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History of Modern Art
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course intends to highlight, in a first phase, the distinctive features of Italian art between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, in relation to the definition of regional schools, to then focus on the moment of transition, between the 16th and 17th century, from the mannerist style to the naturalistic and baroque style, along the Rome-Naples axis. The aim is to provide students with specific knowledge and to encourage an initial contact with art-historical research, analysing in particular the relationship between the style of the works and the bibliographical and archival sources referring to them. At the end of the course, the student should be able to demonstrate an awareness of the critical process through which the art historian arrives at the formulation of his interpretative theses.
CAPABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
During the assessment, the student must be able to analyse works of art in their formal, iconographic, typological and technical-material peculiarities, demonstrating to be able to place them in the spatial-temporal dimension of the artist who created them and to be able to trace them back to their linguistic specificities, considered in their connections with national and international culture and historiographical debate.
FURTHER EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgement
The candidate's capacity for autonomous critical processing and problematic questioning of works of art will be particularly appreciated, also in relation to historiographic tradition and possible interdisciplinary connections.
Communicative skills
The ability to construct autonomous and innovative exhibition paths will be particularly appreciated, also on the basis of materials and interpretative proposals selected and elaborated by the student on the basis of personal training experiences, in a constant interdisciplinary relationship with the teachings imparted in the course of study.
Learning ability: From the point of view of learning ability, the expected results will concern the ability to construct innovative relationships, historically and critically grounded, between figurative text, primary sources and secondary literature.
Course Prerequisites
A good knowledge of European history from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
There are no propedeuticies.
Teaching Methods
The course envisages frontal lessons in Italian in the classroom constantly based on the analysis of figurative texts through the projection of slides and, in parallel, an active involvement of the student in seminar-style presentations of specific topics covered in the course. Visits to churches and museums will also be an integral part of the course, in order to verify, through direct contact with the works, the topics dealt with in the classroom and to encourage the student, also autonomously, to a direct and concrete approach with the artefacts and artistic contexts.
Assessment Methods
The final examination will be exclusively oral and in Italian. The examination will be aimed at ascertaining
1. the level of knowledge of the course contents (for those attending) and of the reference bibliography (for all);
2. the ability to apply the knowledge acquired to texts not analysed during the course;
3. the ability to use technical terminology correctly.
The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieths: excellent (30 and praise/ 30) excellent (29-27) good (26-23) sufficient (22-18) insufficient (< 18).
The evaluation will result from the average of the evaluations defined according to the following criteria:
1. consistency of presentation
2. completeness of information
3. correct use of specialist terminology
4. ability to apply analysis procedures.
Texts
L. Colombo, A. Dionisio, N. Onida, G. Savarese, Opera. Arte e patrimonio nel territorio, edizione blu, vol. I (Dalla preistoria al gotico) Milano, Rizzoli, 2019, pp. 298-333.
L. Colombo, A. Dionisio, N. Onida, G. Savarese, Opera. Arte e patrimonio nel territorio, edizione blu, vol. II (Dal tardogotico al rococò), Milano, Rizzoli, 2019.
L. Bellosi, La rappresentazione dello spazio, in Storia dell’arte italiana, IV, Torino, Einaudi, 1980, pp. 3-39.
R. Wittkower, Arte e architettura in Italia. 1600-1750, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
Additional bibliographies will be provided at the end of the course.
The slides used during the lectures will also be made available at the end of the course.
Contents
COURSE TITLE
Italian art and the concept of Baroque.
TOPICS
1 Italian art and the problem of representing space.
2 Fundamental lines of the history of Italian art, from Giotto to Caravaggio.
3 Baroque art in Naples and its relations with Italy and Europe.
Course Language
Italian.