The course aims to educate to knowledge and recognition of styles: artists' manners, the style of an artistic movements, of a period; underlining  differences and similarities, with their  exclusive and recurring characters, in order to let students became able at recognizing artists and their works, pursuing the course's aims with the help of every artistic language as  fundamental for a complete mastery of communication.

The Language of art forms considered as the content opens to understand the context and history that make it possible: recognizing artistic manners means knowing the development of art history from its most direct expression: the language of forms.

Such language, on the other hand, 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, which will be addressed by selecting works and themes, periods and currents, to locate twists and turns of artistic styles.

Lessons includes exercise in recognition and attribution of works of art, in particular through the comparison 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

Supporting activities: visits to museums, public and private collections, art exhibitions.

Teaching

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

Attendance

Attendance is strongly recommended as the unique way to a right study for the exams.

Course books

A Handbook of Art history from the Renaissance to the beginning of XXth , even among those used in high school, as, for example,

N. Frapiccini, N. Giustozzi, La geografia dell'arte, edizioni Ulrico Hoepli, Milano 2006, (with multiple reprints).

Reproductions of texts and images may be provided by the professor.

For attending students only selected parts of the handbook will be to study and it will be possible to choose an individual program selected between the handbook's matters.

Assessment

Oral examination

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

 Follow the not attending additional information and lists of texts.

Attendance

Follow the not attending additional information and lists of texts.

Course books

A Handbook of Art history from the Renaissance to the contemporary era, even among those used in high school, as, for example,

N. Frapiccini, N. Giustozzi, La geografia dell'arte, edizioni Ulrico Hoepli, Milano 2006, (with multiple reprints).

Reproductions of texts and images may be provided by the professor.

Non attending students are recommended to contact the professor in order to understand better how to study the handbook.

Assessment

Oral exam. Verification of learning will take place through an individual oral interview based on the reference texts for the exam, aimed at evaluating both the learning of the contents by the student and his / her ability to elaborate and argue.

It is possible to present a written paper on a theme agreed with the teacher.

They will give rise to evaluations of excellence: the possession by the student of good critical and in-depth skills; knowing how to connect the main issues addressed in the course; the use of an appropriate language with respect to the specificity of the discipline.

They will give rise to discrete evaluations: the possession by the student of a mnemonic knowledge of the contents; a relative critical and connecting capacity between the topics covered: the use of appropriate language.

They will give rise to sufficient assessments: the achievement of a minimal amount of knowledge on the topics covered by the student, even in the presence of some training gaps; the use of inappropriate language.

They will give rise to negative evaluations: difficulty in orienting the student with respect to the topics addressed in the exam texts; training gaps; the use of inappropriate 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.