Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
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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I semestre | Oct 1, 2018 | Jan 12, 2019 |
II semestre | Feb 18, 2019 | Jun 1, 2019 |
Session | From | To |
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ESAMI LINGUE- sessione invernale | Jan 14, 2019 | Feb 16, 2019 |
ESAMI LINGUE- sessione estiva | Jun 3, 2019 | Jul 27, 2019 |
ESAMI LINGUE- sessione autunnale | Aug 26, 2019 | Sep 21, 2019 |
Session | From | To |
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LAUREE LINGUE - sessione autunnale (a.a. 2017/18) | Nov 12, 2018 | Nov 17, 2018 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2017/18) | Apr 1, 2019 | Apr 6, 2019 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione estiva (a.a. 2018/19) | Jul 8, 2019 | Jul 13, 2019 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione autunnale (a.a. 2018/19) | Nov 4, 2019 | Nov 9, 2019 |
LAUREE LINGUE - sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2018/19) | Mar 30, 2020 | Apr 4, 2020 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2018 | Nov 1, 2018 |
Sospensione dell'attività didattica | Nov 2, 2018 | Nov 3, 2018 |
Festa dell’Immacolata | Dec 8, 2018 | Dec 8, 2018 |
VACANZE DI NATALE | Dec 22, 2018 | Jan 6, 2019 |
VACANZE DI PASQUA | Apr 19, 2019 | Apr 23, 2019 |
Sospensione dell'attività didattica | Apr 24, 2019 | Apr 24, 2019 |
Festa della liberazione | Apr 25, 2019 | Apr 25, 2019 |
Festa del lavoro | May 1, 2019 | May 1, 2019 |
Sospensione dell'attività didattica | May 20, 2019 | May 20, 2019 |
Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2019 | May 21, 2019 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2019 | Jun 2, 2019 |
VACANZE ESTIVE | Aug 13, 2019 | Aug 18, 2019 |
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 enrolment year.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
History of Illustration (2018/2019)
Teaching code
4S00903
Teacher
Coordinatore
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-ART/02 - HISTORY OF MODERN ART
Period
I semestre dal Oct 1, 2018 al Jan 12, 2019.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes, methodology
This course provides the elements students need to understand the relationship between writing and the figurative apparatus, including book ornamentation, and to be able to assess the aesthetic, communicative and didactic functions of book illustration.
It begins with the consideration of the book as an “artistic” product with its own formal and stylistic features. To this end looking to the past, even the remote past, serves as a premise for approaching the book with greater awareness and understanding how its design and production have evolved in contemporary communicative media (video, computer-based, digital etc.). In other words, the educational objectives are to provide a historical background combining forms of continuity and technological innovations, aesthetics and communication, that will be useful for students interested in pursuing a career and making choices in the field of publishing.
The course focuses on and brings together three fundamental elements. The first concerns the aesthetics of font and typesetting, that is, the “architectural organism” considered in terms of its rule-bound formal aspects, while contemporary examples are approached as instances of experimental and provocative “breaks” with tradition. To this end, the course briefly addresses the main stages in the emergence of the alphabets of ancient civilizations up to the formation of Roman writing, the foundation of the classical tradition of all subsequent printing activities including contemporary examples.
There will also be institutional references to the significance of writing and the image in relation to texts in ancient civilizations, including those outside of Europe and especially in connection with their religions and symbolic or sacred values.
The second element regards the procedures used to create figurative designs and illustrations, for example illumination, woodblock and intaglio in their various forms (direct and indirect, involving the graver and etching with its multiple variations) leading up to the most modern industrial systems of reproduction, beginning with lithography and going on to cover the ensuing evolution of industrial printing. The course also addresses the terminology used in the various European languages.
