The course aims to provide an outline of the history of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy and Europe, with particular reference to the most important artistic events in Florence, Rome and Venice. The the most eminent artistic personalities of the four centuries will be analyzed and will also be provided the tools for critical reading of the most significant works of art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Deep knowledge of the following textbook on the History of Art from the fifteenth to the whole eighteenth century
-S. Settis, M. Montanari,
Arte. Una storia naturale e civile. 3. Dal Quattrocento alla Controriforma, Einaudi Scuola, 2019 (PER INTERO)
-S. Settis, M. Montanari,
4. Dal Barocco all'Impressionismo, Einaudi Scuola, 2019 (fino alla pagina 291);
In addition is requested the reading of
-M. Baxandall, Pittura ed esperienze sociali nell’Italia del Quattrocento, Torino Einaudi;
--J. Shearman, Arte e Spettatore nel Riascimento Italiano, Milano 2008;
-T. Montanari, Il Barocco, Torino 2012.
It is also required to visit at least three of the following museums and religious buildings:
-Galleria degli Uffizi;
-Galleria Palatina di Palazzo Pitti;
-Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Firenze;
-Museo di San Marco;
-Museo Nazionale del Bargello;
-Basilica di Santa Maria Novella;
-Basilica di San Lorenzo;
-Chiesa del Carmine e cappella Brancacci.
Knowledge of the slides illustrated in class is required.
Learning Objectives - Last names A-L
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Learning Objectives - Last names M-Z
The aim of the course is to provide methodological tools for the understanding and studying the diffusion of Italian Renaissance and Baroque figurative culture, with particular attention to the works of painting, sculpture and architecture produced in the main Italian cities (Venice, Genua, Florence, Rome, Naples) and their reception. The course will also examine aspects related to the patronage and the changing taste of collecting. One of the main purposes of the course will be to provide the tools also to allow the student to perform a formal reading of the works of art.
Prerequisites - Last names A-L
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Prerequisites - Last names M-Z
Interest in art history and basic knowledge of the most important italian artists of the Renaissance a Baroque period. Basic knowledge of English.
Teaching Methods - Last names A-L
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Teaching Methods - Last names M-Z
Lectures in class with presentation of images and reading of critical texts. We will also make visits to museum and monuments in Florence, and to exhibitions on show during the term time.
Further information - Last names A-L
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Further information - Last names M-Z
It will be necessary to acquire familiarity and knowledge of the works and biographical events of the following artists: Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veneziano, Donatello, Verrocchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Cosmè Tura, Antonello da Messina, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Correggio, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernardino Luini, Bramantino, Parmigianino, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Bronzino, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Caravaggeschi, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Francesco Albani, Giovanni Lanfranco, Pietro da Cortona, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Andrea Sacchi, Alessandro Algardi, François Duquesnoy, Guercino, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jusepe de Ribera, Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto, Antonio Canova, Jacques Louis David.
Type of Assessment - Last names A-L
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Type of Assessment - Last names M-Z
Oral examination. The discussion will start by identification of the works discussed in class, illustrated in the texts in the program or analyzed during visits offsite. It will also be required the contextualization of the works, the biography of the most important artists and the knowledge of the most significant critical texts from Vasari to Bellori. A question also will focus on the texts required for reading (Baxandall, Shearman, Montanari) and visits to museums and church buildings that students must have taken personally.
Course program - Last names A-L
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Course program - Last names M-Z
During the course we will analyze the most important events of the history of Italian art from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, starting from the Competition of 1401 in Florence won by Lorenzo Ghiberti, to the interventions of Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican, and to the most relevant projects designed by Bernini in Rome and the neo-classic sculpture of Canova. The formal readings of the works of art will also be accompanied by reading and commenting on the main critical texts from Vasari to Bellori.