HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM352

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Disciplinary Sector:

HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TORLONTANO Rossana

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

216

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites

It is advisable to have already acquired the knowledge of the history of art from the times before the one treated, with particular attention to the medieval period

Objectives

Training purposes

The course is part of the general purpose of the course of study to provide the basic interpretative tools in the field of historical-artistic assets and provides the tools for understanding the development of the figurative arts and architecture in Italy between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century. Methods will also be discussed, to allow students to continue with a path of study of the themes traeted during the lessons.

Contents

Main themes of the visual arts and architecture and their development in the Modern Age (cent. XV-XVIII)

Extended Syllabus

Extended program

The main themes of Italian art of the period between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century:

The Late Gothic
Birth and diffusion of the perspecive in art
The courts of the Reanaissance
The ‘maniera moderna’
The development of the Renaissance in Rome, Venice and Florence
Art at the time of the Council of Trent
Classicism, naturalism and baroque in the seventeenth century
The art of the eighteenth century in Italy between Rococo and Illuminism

Recommended Bibliography

Reference books:

Exam program for students who must receive 12 credits:

-P. L. De Vecchi, E. Cerchiari, Arte nel tempo, Bompiani, Milano, 1995, vol. II, tomes 1 and 2 or successive editions
-E. Castelnuovo, C. Ginzburg, Centro e periferia nella storia dell'arte italiana, Officina Libraria 2019
- Verrocchio. Il maestro di Leonardo, edited by F. Caglioti and A. De Marchi, exhibition catalogue (Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi e Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 9/3 – 14/7/2019), Marsilio, Venezia, 2019

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminar activities with the participation of specialists and the direct involvement of students, guided visits to exhibitions and museums, connoisseurship lessons about authors and schools of the centuries of the modern age.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Verification method

The exam consists of an oral interview with a final single mark in thirtieths

Contacts/More Information

Other infos

The teaching material not available at the ‘Ettore Paratore’ Library will be made available on the University e-learning platform.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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