The third element involves a diachronic investigation of the history of illustrated books from the birth of the printing press to the modern and contemporary ages, making note of the typological features which, albeit through changing styles and techniques, have persisted over time. The study of this latter element will involve considering the structural nature of the code and the relationship between the field of writing and the field of the image from late antiquity through the main junctures of the Middle Ages, such as the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
Pedagogically speaking, students will be guided in learning the stylistic and evaluative method of analysis applied to illustrated books. The same method is used in the course on modern art history and this is another reason why the latter course should be considered preliminary. In the classroom, students will be engaged in discussion following a seminar-style approach in order to aid them in acquiring the appropriate analytical vocabulary.
Approaching the history of illustration using the methods of art history requires locating the key figures of the art of printing and illustration within the geography and history of Italian and European culture.
Due to the brief duration of the course, it will not be possible to hold classes at libraries or temporary exhibitions. Instead, students will be provided with more in-depth information during class sessions, particularly as concerns the main stages of the history of illustration, including contemporary illustration.
At any rate, students will be permitted to choose these arguments according to their own interests. On the basis of the specialized literature presented in class, students will have to choose an exam topic for which they demonstrate having assimilated the methodological guidelines provided throughout the course.
Program
* Introduction
1. Illustration and decoration. Terminology and meanings. Decorum and decoration in classic and modern aesthetics.
2. The birth of writing. First media and first historical evidence.
3. Roman writing.
4. From rotolo to codice.
5.-6. The miniature technique. First miniature codex, exemplifications of the relationship between text and image.
7. Civilization, religious books and illustrations: Judaism, Islam etc.
8. Codex with illustrations: geographic areas.
The Church of Rome and the role of the image. The spread of Christianity, Benedictine order and the production of illustrated codex. The Church of Byzantium and the civilization of the illustrated codex, the iconoclasm and its theological assumptions. Palestine, Syria and Christian Africa. Insular culture and civilization of illustrated codex.
9. Periodization and miniature history in the Middle Ages.
The Carolingian and Ottoman civilization. The Romanesque, the Gothic. The Italian Gothic miniatures. Late Gothic in Europe and in Italy.
10.-11. The humanist codex with illustrations. The invention of the press and the first illustrated books in Germany and Italy, literary genres and image roles. Incunabuli illustrated with particular regard to Roman proto-typists and trade situation in Venice up to Aldo Manuzio.
12. Theory. Reading and commentary of the Iubilatio. Alberti, Feliciano Feliciano, Mantegna and the littera mantiniana, Damiano da Moille, Luca Pacioli, De Divina proportione.
13.-14. The woodcut. The great protagonists of the xylographic technique. Schongauer, Dürer, Luca of Leida, Titian, Ugo da Carpi.
15. Calcografia, charateristics of direct engraving. Bulino, puntasecca, maniera nera. Pollaiolo, Mantegna, Raimondi.
16. Intaglio printing, engraving and etching. Acquaforte, acquatinta, ceramolle, lavis. Parmigianino, Barocci, Callot; Cort, Carracci.
17. The title page: origins and evolution. Functions and figurative typologies.
18. Key moments of the typographical font in the 16th century, Manuzio and his legacy. The protagonists in Italy and Europe.
19. Fundamentals of illustrated publishing in the 16th century.
20. Main artists in Italy and Europe (16th century).
21. Fundamentals of illustrated publishing in the 17th century.
22. Rembrandt.
23. Fundamentals of illustrated publishing in the 18th century.
24. Piranesi. Tecnique, genres, international trade.
25. Main artists in Europe (18th century). Bodoni and Neoclassicism. Typographic manuals.
26. Litography and serigraphy.
27. Innovations in printing techniques and illustrated publishing.
The birth of photography and illustration, technical evolutions, new reproductive possibilities, new editorial lines.
28. Industrialization of the font in the 19th century.
29. Manifesto, birth and diffusion in Italy, in Europe and America.
30. The birth of children’s book. The comic.
31. Movimenti and avant-garde.
Morris and Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Secession, Expressionism.
Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Russian avant-garde. Bauhaus and modern design.
Pop art. Trends and protagonists in the 20th century.
32.-33. 20th century in Italy: Ratta and Bertieri; Scuola del Libro di Urbino; State Illustration. The book of art in the 20th century.
