The course aims to achieve mastery in knowledges and methods for a high education degree in art history,  so to be able to be employed in teaching and in every possible application of the master's degree in art history.

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 and to be alble to understand the contexts.

Artists, schools and movements will be selected in the various historical-artistic junctions, identifying the styles, their formation and diffusion, the analogies and differences and the courses and recurrences also in large time spans. In particular between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The  course aims to educate at recognizing artistics' manners, underlining  differences and similarities, with their  exclusive and recurring characters, in order to let students became able at recognizing artists and their works.

The program aims to educate in reading images and will refer to comparisons between works and artists, trying to gradually reach an understanding of styles, starting from the most general topics to get to the individual historical-artistic moments, artists, works, movements .

The course will refer to examples spread over a broad chronology that includes the contemporary, obviously with an appropriate selection of nuclei of works and symptomatic themes of some historical-artistic developments and their anthropological reflections.

Particular attention will be paid to an emblematic phenomenon such as that of the spread of the Caravaggesque revolution in a provincial area that is rich in interference and turmoil: the Marches.

Development of the course program:

1. What is style in the work of art but also in its broader expressive reflections in the images.

2. Style of an era, style of a movement, style of an art school.

3. Masters and pupils.

4. Attribution's exercises. 

6. Caravaggesque painting in the Marche, works, artists, models, construction of a topic and an exhibition.

Historical-artistic disciplines' and culture area.

1. Knowledge and understanding: master's students must achieve specialized knowledge and understanding of the reading of images and the historical and contextual processes of their formation. They will have to reach the mastery of the basic knowledge related to the identification of works and artists in their time, school, territory, knowing how to evaluate quality and relationships, comparisons with similar and different works, finally reach a mature ability to read the works, characterizing the context .

Students acquire this knowledge through the attendance of lectures,  classroom exercises led by the teacher and through the study of the exam texts, as well as through participation in seminars and, if possible, visits to exhibitions and museums.

2. Apply knowledge and understanding: master's students must be able to apply the methodologies of historical-artistic study and to apply the knowledge and the ability to understand the processes of birth, growth and decline of historical-artistic phenomena, in their relationship with society and contexts, coming to read similarities and differences between different expressions of style and history of art in time and space.

Students acquire this knowledge by attending lectures, conducting classroom exercises led by the teacher and by studying the exam texts, as well as through participation in seminars and, if possible, visits to exhibitions and museums.

3. Judgment skills: master's students must achieve critical judgment skills on works, artists, movements, on their meanings and on the relationship with the public, as well as with the variation of taste that entails changes in the reception of works in different periods, with particular attention to the connection and to the changes linked to contemporaneity.

Students acquire these skills through classroom discussions with the teacher and colleagues during lessons, exercises and group work, and in preparing for the final exam.

4. Communication skills: students must possess written and oral communication skills in Italian, expression skills and competence in the use of the specialized language of the discipline.

Students acquire these skills by interacting in the classroom through questions, answers to the teacher's requests, exchanges with fellow students, making public presentations of exercises and group work, writing a report on the research work carried out in the field of the course, seminars, final exam.

5. Learning skills: The student will have to show an understanding of the concepts and will have to provide examples based on the models learned, in recognizing and comparing the works, be able to identify the geographical area, chronology and quality of the works even at a first reading of they, in addition to connote those studied with further comparisons and historical-critical evaluations also in view of further studies. The student will have to acquire a mature historical-philological profile.

Students acquire these skills through classroom discussion, comparison with classmates during lessons and exercises, argumentation of the answers to the teacher's questions during lessons, presentation of group work and during the exam.

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. Meetings with external scholars.

Teaching

Lectures (front lessons) always with images projections.

Attendance

Attendance is strongly recommended as unique way to prepare the exam.

Course books

- La luce e i silenzi. Orazio Gentileschi e la pittura caravaggesca nelle Marche del Seicento, exhibition catalogue (Fabriano 2019), Ancona, Il Lavoro editoriale 2019, edited by A.M. Ambrosini  Massari, A. Delpriori. It will be possible to follow a custom path for the exam and select parts of the basic text.

- Materials, power points and texts will be available on the blended platform and will be an integral part of the exam.

Assessment

Oral examination. 

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.

Attendance

Follow the not attending additional information and lists of texts.

Course books

- La luce e i silenzi. Orazio Gentileschi e la pittura caravaggesca nelle Marche del Seicento, exhibition catalogue (Fabriano 2019), Ancona, Il Lavoro editoriale 2019, edited by A.M. Ambrosini  Massari, A. Delpriori. 

- Materials, power points and texts will be available on the blended platform and will be an integral part of the exam.

Assessment

Oral examination. 

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.