Teaching code

4S001316

Teacher

Valerio Terraroli

Coordinator

Valerio Terraroli

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• History of art criticism and art literature (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

1 A dal Sep 26, 2022 al Nov 5, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The students should be able to aquire the elements to read and critically explain a historical/artistic testimonies and literary testimonies in an artistic/historical setting. The student should be able to examine analysis and comparisons on facts, expressing general lines of reasoning and deductions on the main subjects; consequently, the students should develop a smart use of the sources. At the end of the course the student should know the main textual sources related to the artistic production of the early Christian at the end of the Eighteenth century; to apply a correct analysis method to historic and artistic sources; to contextualize the sources historically and culturally. The course should give the tools for a correct exposition of a historic and artistic problem of critic, historic and subject analysis of a literary text. The course should give the tools for an own judgement autonomy and communicative ability. The student should be able to use the specific glossary of the discipline. The course would give tools to develop the judgement autonomy of the students. The student should acquire the knowledge of different lines of development of art history and historic, critic and subject analysis of a literary text.

Prerequisites and basic notions

In order to profitably follow the course and take the exam it is necessary to have adequate basic knowledge of both history and geography, and art history

Program

History of Literature profiles and origin of Art Criticism
Introduction to the definition of the discipline, its statute and methodological approaches
Definition of artistic literature
The classic tradition and the medieval culture
The tradition of Giottesque workshop: the Art Book of Cennini, Dante
The Commentari of Lorenzo Ghiberti
The “system” of Leon Battista Alberti
The architectural essays in the Fifteenth century
The biographical tradition and the figure of the artist
Leonardo
The XVI century
Travel guides, memory of the ancient and collecting
From humanistic biography to the Vite of Vasari
The work of Giorgio Vasari and the comparison between two editions of the Vite
Analysis of some Vite
The correspondence and the memories
The reactions to Vasari and the culture of the Counter-Reformation
The manieristic culture
The XVII century
Historiography and collecting in Rome: Agucchi, Giustiniani, Mancini
The nobles matter: local claims (Ridolfi and Boschini in Venice, Malvasia in Bologna)
Antiquaniarism and Classicism: Giovan Pietro Bellori
The XVIII century
Between collections of documents and "eye exercises": Muratori, Maffei, Bottari
The new editions of Vasari's Vite: from Bottari to Della Valle
Renew of antique tradition: Winckelmann and Mengs
Local erudition: Ranghiasci, Da Morrona, Mariotti, Orsini
New museal tendencies and reflection in artistic storiography
The Storia pittorica of Luigi Lanzi

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Classroom lessons with the help, if necessary, of images and texts.
Seminar for reading and commenting on texts by the main authors (optional) for a total of 12 hours in addition to the 36 hours of the actual course (PhD student with FSG).

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will be oral with a conversation between student and professor related to the topics of the course, the bibliography and critic texts and works treated during the lessons and the seminar for reading and analyzing texts.
The evaluation will be on 30/30.

Evaluation criteria

The exam purposes should verify the learning and critic reprocessing capacities of the treated topics, texts and bibliography.
The modalities will be oral through a conversation on the above subjects.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

30/30

Exam language

Italiano