Teaching code

4S01242

Teacher

Stefania Cretella

Coordinator

Stefania Cretella

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

1 B dal Nov 15, 2021 al Jan 12, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

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 from Hellenistic tradition to the Twentieth century, with notions of History of Museography with the following information:

Definition of museion in the Classic Age and ICOM definition of Museum
Professional figures active within museum institutions
The collection of art objects in Roman and Medieval Culture
The Renaissance studiolo
The Wunderkammer
The royal and noble great collection
French Revolution and Louvre
The birth of museum of Neoclassical Age
The museum in Nineteenth century
The Madrid Conference of 1934
Scientific museums
World's fair and museums of Arts Décoratifs
House-Museum
Museum in Italy (1945-1960)
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.

In addition to the material indicated in the bibliography, students will have to study a book to choose from:
Adalgisa Lugli, Museologia, Jaca Book, Milano 1992 (Biblioteca Frinzi BF 30 B 435)
Julius von Schlosser, Raccolte d'arte e di meraviglie del tardo rinascimento, Firenze, Biblioteca Sansoni, 1974 (Frinzi BF 120 C 70 Biblioteca Ambrosoli STL 069 33)
Simona Troilo, La patria e la memoria. Tutela e patrimonio culturale nell’Italia unita, Electa, Milano 2005 (Biblioteca Frinzi BF 140 F 877)
Antonello Negri, L’arte in mostra. Una storia delle esposizioni, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2011, pp. 5-153 (Biblioteca Frinzi BF 120 C 919)


The materials shown in class will be made available to students, via the e-learning platform.

Bibliography

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.