HISTORY OF MODERN ART I
STORIA DELL'ARTE MODERNA I
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2023/2024 | 6 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Cecilia Prete | every Tuesday and by appointment via email (at Palazzo Albani, via Bramante 17) |
Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
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 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. In particular, the aim will be to promote the knowledge of fundamental themes of history of Italian Art : the first Florentine Renaissance ; the centers of the Renaissance and the culture of the Italian courts ; the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance : Leonardo , Michelangelo , Raphael , between Florence and Rome ; the Venetian Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini , Giorgione , Titian , Tintoretto , Veronese ; the season of the Mannerism and the painting of the Counter reformation; the renewal of art in Seicento : Carracci and carracceschi painters , Caravaggio and his followers ; Roman Baroque: Bernini , Borromini , Pietro da Cortona ; other centers of the Baroque in Italy
Program
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.The program includes the followings topics: the first Florentine Renaissance ; the centers of the Renaissance and the culture of the Italian courts ; the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance : Leonardo , Michelangelo , Raphael , between Florence and Rome ; the Venetian Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini , Giorgione , Titian , Tintoretto , Veronese ; the season of the Mannerism and the painting of the Counter reformation; the renewal of art in Seicento : Carracci and carracceschi painters , Caravaggio and his followers ; Roman Baroque: Bernini , Borromini , Pietro da Cortona ; other centers of the Baroque in Italy.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and comprehension ability
Knowledge and comprehension of the several aspects pertaining to the most important episodes of Italian History of Art from the XV to the XVII century.
Knowledge, comprehension and identification of the painting, sculpture and architectonic works of art from the beginning of the XV to the end of the XVII century.
Applied knowledge and applied comprehension ability
Knowledge and comprehension of the paramount concepts illustrated during the course and of the figurative episodes presented. Ability to elaborate and discuss the knowledge pertaining to Italian History of Art and the cultural context which determines its course during the XV, XVI and XVII century.
Judgment autonomy
Ability to identify research tools and methods relevant to the contents of the course referring to historiographical sources.
Ability to advance topics liable to further research and to carry research activities relevant to the course.
Communication skills
Ability to interpret the contents and the results of the course.
Ability to illustrate the contents illustrated during the course using a suitable terminology.
Learning skills
Ability to evaluate the artistic context presented during the course in a critical and autonomous way.
Trace and find historiographical and bibliographic sources needed to deepen studies and carry research.
Use the research tools chosen in a correct way from a methodological point of view.
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
Supporting Activities
no support activities are foreseen
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures
Identification exercises
Lectures on specific topics by field expertsStudy visits to public art collections
- Attendance
Students who want to take the exam as attending students are invited to participate in study visits and the lectures by field experts, and visit the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche.
- Course books
- S. Settis, T. Montanari, Arte, una storia naturale e civile, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 2019, volumes from Florentine Renaissance (sec. XIV) to sec. XVII.
- E. Passignat, Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte, Roma, Carocci editore, 2017, pp. 23- 48; 157-224.
- PowerPoint presentations with the images studied during the course (the presentations will be available at the end of the course and can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it).
- Assessment
Learning outcomes will be evaluated by an oral exam aiming at determining the understanding capabilities of the concepts discussed during the course and the ability to summarize and coordinate the answers, demonstrating to be endowed with appropriate expressive and communication abilities and the acquaintance with an adequate language. Evaluation criteria are based on a 4-level scale and will take into account the knowledge command degree, the answers articulation level, language suitability, critical and to-argue abilities. The exam grade will be expressed with a scale out of thirty (18/30).
Students are kindly requested to attend the opening 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
individual study
- Attendance
Students who intend to be considered attending are required to attend at least 26 hours of lessons
- Course books
- S. Settis, T. Montanari, Arte, una storia naturale e civile, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 2019, volumes from Florentine Renaissance (sec. XIV) to sec. XVII.
- E. Passignat, Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell'arte, Roma, Carocci editore, 2017, pp. 23- 48; 157-224.
- Another text from the following: A. Chastel, I centri del Rinascimento. Arte italiana 1460-1500, Milano, R.C.S. Libri, 1965 or T. Montanari, Il Barocco, Torino, Einaudi, 2012.
- PowerPoint presentations with the images studied during the course (the presentations will be available at the end of the course and can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it).
- Assessment
Learning outcomes will be evaluated by an oral exam aiming at determining the understanding capabilities of the concepts discussed during the course and the ability to summarize and coordinate the answers, demonstrating to be endowed with appropriate expressive and communication abilities and the acquaintance with an adequate language. Evaluation criteria are based on a 4-level scale and will take into account the knowledge command degree, the answers articulation level, language suitability, critical and to-argue abilities. The exam grade will be expressed with a scale out of thirty (18/30).
Students are kindly requested to attend the opening 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.
Notes
Lectures in italian language. Previously students wishing to take exam in English have to contact the professor
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