HISTORY OF ART IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
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- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- FRANCESCA CAPPELLETTI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- ARCHEOLOGIA E ARTI
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/02
Training objectives
- Aim of the course is to enable the access of knowledge about artistic activities affecting Italian and Rome as main center of the cultural scene across 16th and 17th century. The purpose is to increase and to develop the ability of rebuilt the historical background behind the contemporary ideas about art history, related to the European geography and the interactions and movements of artists and their works of art. The course will train expert in cultural heritage studies, curatorial studies and art historical projects.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The contents of the course will investigate the amount of studies and recent exhibitions that underlined the must classicist, rich and triumphant of the Baroque in Rome. Part of the lessons will treats the big patrons, both papal than aristocratic regarding artist as Bernini and Pietro da Cortona to create masterpiece transfiguring palaces, churches and cities. A second group of lessons will interest the research around the quite new field of the birth of the artistic market and the painting intended as a real job. The fascination of naturalism, everyday life , lust and violence animating the street as well as ancient the roman ruins and the magnificent of the modern city with the whole of its parties along the year, impresses mainly foreign artists and bringing them to desire working in Rome. During the course will be examined through case studies the strategies and socio-cultural dynamics affecting the political and economic life strictly linked to the artistic expressions of the period.
Didactic methods
- Front lessons with projections of slides and powerpoint. Seminars of important international scholars.
Workshops about exhibitions planning and cultural itineraries Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination
Four question about about italian art history of the 16th and 17th century, regarding specific aspects of artists and works of art.
The examination will last 20 minutes. Reference texts
- TITLE OF THE COURSE:The myth of Bacchus in European painting of the seventeenth century
6 credits program
-The catalogue of the Exhibition "Il catalogo della mostra I Bassifondi del Barocco, Officina libraria, Milano 2014".
-two essays on 16th century paintings, whithin:
•Helen Langdon, Bari, Zingari e venditori ambulanti
•Patrizia Cavazzini, Verso il paesaggio puro
•Francesca Cappelletti, Il fascino del Nord. Paesaggio, mito e supporto lucente
12 credits program
- R. Longhi, Ultimi studi su Caravaggio e la sua cerchia
- G. Briganti, Introduzione ai Bamboccianti
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