85117 - HISTORY OF ARTS IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ITALY (1) (LM)

Anno Accademico 2018/2019

  • Docente: Fabrizio Lollini
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: L-ART/02
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Italiano
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Italianistica, culture letterarie europee, scienze linguistiche (cod. 9220)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course, students will be able to develop a general vision of the history of Medieval and Renaissance art. On one hand, students will know how to use the skills necessary to become familiar with the artistic production of the period, and on the other, they will be able to analyse some of the main works of the history of Medieval and Renaissance art using specific methodologies, and relate these to one another appropriately.

Contenuti

Classes will be divided in three sections. The first one (I) will introduce students to the different approaches to a work of art (style, iconography, embodiment), and will discuss the most important metohodological issues about them. The second (II) will offer, in chronological order, the main lines of Italian artistic history between the beginning of Middle Age and middle XVI century: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, 'Barbaric' Art, the medieval revivals (Carolingian and Othonian), Romanesque Art, Gothic Art, the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance. The third one (III) will consider a specific topic, which this year will be "Bentivoglio Art in Bologna 1450-1506".

Testi/Bibliografia

(I) together with their personal notes students must carefully read and study one of the following texts: E. Panofsky, Perspective as symbolic form; E. Panofsky, Studies in Iconology; E. Panofksy, Meaning in the Visual Arts; E. Panofsky, Renascences and Renaissance; M. Baxandall, Painting and Social Expreriences in 15th century Italy; M. Baxandall, Giotto and the Orators; M. Baxandall, Patterns of Intention. Each book can be studied in one of their different editions, and both in Italian or in English, as you prefer. Students who will not attend classes will choose two books.

(II) personal notes from the lessons. Students are strongly encouraged to read ONLY THE SECTIONS CHRONOLOGICALLY CONNECTED WITH OUR CONTENTS in a general survey of the artistic period we will consider (the so-called 'manuale'). I can suggest two possible titles, one in English (H. Gardner, R. Tansey, F. Kleiner, Art through the Ages, in different editions) and one in Italian (P.L. De Vecchi, E. Cerchiari, Arte nel tempo, also in different editions). Students who will not attend classes are requested to read it.

(III) together with their personal notes from the lessons, students must read G. Clarke, Giovanni II Bentivoglio and the uses of chivalry: towards the creation of a 'republican court' in fifteenth century Bologna, in Artistic exchange and cultural translation in the Italian Renaissance city, Cambridge University Press 2004, pp. 162-186, and D. Drogin, Bologna's Bentivoglio family and its artists, in Artists at court. Image-making and identity 1300-1500, University of Chicago Press 2004, pp. 72-90. Students who will not attend classes are asked to write a short paper (5 to 7 pages, no footnotes, at least three bibliographical entries) about a subject of their choice, to be presented at least two weeks before the day of the exam.

Metodi didattici

Lectures. In addition to the general syllabus, seminars and / or visit outdoors by the teacher and his collaborators are also planned.


Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Oral examination for all the points I, II and III of the syllabus (see the relevant section above).

The interview will be based on specific questions about the bibliography and the topics discussed during the lessons for points I and III, and on the stylistic identification and analysis of three images of works of art of the period object of classes (not necessarily already shown in a lesson) for point II. 

It will be assessed as excellent the performance of the students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, originality of reflection and familiarity with Medieval and Renaissance Art. It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, disarticulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, or a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of Medieval and Renaissance Art. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Art. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyse Medieval and Renaissance Art.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Projection of images (powerpoints) during lectures.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Fabrizio Lollini