- Docente: Fabrizio Lollini
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-ART/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
The classes will try to offer a general approach to history of
medieval art from 5th to 15th century. Students are hoped to
acquire on one side the abilities which are necessary for the
knowledge of the artistic production of the period - attribution,
and skill in the "readind" of the work - and on the other a
conscious methodology. The last lessons will offer a more specific
topic, as a research example.
Course contents
The course can be taken by the students of the different
curricula. The lessons will take place in the first semester, and
will be divided in two parts (30+30 hours). The first section (A)
will examine general problems connected with the subject, so to
offer a help to organize better the personal study. It will based
on two different topics. On one side we will face some
methodological problems: the chronological definition of "Middle
Age"; the difference between historical geography and
art-historical geography; the materials; the relationships with
Antiquity; the workshops of Medieval artists; and so on. On the
other side we will consider the most important aspects of the
artistic stream in Middle Age, from a more chronological point of
view. The second section (B) will offer a more specific example of
research; the title for this academic year will be "Medieval Art
and Contemporary Art/Medieval Art in Contemporary Art".
I - Students must know the basic facts of art history in Italy from
Late Antiquity to the last decade of XV century. The text book(s)
can be chosen by the student from the handbooks ("manuali") in use
in Italy, covering the period above mentioned; there is not one
specific compulsory text.
II - Students are expected to read one of the following texts (or
group of texts), here quoted in the italian editions: a – three
studies from the volumes Arte e storia nel Medioevo, Torino 2002-05
b – J.J.G. Alexander, I miniatori medioevali e il loro metodo di
lavoro, Modena 2004 c – M. Baxandall, Pittura ed esperienze sociali
nell'Italia del Quattrocento, ed. it. Torino 1978 and later ed. d –
M. Baxandall, Giotto e gli umanisti, ed. it. Milano 1994 e – M.
Baxandall, Forme dell'intenzione, ed. it. Torino 2000 f – E.
Castelnuovo (curator), Artifex bonus. Il mondo dell'artista
medioevale, Bari 2004 g – H. Focillon, Vita delle forme, ed. it.
Torino 1990 and previous ed. h – C. Ginzburg, Indagini su Piero,
ed. Torino 1994 (only THIS edition) i – E. Panofsky, La prospettiva
come “forma simbolica” e altri scritti, ed. it. Milano 1961 and
later ed. l – E. Panofsky, Rinascimento e rinascenze nell'arte
occidentale, ed. it. Milano 1971 and later ed. m – O. Pächt, La
miniatura medioevale, ed. it. Torino 1987 n – J. Von
Schlosser-Magnino, L'arte del Medioevo, ed. it. Torino 1989 n – A.
Warburg, La rinascita del paganesimo antico, ed. it. Firenze 1966
and later ed. o – R. Wittkower, La scultura, ed. it. Torino
1985.
III - Students must study one book for the second section (B),
dedicated to the more specific topic of the relationships between
Medieval and Contemporary Art. See here 'testi'.
IV - Students are also invited to know directly - that is, not
through books or the net but FROM LIFE - at least one Medieval
artwork: a church, a palace, a painting, a sculpture.
For more detailed infos about the lessons and the texts, and for
all the problems connected with the different "value" of the course
(12, 10, 6 or 5 credits) or with the system of assessment methods,
you can contact the teacher by mail or in office hours. Erasmus and
Overseas students can anyway obtain a personal bibliography, with a
reduced (and-or different) list of texts; both 5-6 and 10-12
credits foreign students can substitute one of the parts II and III
of the program with a personal research, to be discussed during the
exam.
Readings/Bibliography
See in the section 'programma'. Erasmus and Overseas students must
read for the III section of the exam either another one of the
books listed for II, or one of the readings listed below:
Testi/Bibliografia: Cfr. nella sezione relativa al "programma". La
lista dei testi tra cui scegliere le letture del punto III, è la
seguente:
- O. Mazzei, Alfonso Rubbiani. La maschera e il volto della
città. Bologna 1879-1913; presentazione di F. Solmi;
introduzione di M. Dezzi Bardeschi, Bologna 1979
- Viollet le Duc, catalogo della mostra (Galeries
nationales du Grand Palais, 19 fevrier-5 mai 1980), Paris
1980
- Viollet-le-Duc e il restauro degli edifici in Francia,
catalogo della mostra (Torino 1981), Milano 1981
- Alfonso Rubbiani. I veri e i falsi storici, catalogo
della mostra (Bologna, febbraio-marzo 1981), a cura di F. Solmi e
M. Dezzi Bardeschi, Bologna 1981 (i saggi e una scelta di
schede)
- Alfonso Rubbiani e la cultura del restauro nel suo tempo
(1880-1915), atti delle Giornate di studio su Alfonso Rubbiani
e la cultura del restauro nel suo tempo (1880-1925), Bologna, 12-14
novembre 1981, a cura di L. Bertelli e O. Mazzei, Milano 1986 (due
saggi a scelta)
- Aemilia ars, 1898-1903. Arts & crafts a Bologna,
catalogo della mostra (Bologna, Collezioni comunali d'arte, 9
marzo-6 maggio 2001), a cura di C. Bernardini, D. Davanzo Poli, O.
Ghetti Baldi, Milano 2001
- Miti e segni del Medioevo nella citta e nel territorio: dal
mito bolognese di re Enzo ai castelli neomedievali in
Emilia-Romagna, a cura di M.G. Muzzarelli, Bologna 2001
- Arti e storia nel Medioevo, IV, Il Medioevo al passato e al
presente, a cura di E. Castelnuovo e G. Sergi, Torino 2004
(quattro saggi a scelta)
- Neomedievalismi: recuperi, evocazioni, invenzioni nelle città
dell'Emilia-Romagna, a cura di M.G. Muzzarelli, Bologna,
2007
- L. Patetta, L'architettura dell'eclettismo. Fonti, teorie,
modelli 1750-1900, Milano 1975 (ried. Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna
2007)
- Carducci e Bologna, a cura di G. Fasoli e M. Saccenti,
Bologna 1985; da leggere assieme a V. Roncuzzi e S. Saccone,
Carducci e il recupero della Bologna medievale,
“L'Archiginnasio”, n. 102, 2007, pp. 272-329
- A. Demurger, Vita e morte dell'Ordine dei Templari,
Milano 1987
- M. Barber, La storia dei Templari, Casale Monferrato
1997
- G. Bordonove, La vita quotidiana dei templari nel XIII
secolo, Milano 1997
- R. Curzi, La pittura dei Templari, Milano 2002
- B. Frale, I Templari, Bologna 2004
- F. Cardini, Templari e templarismo, Rimini 2005
- da "Opus incertum", 6-7, 2011, i saggi di F. Lollini su
Sant'Antonio di Padova a Bologna e di D. Guernelli sulla miniatura
di revival
- F. Lollini, "Modelli dell'intenzione". Strategie della
produzione e dalla percezione: per un confronto tra la pittura
medievale e il wall painting contemporaneo, in Do the right
wall / Fa' il muro giusto, a cura di F. Naldi, Bologna
2010
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons. For the general section (I), some workshops and
outdoor visits in museums and monuments will be also
scheduled.
Assessment methods
Written test for (I), oral exam for (II), (III) and (IV) - see here
"course contents". Students coming from other countries, and/or not
of Italian mother-tongue (Erasmus, Overseas, and other exchanges)
CAN (not MUST), and also, as already mentioned, italian students
from the Facoltà di Lingue (only if their exam is valid for 3
credits) have an oral exam for all the sections.
Teaching tools
Slide projection or ppt during lessons.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizio Lollini