ICONOLOGY AND ICONOGRAPHY (B)
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- SALVATORE GERUZZI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/02
Training objectives
- The educational goal is to teach an understanding of the eventual relationships between sources and images, of their chronological and stylistic ambient and the capacity to describe and identify subjects through a correct use of the methodology.
Prerequisites
- ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
None. Course programme
- The course intends to compare four different interpretations of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and "Spring" with the aim of showing how images can be interpreted, giving them a 'meaning', only on the basis of of primary sources. But even this hermeneutical passage presents difficulties that turn out to be of great interest on the methodological level.
Didactic methods
- TEACHING METHODS
1. Teacher-led lessons in class and in museums.
2. Reading of texts.
3. Analysis and interpretation of images. Learning assessment procedures
- FINAL TEST
The final test will consist of an oral exam which will assess the knowledge and understanding of the subjects discussed during the course and of the reference texts. Critical skills and the ability to discuss the problems will be assessed. Reference texts
- A. WARBURG, La “Nascita di Venere” e la “Primavera” di Sandro Botticelli. Ricerche sull’immagine dell’antichità nel primo Rinascimento italiano [1893], in ID., La rinascita del paganesimo antico, a cura di G. Bing, trad. it., Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1966, pp. 1-58 (comprese le relative immagini fuori testo).
E. H. GOMBRICH, Mitologie botticelliane. Uno studio sul simbolismo neoplatonico della cerchia del Botticelli [1945, con modifiche], in ID., Immagini simboliche. Studi sull’arte del Rinascimento [1972], trad. it., Torino, Einaudi, 1978, pp. 47-116 (comprese le immagini).
H. BREDEKAMP, Botticelli. La Primavera [1988], trad. it., Modena, Panini, 1996 (comprese le immagini).
C. VILLA, Per una lettura della «Primavera». Mercurio «retrogrado» e la Retorica nella bottega di Botticelli, «Strumenti critici», LXXXVI, 1998, pp. 1-28.
