The course aims to educate the knowledge and recognition of styles and artists, art movements, their exclusive and recurring characters. Students will  become able at recognizing artists and works, pursuing the course's aims with the help of every artistic language as  fundamental for a complete mastery of communication.

The analysis of the elements of artistic expression is an introduction to history of art and  it is also the main connection of art as a historical sequence with the much more complex world and broadened contemporary production: design, fashion, advertising and media expression.

The course is organized by referring to basic manuals of history of art,  providing a wider selection of images on which students will exercise analysis and comparisons needed. 

Lessons includes exercises in analysis and interpretation, in particular through comparisons between works of an artist, more than an artist, various artists from different cultural areas and so on.

The course will reference a history ranging from the dawn of the Renaissance to contemporary, obviously with an appropriate selection of works and themes of historical and artistic developments and anthropological symptomatic.

Visiting Museums and meetings with external scholars within the course itself

Students will demonstrate mastery of basic knowledge concerning the identification of works of art and artists in their time, school, territory, knowing how to evaluate quality, comparisons with similar and different works, in order to reach a mature ability to read works and their contexts

Students will demonstrate an understanding of problems and will provide examples based on the models learned to recognize and compare the works, they should be able to identify places, history and quality of the works even at a first reading of them and in addition they should be able to give a huge historical and critical interpretation.

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

Teaching

Lectures (front lessons) with projections and visits to museums.

Attendance

It will be a compulsory attendance 50% of the lesson time.

Course books

Sciolla G.C., Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Torino, UTET (2001) 2008.

Texts and images may be provided by the professor.

Assessment

The exam will be held through an individual interview based on textbooks suggested. The aim is to evaluate both student's comprehension of the content and his ability in reworking concepts and in argumenting. It is possibile to present a written document on a topic agreed with the teacher. 

Excellent grades will be given in presence of: a good critical perspective and in depth study; knowing how to link among them the main subjects addressed during the course; the use of an appropriate language.

Good grades will be given in presence of: good mnemonic knowledge of the contents; a relatively good critical perspective and connection skills related to the treated topics; the use of appropriate language.

Sufficient grades will be given in presence of: the achievement of a minimal knowledge on the treated themes, even in presence of some gaps; the use of a not appropriate language.

Negative grades will be given in presence of: a difficult orientation related to the the treated topics; knowledge gaps; the use of a not appropriate language.

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.

Teaching

Study of the exam books. Texts and images provided by the professor.

Course books

G.C. Sciolla, Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Torino, UTET (2001) 2008.

Texts and images provided by the professor.

A. Pinelli, La storia dell'arte istruzioni per l'uso,  Bari, Laterza 2009, pp. 3-34; 69-131.

Assessment

The exam will be held through an individual interview based on textbooks suggested. The aim is to evaluate both student's comprehension of the content and his ability in reworking concepts and in argumenting. It is possibile to present a written document on a topic agreed with the teacher. 

Excellent grades will be given in presence of: a good critical perspective and in depth study; knowing how to link among them the main subjects addressed during the course; the use of an appropriate language.

Good grades will be given in presence of: good mnemonic knowledge of the contents; a relatively good critical perspective and connection skills related to the treated topics; the use of appropriate language.

Sufficient grades will be given in presence of: the achievement of a minimal knowledge on the treated themes, even in presence of some gaps; the use of a not appropriate language.

Negative grades will be given in presence of: a difficult orientation related to the the treated topics; knowledge gaps; the use of a not appropriate language.

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.

For part-time students attendance of the lectures is not mandatory. Students who will not attend at least the 50% of the lectures will have to contact the teacher.