HISTORY OF ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES AND GRAPHIC ARTS
STORIA DELLE TECNICHE ARTISTICHE E DELLE ARTI GRAFICHE
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| 2018/2019 | 12 |
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| Anna Cerboni Baiardi |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
French
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course will direct students to the knowledge of the history of the main artistic techniques through the analysis of some artifacts of great value, the main engraving techniques and the graphic production outcomes of artists active between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Program
The course is divided into three parts. In the first, dedicated to the history of design, we will look at materials, techniques and graphic typologies; the evolution of design in the activity of some artists (Pisanello, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, the Carracci, etc.); the consideration it reached in the artistic literature and with some big collectors.
In the second part, dedicated to the History of artistic techniques, we will analyze the development of techniques related to painting (wall, on wood, on canvas), sculpture (marble, bronze and wood) and some applied arts (tapestry, inlaid woodwork, ceramics, etc.), together with the sources discussing them. Considerable space will also be devoted to the main engraving techniques (woodcut, chiseling, etching) with the analysis of the most important prints of all time.
The third part, based on monographs and seminars, will focus on the theme: From drawing to engraving. The work of art between genesis and dissemination; with the intention to approach the study of the genesis of the artifacts through the graphic design, and their subsequent fortune, entrusted to the engraving techniques.
Classroom lectures will be supplemented by meetings with various specialists and by guided tours of art collections, especially of the local territory.
Teaching Material
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
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