ARTISTIC LITERATURE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM168

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Disciplinary Sector:

MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CARLETTINI Iole

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

It is advisable to take the exam after taking the exams of History of Medieval Art and the History of Modern Art.

Objectives

The aim of the course is to attain an adequate knowledge of the literature regarding Art in the Western civilization, from Ancient Times to the Humanistic Era. Reading of the texts has the objective to learn the main concepts as well as the proper language of the criticism of art.

Contents

Text and image: topics and forms of discourse relating to Art from the Ancient Times to the Humanistic Era.

The course examines the tradition of the writings on art from the beginning in the Greek world to Vasari, pointing out the elements of continuity and the innovative factors preceding the awareness of the Humanistic Renaissance regarding the criticism of art developed in the Classical world.

Extended Syllabus

Week 1
Week 1
An introduction to the subject.
The birth of the discourse of Art via reports by Vitruvio and Plinio.

Week 2
The History of Art in Ancient Greece: Duris and Xenocrates
The criticism of Art in the Ancient World

Week 3
Topographic literature: Pausanias
Rhetoric and criticism of Art: Lucian and Philostratus

Week 4
Towards the Middle Ages: continuity and variation in discourse regarding Art
The relationship with the heritage of the Ancient World: Rome from Notula oleorum to Francesco Petrarca

Week 5
Art Writings: titulus
Abbot Suger and the tituli for St-Denis

Week 6
The civic titulus in the XIV Century Toscana
Titulus and signature of artist

Week 7
Giotto and the new condition of the artist
Rebirth of the History of Art: Lorenzo Ghiberti

Recommended Bibliography

Donata Levi, Il discorso sull'arte: dalla tarda antichità a Ghiberti, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010
Anthony Blunt, Le teorie artistiche in Italia dal Rinascimento al Manierismo, Torino, Einaudi, 1966

Non-attending students have to integrate the program with the reading of two of the following texts:
F. Bologna, La coscienza storica dell’arte d’Italia, Torino, U.T.E.T., 1982
G. Previtali, La fortuna dei primitivi, Torino. Einaudi, 19892
E. Kris, O. Kurz, La leggenda dell'artista: un saggio storico, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 20052
M. Motolese, Italiano lingua delle arti. Un'avventura europea (1250-1650), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012
M. Baxandall, Giotto e gli umanisti, Milano, Jaca Book, 1994

Teaching Methods

Lectures.
Slides.
A study trip is planned

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam.
Final mark is expressed on a thirty point scale.
Attending students need to take a midterm written exam.

Contacts/More Information

Students of Academic Order 509 who need to take 4 CFU Exam are invited to plan the program with the lecturer.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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