Course teached as: B006312 - STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE (MINIATURA) Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
"Osservatorio defilato" on the Romanesque in Tuscany. The 12th century was an era of extraordinary cultural wealth, in balance between the heritage of the ancient, the Gothic, the Byzantine tradition.
From specimens volumes as the Bible of Santa Maria del Fiore we will try to trace the development of figurative language in Tuscany in a constant comparison between illumination, monumental painting and sculpture.
M. Boskovits, A Critical and historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany, 12th to 13th century, ed. by S. Chiodo, Firenze (in corso di stampa).
S. Chiodo, Dal monastero al convento: Miniatura romanica nella biblioteca dei frati minori, in "Ad usum fratris...". Miniature nei manoscritti laurenziani di Santa Croce, Firenze, 2016, pp. 25- 45, .
G. Dalli Regoli, Le intersezioni fra le arti. Le tipologie elaborate nelle miniature dei secoli XI e XII, in Scoperta armonia, a cura di C. Bozzoli, M. T. Filieri, Lucca, 2014, pp. 133-153.
La Bibbia di Calci: un capolavoro della miniatura romanica in Italia, a cura di S. Russo, Pisa, 2014.
La pittura su tavola del secolo XII, a cura di C. Acidini Luchinat, A. Monciatti, G. Wolf, Firenze, 2012.
N. Matteuzzi, Le tarsie marmoree fiorentine e le miniature toscane del XII secolo: il caso del Salterio di San Michele a Marturi, in Commentari d’arte, XV, 2009, 44, pp. 8-19.
L. Alidori Battaglia, Motivi classici nella Bibbia Edili 125 - 126 della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, in Rivista di storia della miniatura, 4, 1999, pp. 39-48.
M. Tacconi, Cathedral and civic ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence. The service books of Santa Maria del Fiore, Cambridge, 2005.
G. Tigler, Toscana Romanica, Milano, 2006
K. Berg, Studies in Tuscan twelfth century illumination, Oslo, 1968.
E. G. Garrison, Studies in the History of mediaeval Italian painting, Firenze, 1953-1962, 4 voll.
Learning Objectives
Development of specific skills for the study of the history of miniature and guidance to a multidisciplinary approach.
Prerequisites
not requested
Teaching Methods
During the lectures illustrations and illuminations will be discussed from the point of view of content and figurative style.
Students, number of those attending permitting, will be required to write a description of a manuscript assigned by the teacher.
Further information
Students could have the support of the database concerning romanesque illumination available on the website www.corpuspitturafiorentina.it
Type of Assessment
Discussion, moving from the recognizing and description of illuminations shown during the lessons
Course program
After almost half a century by the last monographic study dedicated to the Tuscan illumination of the century XII by Knut Berg, based on the wide and extensive research devoted to this subject by Edward B. Garrison in his Studies published between 1953 and 1962, new acquisitions in history, art history and philology open new perspective of research. Starting from a description of the framework of the Tuscan painting of the twelfth century we will analyse the Bible in two volumes of the Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence, Laurentian Library, Construction 125 and 126) that retains a very wide decorative cycle of illustrations and decorated initials and other manuscripts, equally representative of book illustration of the period in Tuscany, including the Psalter of San Michele in Marturi (Florence, Laurentian Library, Plut.17.3) the Sacramentary New York Pierpont Morgan Library (ms. M737) and others. The illuminations shall be analyzed from the point of view of style and commented in relation to the figurative culture of central Italy on the basis of comparisons with other illuminations but also monumental painting and architectural sculpture; space will be dedicated then to the study of iconographic content, models and possible diversions, including the structure and composition of the text.
The course will be integrated by a lecture by Prof. David Baldi Bellini, master of Gregorian choir of Santa Maria del Fiore dedicated to the specificities of the liturgical and musical content of the Florentine cathedral books.