Course teached as: B006312 - STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE (MINIATURA) Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Style, content and narrative strategies in Santa Maria Novella, Florence and San Francesco, Cortona choral books of the 13th century. The course aims to investigate aspects of the relationship between text and image in the most ancient liturgical books of the mendicant orders through these two case studies.
M. Degl’Innocenti Gambuti,I codici miniati medievali della Biblioteca Comunale e dell’Accademia Etrusca di Cortona,
Firenze,1977.
-A. Labriola, Aspetti della miniatura a Firenze nella seconda metà del Duecento, Schede 61a-64, in Arte a Firenze nell'età di Dante. 1250-1300, catalogo della mostra a cura di A. Tartuferi e M. Scalini, Firenze, 2004, pp. 184-207.
J. Cannon,Religious poverty, visual riches:art in the Dominican churches of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, New Haven, 2013.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to stimulate both the acquisition of skills in the analysis of the formal characteristics of medieval illumination and an interdisciplinary approach that, in this case, takes into account the historical, liturgical and textual context.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures, workshop
Further information
The teacher meets student each Friday, 2pm, SAGAS, via G. Capponi 9, photolibrary
Type of Assessment
discussion based on recognizing Images available on Moodle, bibliography and notes from lessons
Course program
-Choir books for Dominicans and Franciscans in Tuscany, ca 1260-1300: text, music and images for the liturgy.
-Narrative cycles: new tales and new models of holiness.
-An unsolved critical issue: tradition and innovation in florentine illumination in Florence during the second half of the 13th century. The choir books of Santa Maria Novella in Florence and St. Francis in Cortona.