20709162 - HISTORY OF MODERN ART: METHODS AND TOOLS

The general purpose of the course is to provide students of the three-year degree, at the beginning of the training course in art history, the tools for the study of the history of modern art, and in particular to give way to acquire the practice of stylistic analysis and the awareness of its historical-critical implications through lectures, exercises, seminars, visits to churches and museums.
The course focuses on one of the essential tools of the history of art, the reading of style: collective reading exercises will be accompanied by an analysis of the centrality of reflection on style in the history of European art from the 15th to the 18th century.
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Programma

The general aim of the course is to provide students with the tools for studying the history of modern art, through classrom lectures and exercises to churches and museums, enabling them to acquire the practice of stylistic analysis and an awareness of its historical-critical implications.
The course focuses on one of the essential tools of art history, the analysis of style: collective reading exercises will be accompanied by an analysis of the centrality of reflection on style in the history of European art from the 15th to the 18th century.

Visits to churches and museums in Rome are planned.

Testi Adottati

- L. Bellosi, Buffalmacco e il Trionfo della morte, [1° edizione Torino Einaudi 1974], ristampa Milano 5 Continents 2003

- F. Zeri, Rivedendo Piero di Cosimo, [1° edizione in “Paragone” 1959], ristampato in F. Zeri, Giorno per giorno nella pittura. Scritti sull’arte toscana dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, Torino Allemandi 1991, pp. 175-182

- G. Previtali, voce Attribuzione, in Arte/2, Enciclopedia Feltrinelli Fischer, Milano 1971, 1, pp. 56-60, consultabile on line:
https://www.storiedellarte.com/2012/07/sullattribuzione-il-messaggio-di-previtali.html

- E. Castelnuovo, voce Attribution, in Encyclopaedia universalis, II, Paris 1980 (ed. or. Paris 1968), pp. 780-783 consultabile on line:
https://www.storiedellarte.com/2012/08/sullattribuzione-la-storia-di-castelnuovo.html


S. Settis-T. Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, Milano Einaudi Scuola (Volume 3 Dal Quattrocento alla Controriforma; • Volume 4 Dal Barocco all'Impressionismo) for the 15th-18th centuries.


Modalità Frequenza

Attendance is highly recommended but not mandatory.

Modalità Valutazione

The written test will be an on-going assessment consisting of a written analysis of a reproduction (image) of a work of art. The oral test will consist of questions on the texts indicated in the bibliography.