Teaching code

4S01242

Teacher

Valerio Terraroli

Coordinator

Valerio Terraroli

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 19, 2018 al Jan 12, 2019.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

PREREQUISITES:
To profitably follow the course and sit the examination the students should possess adequate art history and historical knowledge.

EDUCATIONAL AIMS:
The student should be able to acquire the fundamental elements to critically interpret the History of Collecting, History of Museums, Museology and Museography. The student should be able to analyze and confront facts, formulating lines of reasoning and, consequently, the student should develop a smart and critic use of documents, sources, collectable materials, and architectural-expositive structures of museums.
The course intends to give tools for a correct speaking ability on historic/artistic problems and critic/historic/structural analysis of a museum collection, and various professional figures in the museum management. The student should be able to use the correct glossary of the specific sector.
The student should acquire the knowledge of various development lines of art history, History of Art Criticism and History of Taste, Collectionism, Museums; the student should also be able to reinforce different kind of critical approaches, to demonstrate capacity in reinterpretation of data and obtain critic notations.

Program

Museology as historic-artistic discipline through the history of museum as institution

The knowledge of History of Museum from Hellenistic tradition to the Twentieth century, with notions of History of Museography with the following information:
Definition of museion in the Classic Age
The collection of art objects in Roman and Medieval Culture
The Renaissance studiolo
The Wunderkammer
The royal collections and the Mannerist studiolo, the Gallery of Antiquity
The royal and noble great collection; Gallery of paintings
The discovery of Antique
The birth of museum of Neoclassical Age
The museum in Nineteenth century
Scientific museums
Museums of Decorative Arts
House-Museum
A specific focus will be dedicated to Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts.
During the course various tours will be purposed: Verona, Museum of Castelvecchio (Carlo Scarpa’s project) and Modern Art Gallery Achille Forti.

Examination Methods

The exam purposes should verify the learning and critic reprocessing capacities of the treated topics, texts and bibliography.
The exam contents will be over the subjects recommended during the lectures and external tours.
The modalities will be oral through a conversation on the above subjects
The exam will be oral with a conversation between student and professor related to the topics of the course, the bibliography and critic texts, the external tours.
The evatuation is in 30/30.