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B011260 - SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE ARTS
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Course program
Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2020 - Second Cycle Degree in ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/01 - HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
22/02/2021 ⇒ 28/05/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B006313 - STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE (MINIATURA)
Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
B006313 - STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE (MINIATURA)
Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
The course is divided into two modules: A (Stories of lost and found painted pages. Reading exercises in context.) which will take place in the second semester (I sub-semester); B (Fundamentals of the history of illumination) which will take place in the second semester (second sub-semester).
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
See extended program.
Learning Objectives
The course, as a whole, intends to provide basic training on the specific aspects of studying the illustrated code and to present research methods and problems.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lessons with Power Point presentations.
Type of Assessment
Oral interview on the topics presented in class, based on the bibliography and handouts.
Course program
The course is divided into two Units: A (Stories of lost and found painted pages. Reading exercises in context.) which will take place in the second semester (I sub-semester); B (Fundamentals of the history of illumination) which will take place in the second semester (second sub-semester). Module B replaces also the teaching of Sources for the History of Art (degree course in Archival and Library Sciences). Students of this latter degree course who prefer to follow Unit A and take the related exam can do so. Students of the degree course in Art History who intend to take a 6 credits exam can choose between Unit A and Unit B indifferently.
Unit A.
The course takes its cue from the liturgical series reassembled on the occasion of the exhibition Storie di pagine dipinte and will investigate some possible further research paths: from critical and philological analysis, to textual peculiarities, to iconographic analysis in relation to patrons and finally to the relationship with the context for which they were made. The aim of the course is the attempt to concretely verify the overcoming of the negative connotation implicit in the distinction between major and minor arts, between monumental art and illumination, verifying from time to time how the more general orientations of the figurative culture of an era were reflected in different contexts, but no less cultured and refined.
Topics
-The Tuscan itinerary of the Master of Sant’Alessio in Bigiano: from Pistoia to Grosseto passing through Florence.
- “Miniaturist tendency”: what does it really mean? Reflection on the Florentine illumination of the early fourteenth century focusing on the chorals of Montepulciano and Castelfiorentino.
-The chorals of San Lucchese in Poggibonsi: a case study for the transformation of a Franciscan community in the transition from the conventual family to Bernardinian observance.
-The chorals of the Benedictines and painting in Perugia between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Oral interview on the topics presented in class, based on the bibliography and handouts.
The course contents will be presented in lectures accompanied by Power Point presentations.
Class timetable: 2nd semester, 1st sub-semester.
Bibliography
Storie di pagine dipinte. Miniature recuperate dai Carabinieri, by Sonia Chiodo, Livorno 2020.
Further bibliography will be added during the course.
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Unit B: Fundamentals of History of Illumination
The course intends to present the peculiar aspects of the study of illumination from the early Middle Ages to the full Renaissance. Aspects related to techniques, sources, types of books, patronage, transmission of models, relationship with monumental arts will be addressed diachronically.
The contents of the course will be presented in lectures accompanied by Power Point presentations and seminar dedicated to increase skills in the descriptive language of a painting or illumination and in their authorial, topical and chronological classification.
Class attendance is mandatory and essential.
Timetable: II semester, II semester; see website of the degree course.
Exam bibliography
O. Pächt, La miniatura medioevale, Torino, 1987 (o ristampe successive), pp. 45-95 (L’iniziale), 129-153 (L'illustrazione della Bibbia) (ed. or. in lingua tedesca O. Pächt, Buchmalerei des Mittelalters. Eine Einführung, a cura di D. Thoss e U. Jenni, München 1984).
G. Zanichelli, I soggetti dei libri liturgici miniati (VI-XIII), in L’arte medievale nel contesto (300-1300), a cura di P. Piva, A. Cadei, Milano, 2006, pp. 245-276.
Unit A.
The course takes its cue from the liturgical series reassembled on the occasion of the exhibition Storie di pagine dipinte and will investigate some possible further research paths: from critical and philological analysis, to textual peculiarities, to iconographic analysis in relation to patrons and finally to the relationship with the context for which they were made. The aim of the course is the attempt to concretely verify the overcoming of the negative connotation implicit in the distinction between major and minor arts, between monumental art and illumination, verifying from time to time how the more general orientations of the figurative culture of an era were reflected in different contexts, but no less cultured and refined.
Topics
-The Tuscan itinerary of the Master of Sant’Alessio in Bigiano: from Pistoia to Grosseto passing through Florence.
- “Miniaturist tendency”: what does it really mean? Reflection on the Florentine illumination of the early fourteenth century focusing on the chorals of Montepulciano and Castelfiorentino.
-The chorals of San Lucchese in Poggibonsi: a case study for the transformation of a Franciscan community in the transition from the conventual family to Bernardinian observance.
-The chorals of the Benedictines and painting in Perugia between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Oral interview on the topics presented in class, based on the bibliography and handouts.
The course contents will be presented in lectures accompanied by Power Point presentations.
Class timetable: 2nd semester, 1st sub-semester.
Bibliography
Storie di pagine dipinte. Miniature recuperate dai Carabinieri, by Sonia Chiodo, Livorno 2020.
Further bibliography will be added during the course.
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Unit B: Fundamentals of History of Illumination
The course intends to present the peculiar aspects of the study of illumination from the early Middle Ages to the full Renaissance. Aspects related to techniques, sources, types of books, patronage, transmission of models, relationship with monumental arts will be addressed diachronically.
The contents of the course will be presented in lectures accompanied by Power Point presentations and seminar dedicated to increase skills in the descriptive language of a painting or illumination and in their authorial, topical and chronological classification.
Class attendance is mandatory and essential.
Timetable: II semester, II semester; see website of the degree course.
Exam bibliography
O. Pächt, La miniatura medioevale, Torino, 1987 (o ristampe successive), pp. 45-95 (L’iniziale), 129-153 (L'illustrazione della Bibbia) (ed. or. in lingua tedesca O. Pächt, Buchmalerei des Mittelalters. Eine Einführung, a cura di D. Thoss e U. Jenni, München 1984).
G. Zanichelli, I soggetti dei libri liturgici miniati (VI-XIII), in L’arte medievale nel contesto (300-1300), a cura di P. Piva, A. Cadei, Milano, 2006, pp. 245-276.