The course aims to equip students with a sound knowledge of the most significant episodes occurred in the history of Italian art, from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth century, through the study and analysis of paintings and plastic and architecture works. The course also promotes visual literacy, further to recognizing the works of art students will learn to consider the role they played in the different contexts taken in exam from a social and cultural point of view.  

The most important works of art produced in Italy for public and private patrons, from early Renaissance to Baroque, will be studied through the reading and interpretation of images, documents and historiography sources.

Students must successfully pass a written preliminary test to be admitted to the oral exam.

Knowledge of the most significant episodes in the history of Italian art between XV and XVII century and ability to analyze and recognize the main paintings and plastic and architecture works of the period.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Identification exercises; study visits to public art collections.

Teaching

Lectures
Identification exercises
Lectures on specific topics by field experts

Attendance

Visit to the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

Course books

- G. Bora, G. Fiaccadori, A. Negri, A. Nova, I luoghi dell'arte, storia opere percorsi, Milano, Electa - Bruno Mondatori, 2003 (e ristampe successive), vol. 3 (capitoli 13/14/15), vol. 4 (capitoli 16/17/18/19)

PowerPoint presentations with the images studied during the course (the presentations will be available at the end of the course).

- For exam in english language:

Gloria Fossi, Mattia Reiche, Marco Bussagli, Italian Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture from the origin to the present day, Firenze, Giunti 2000, and later printings, pages from the first Florentine Renaissance to Baroque

M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth- Century Italy, Oxford, Oxfordo University Press, 1972, and later printings

P. Burke, The Italian Renaissance. Culture and Society in Italy, ed. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1999, and later printings

Assessment

Students must successfully pass a written preliminary test to be admitted to the oral exam.
Starting from the comment of the written test, candidates must demonstrate to know the most important Italian works of art (XV-XVII century) and to be able to contextualize them in the cultural and social context they were realized in, using a specific and appropriate language.
All students are invited to be present at the start of the exam session

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.