- Docente: Barbara Ghelfi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ARTE-01/B
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Theories and Techniques for the Study of Works of Art (cod. 6251)
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from Mar 24, 2027 to Apr 23, 2027
Learning outcomes
This course aims to provide a methodology for understanding modern artworks, with particular attention to the material characteristics of the objects and their possible functions in their original historical, religious or cultural contexts. Upon completion of the course, students will acquire the tools to identify the cultural origin of an object, situate it within its historical context, and will recognize issues related to its contemporary conditions.
Course contents
The other half of the Baroque. Women painters at European Courts between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
The course aims to investigate the social history and artistic production of women artists in Europe between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries - from Artemisia Gentileschi and Elisabetta Sirani to Rosalba Carriera and Angelika Kauffmann - by adopting the courtly sphere as a privileged site of enquiry. The course will examine the complex strategies through which women painters negotiated their professional and economic autonomy within the hierarchical structures of the Ancien Régime, focusing in particular on recruitment practices, artistic specialisations, the organisation of workshops and forms of remuneration.
Readings/Bibliography
M.C. Terzaghi, Artemisia Gentileschi a Londra, in Artemisia Gentileschi e il suo tempo, a cura di F. Baldassari e M. De Ruggieri, Milano, Skira 2016, pp. 69-77.
R. Morselli, Professione pittore. Il caso Bologna tra Cinque e Seicento, Venezia, Marsilio Editori 2022, pp. 142-154.
C. Strunck, T. Jones, Female Court Artists: Women’s Career Strategies in the Courts of the Early Modern Period, in Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 35-70.
A. Oberer, Rosalba Carriera e le sue sorelle, Firenze, Mauro Pagliai 2014.
B. Sani, 1730: il viaggio di Rosalba Carriera a Vienna. Uno sguardo agli intermediari e a Guglielmina Amalia di Brunswick-Lüneburg, imperatrice vedova, in Patrons, intermediaries, Venetian artists in Vienna & imperial domains (1650-1750), a cura di Enrico Lucchese e Matej Klemenčič, Firenze, Polistampa, 2022, pp. 111-123, 213-217.
P. Hunting, My dearest heart: the artist Mary Beale (1633-1699), Lewes, Unicorn, 2024.
S. Biancani, Il Grand Tour e le artiste: Angelika Kauffmann e Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun a Bologna, in Crocevia e capitale della migrazione artistica, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2013, pp. 471-485.
I. Miarelli Mariani, Artiste a Roma tra XVIII e XIX secolo, in Roma Pittrice. Artiste al lavoro tra XVI e XIX secolo, a cura di Ilaria Miarelli Mariani e Raffaella Morselli, Roma, Officina libraria 2024, pp. 32-47.
Teaching methods
The course will consist of lectures (enriched by Power Point displays, download AMS Campus- Alma DL).
Attending lectures is highly recommended. Non-attending students will find the contents of the lectures in the recommended readings and bibliography.
Assessment methods
The final exam consists of an oral test.
During the oral examination, students must demonstrate to have acquired a critical understanding of the topics discussed during the course and a critical knowledge of the recommended bibliography.
In particular:
1. Those students who show developed analytical skills of selected readings and their correct contextualization within a complete vision of the issues discussed during lectures will be given a mark of excellence. Mastering of field-specific language and good expression during the examination will also be required (A =28-30 con lode).
2. Those students who show mnemonic knowledge of the subject and a superficial analysis of selected readings, as well as a correct but not always appropriate mastering of the field-specific language will be given a satisfactory mark (B = 25-27 and C = 23-24).
3. Those students who will show vague knowledge and superficial understanding of selected readings, limited analytical skills and a not always appropriate expression will be given a ‘pass’ mark roughly (D = 18-22).
4. Those students who show gaps in their knowledge and lack of familiarity with selected readings will not be given a ‘pass’ mark (E).
Who cannot attend classes must agree an alternative program with the teacher.
Teaching tools
Lectures with digital slides.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities:
Please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Office hours
See the website of Barbara Ghelfi