Milan and Pavia and its European cultural range. The case of the Milan Cathedral.
Art of the Alpine Arch; the master of Thon; Weicher Stil.
Persistence of the late Gothic in Europe.
2. Painting in the Flanders. Geography and history: the Duchy of Burgundy. The sculptures by Claus Sluter.
The first generation of the “Flemish school”, the protagonists: Jan Van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Robert Campin. The second generation: Petrus Christus and Dieric Bouts. The latest generation of "primitives": Hans Memling and Hugo van der Goes.
Flemish painting and Italian painting, the presences, the centers, the influences.
The perception of the Florentine Renaissance in Europe
Aragonese Naples, foreign presences; Antonello da Messina and Flemish art.
Pedro Berruguete: a Spaniard of Flemish inspiration in Urbino (1474-1482).
Just of Ghent; a Flemish in Urbino: (1473-1475).
3. German Renaissance painters, with attention to the masters of woodcut and intaglio art and to the diffusion and influence of their graphic work: Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Other protagonists: Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Altdorfer, Mattias Grünewald, Hans Baldung-Grien. An example of the great season of wooden sculpture: Tilman Riemenschneider (the Rothenburg altar).
The French fifteenth century, with particular regard for Jean Fouquet and his trip to Italy.
4. Modern manner in the Veneto and the foreign presences: the stays of Albrecht Dürer, the relationships with Giovanni Bellini, give and take, with particular regard for Giorgione. The altarpiece of the Madonna del Rosario for San Bartolomeo, the ensemble of emblematic values of an historical moment.
Hieronymus Bosch, with attention to his collecting fortune in Venice. The interpretative problematic, especially of religious nature, of his work.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his journey to Italy (1551).
5. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Sebastiano del Piombo: occasional European stays and commissions, their "universal" fortune. 1527 Sack of Rome, the diaspora of artists.
Fontainebleau: the project by Francis I.
6. Titian and the Habsburgs, Titian and the other European courts.
Mannerism as a European phenomenon. Foreign Mannerists in Florence; Giambologna and Giovanni Stradanus,
Art at the court of Rudolf II.
7. Protestantism and art, post-Tridentine art. The principles and different approaches to the figurative arts, regarding the function, contents, attitudes and mentality of the recipients and collectors.
The basic premises: the Carracci, naturalism and the classical ideal, Annibale Carracci and the Farnese Gallery, classicism.
Caravaggio, painting of reality.
8. The Baroque: general concepts. Rome as a European landmark. Bernini and the late trip to France.
The protagonists of seventeenth-century European painting, between classicism, Caravaggism and Baroque.
England: Inigo Jones, Palladio's fortune and Neopalladianism.
Foreword on the history and geography of the southern and northern Netherlands.
Southern Netherlands: Rubens, his stay in Italy, his extraordinary European fortune; Anton van Dyck, between Flanders and England, with particular regard to portraiture and his presence in Genoa and Rome.
Northern Netherlands, historical and confessional context, collecting history: Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer.
France: the Caravaggeschi. The protagonists Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Simon Vouet, Louis Le Nain, Georges de la Tour, Charles Le Brun
Spain, the Siglo de Oro. Between Seville and Madrid.
Premise. El Greco and his European path, an extraordinary case of late Mannerist persistence.
Premise: Jusepe de Ribera, Spagnoletto in Naples.
The protagonists: Diego Velàsquez, Francisco de Zurbaràn, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Hints to Juan Sánchez Cotán, still life, to Juan Bautista Maíno.
9. Rococo: French phenomenon, European emulation.
Painting in France: Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Étienne Liotard
English painting: William Hogarth; conversation piece (the group portrait genre), Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough.
10. The fortune in Europe of the Venetian painters of the eighteenth century.
Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Rosalba Carriera.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Würzburg and Madrid.
Canaletto, landscape painting, his European collecting fortune, his English stay.
11. Neoclassicism. The poetics, general concepts.
Antonio Canova, profile; his great clients: France, England, Germany, Austria.
Anton Raphael Mengs; Jacques-Louis David and history painting; Berthel Thorvaldsen.
To conclude: Francisco Goya.
Bibliography
The preparation for the exam is based on the course notes and on the study of a manual where identifying the chapters that deal with the topics listed above and, if necessary, expanding that information.
During the introductory lesson the most appropriate manuals will be recommended.
Teaching methods: Lessons with projection of images, then made available to the student.
Examination Methods
Exam methods: written
Students can take the exam in a single written test. At their choice, however, they can divide the exam into several sessions, by sending an e-mail communication of the chosen exam program in time to the professor.
Type D and Type F activities
years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° 3° | Lectures "Musiche/Culture/Civiltà" | F |
Vincenzo Borghetti
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Musei civici Verona Conferences | F | Not yet assigned |
1° 2° 3° | C.T.G. Lectures | F |
Alessandra Zamperini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Graphic and photographic documentation of the archaeological artefacts: from traditional drawings to digital sources | F |
Patrizia Basso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Ephigraphy of production and distribution | F |
Alfredo Buonopane
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Introduction to the study of decorative arts | F |
Valerio Terraroli
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Presente e futuro del pianeta. economia, sostenibilità e politiche | F |
Gian Maria Varanini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | How to write your dissertation | F |
Alessandro Arcangeli
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Introductory seminar on art interpretation - BC | F |
Enrico Dal Pozzolo
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° 3° | Musei civici Verona Conferences | F | Not yet assigned |
1° 2° 3° | C.T.G. Lectures | F |
Alessandra Zamperini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Graphic and photographic documentation of the archaeological artefacts: from traditional drawings to digital sources (Part II) | F |
Patrizia Basso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Fai un giro in villa (1 cfu) | F |
Monica Molteni
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Workshop on classical archaeology | F |
Piergiovanna Grossi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Laboratory of medieval archaeology | F |
Elisa Lerco
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Basic laboratory of data | F |
Maurizio Boscaini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Educational workshop on bibliotherapy | F |
Marco Dalla Valle
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Workshop on prehistory and protohistory | F |
Anita Casarotto
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° 3° | Art Verona | F | Not yet assigned |
1° 2° 3° | Giovedì' culturali dell'ISSR I ciclo | F |
Tiziana Franco
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Giovedì' culturali dell'ISSR II ciclo | F |
Tiziana Franco
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Univero’ 2019 | F |
Tiziana Franco
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° 3° | Urbs picta sulla storia dell’arte contemporanea | F | Not yet assigned |
1° 2° 3° | Urbs picta to be played - Video, immagine in movimento e videoinstallazione nella “generazione ottanta” | F | Not yet assigned |
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List of thesis proposals
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Ambiti di tesi | Art & Architecture - Art & Architecture |