** Conclusions and new perspectives. From calam to press, from computer to digital. The figure of the graphic and editorial curator today.
Bibliography
Handouts available at the copy shop ‘Replay’. This compendium indicates the exact bibliography students need to study for the examination; for specific information about the texts contained therein, students should consult the Italian version of the program. Students are also advised to study certain concepts (ex. illustration, decoration, ornamentation) and authors mentioned in these texts (ex. Pollaiolo and Mantegna - graphic works - Schongauer, Dürer, Luca di Leida, Raimondi, Ugo da Carpi, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Bodoni) in more depth and detail by drawing on encyclopedia entries or art history manuals.
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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B. Ribaudo, S. Righetti (DISPENSA DISPONIBILE PRESSO LA COPISTERIA REPLAY) | Compendio e redazione degli appunti del corso di Storia dell’illustrazione del prof. Giorgio Fossaluzza |
Examination Methods
Final Exam: Written test
Written exam with five open-ended questions (4 hours long). There is also a short essay question on a topic chosen from among those listed in the Italian version of the program (see 'Modalità d'esame'). These topics refer to some of the additional information provided in lectures. Other topics selected by the student to be studied in more depth must be agreed-on before the written exam. The student will be able to attach the essay question to the written exam during the examination itself. In any case, students are required to present a short abstract they have written.
Furthermore, you can download on the web page some images (even with comments) previously analyzed in lessons. During the exam, recognition, typological and stylistic comment of these images are required.
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Assegnazione tutore
Lo studente può presentare domanda di assegnazione del tutore dell'elaborato finale una volta acquisiti almeno 135 CFU, con obbligo di aver superato gli esami di Lingua straniera 2, per entrambe le lingue di studio.
La presentazione della domanda verrà fatta tramite modulo da consegnare mediante servizio di Help desk.
Le prossime scadenze per l'inoltro della domanda sono:
- 20 aprile 2022 - assegnazione utile per la sessione di laurea autunnale (novembre 2022) o seguenti
- 26 settembre 2022 - assegnazione utile per la sessione di laurea invernale (marzo-aprile 2023) o seguenti
Per tutte le informazioni riguardanti la procedura di assegnazione tutore e per la compilazione della domanda si rimanda all'allegato "Norme relative alla procedura di assegnazione del tutore".
Si ricorda che la domanda di assegnazione tutore è VALIDA PER 1 ANNO al termine del quale è necessario presentare domanda di rinnovo o richiesta di nuova assegnazione
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Attività accreditate D/F
MODALITÀ DI VERBALIZZAZIONE ATTIVITÀ ACCREDITATE D/F
(delibera Collegio didattico Lingue e LL.SS del 8-11-2017)
Tutte le attività accreditate in Collegio Didattico verranno verbalizzate con firma digitale dal docente proponente.
Per ciascuna attività accreditata verrà aperto un UNICO APPELLO VERBALIZZANTE, la cui data coinciderà con quella di inizio dell’attività.
In linea di massima, la lista di verbalizzazione online sarà aperta 20 giorni prima dell’inizio dell’attività e si chiuderà il giorno precedente l'inizio dell’evento (ciclo di conferenze, convegno, etc.).
Si tratta di attività che vengono verbalizzate con un unico appello.
IMPORTANTE!
Lo studente si dovrà necessariamente iscrivere per ottenere la verbalizzazione dei CFU riconosciuti.
Lo studente che NON DOVESSE ISCRIVERSI ALL’APPELLO, una volta che questo risulterà chiuso, NON POTRÀ PIÙ OTTENERE I RELATIVI CFU, in quanto non verranno aperti ulteriori appelli per l’attività accreditata.
Lo studente dovrà altresì controllare se l’attività è accreditata per il corso di studi a cui è iscritto.
L'allegato, di seguito riportato, contiene l'elenco delle attività accreditate dai Collegi didattici e dal Consiglio di Dipartimento di Lingue e LL. SS., valide per l'attribuzione di CFU in tipologia D o F per gli studenti dell'area di Lingue e Letterature straniere.
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