MODERN ART HISTORY

The course, considered as a core educational activity, aims to provide methodological tools that allow the student to elaborate a deep analysis of a work of art of early modern and Baroque age, to know how to connect them to the various contexts, by detecting the theoretical, economic, social and political implications.

- knowledge and understanding: knowledge of terminology; knowledge of main artists' poetic and works of art, groups and movements in the field of visual arts during the Renaissance;
- ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowledge of how to use a precise terminology and ability to recognize main artists and works of art specified on the program, formulating an explanatory and argumentative exposure about artists' works and poetics;
- ability to understand: how to analyze a work of art or an artist's poetry or a group / movement among the studied ones, relating them to a correct temporal and cultural collocation; to be able to argue with property of language and correct formal analysis;
- communication skills: knowing how to use an appropriate and specific terminology, introduced and explained at lesson or on recommended texts and books; apply a good Italian syntax and grammar; being able to behave in a respectful and profitable way with professors and peers;
- learning skills: being able to understand how to connect a work of art or an author to cultural and artistic movements / groups or to a specific cultural moment, making comparisons between different themes based on thematic, formal, poetic bases.

Basic knowledge of modern art history

The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice: 1450-1530. Through a methodology that privileges the relationship directed to the works, the course aims to offer to the student theoretical and practical instruments, for understanding the typology of the altarpiece in Venice during the Renaissance (c. 1450-1530).

General bibliography.

Matteo Ceriana, Agli inizi della decorazione architettonica all'antica a Venezia 1455-1470, in L'Invention de la Renaissance. La réception des formes «à l'antique» au début de la Renaissance, edited by Jean Guillaume, Paris, Picard, 2003, pp. 108-142.
André Chastel, La pala d’altare nel Rinascimento, edited by Christiane Lorgues-Lapouge, Milano, Garzanti, 1993, pp. 13-63.
Peter Humfrey, The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993, pp. 1-18, 195-317.
Peter Humfrey, The Bellini, the Vivarini, and the Beginnings of the Renaissance Altarpiece in Venice, in Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550. Function and Design, edited by Eve Borssok and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 139-174.
Caterina Schmidt, La "sacra conversazione" nella pittura veneta, in La pittura nel Veneto. Il Quattrocento, edited by Mauro Lucco, Milano, Electa, 1990, 2, pp. 703-726.

Students will present in class a research that will be the subject of collegial discussion. The research will be delivered to the teacher and it will be part of the following final evaluation process.

• Classroom Lecture: Presentation with Power Point (or other image viewer), 20/25 minutes. Participation (40%)
• Original research paper (60%). The paper must be delivered to the professor no later than 15 days before the examination, with oral discussion (60%).
Text max 20 pages (excluding Footnotes, Bibliography and Illustrations), times new roman 12; Space 1.5. Footnotes according to thesis standards. Illustrations at the end of the text, with list illustrations. Final Bibliography: Sources; Studies, in alphabetical order.

Lectures with projected images; papers and discussions; visit to monuments, exhibitions, and collections. Students will present in class a research that will be the subject of collegial discussion. The research will be delivered to the teacher and it will be part of the final evaluation process.

Italian

Given the nature of the course, attendance is strongly recommended. Students not attending, shall agree an other specific bibliography with the teacher (by appointment).

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development