HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
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General knowledge of European geography and of European history of the centuries mentioned above. It is not compulsory, but the knowledge of the history of different European countries literatures could be an important support to understand many of the topics delivered.
The final examination: verbal test which included three questions, on general topics (ig.: Longobard art; the Palatine Chapel in Aachen; Pietro Cavallini). The result is expressed with a 30-point scale that can be divided into failing (0 to 17) and passing (18 to 30 cum laude) grades. The mark is based on a general assessment on the answers to the three questions. They all have the same value. The final mark will be revised considering the global knowledge of the student.
The fundamental principles are: the knowledge acquired, the ability in formal reading (with special care of the historical criteria and data and not the emotional ones), including a critical judgment (with references to the contemporary cultural heritage), the communication skill using the proper language, the correct positioning of phenomenon, events and objects in space and time, both limited and unlimited, the ability in suggesting proper comparisons on the base of a measured structuralism.
The course of Storia dell’Arte Medievale
belongs to the group of humanistic
teachings which characterize the course of
studies of Scienze del Turismo.
Students will be able to know the outlines of the history of art in Italy from the half of Vth century to the beginning of XVth century. Specific care is required to the correct identification of the iconographic and iconological elements, the patronage taste and the public perception of Art and Architecture.
Among the learning abilities expected to be acquired there are the capability of visual analysis, the development of communication skills using the proper language; the development of a comparative attitude, considering the correct geographical, chronological and cultural context can be pointed out. The student will be able to investigate the art work (with special care on the chromatic data), connecting it with geographical and chronological contexts, analyzing with attention its art language, describing it with terminological precision, showing the knowledge acquired connecting different phenomenon, even considering extra European Art.
The acquired knowledge can contribute to the growth of the general skills of synthesis and processing of data and concepts derived from different sources, together with the development of the correct use of Italian language considering the specific dictionary required by the topics delivered, of communication skills and of the comparative attitude.
The following topics will be delivered during lessons:
Methodological introduction
From Late Antiquity to Middle Ages
Ostrogothic Art
Justinian Art
Longobard Art
Carolingian and Ottonian Art
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Late Gothic Art
The origini of the Flemish Art
Considering the XIth-XVth century a special focus will be dedicated to historical geography and to the remarkable historical centers (Milan, Como, Modena, Parma, Assisi, Rome, Florence, Siena, Avignon etc.) and to the most relevant masters ((Vuolvinio,
Wiligelmo, Benedetto Antelami, Suger, Giunta
Pisano, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Pietro Cavallini,
Jacopo Torriti, Filippo Rusuti, Cimabue, Giotto,
Duccio, Simone Martini, i Lorenzetti, Giovanni
da Milano, Matteo Giovannetti, Gentile da
Fabriano, Pisanello, Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van
Der Weyden).
The course will be delivered with frontal lessons, for the total amount of 50 hours. They will be all conducted by the tenured professor of the course, with the support of PPT presentations, encouraging interaction between the lecturer and students. At the end of each lesson students can ask for clarifications and further explanations of the topics proposed.
Trips in Lombard territory will be planned by the teacher.
The attendance of lessons is highly reccommended to take advantage of all the interdisciplinary connections (political history, historic geography, history of literature, etc.) and critical interpretations of the phenomenon which will be proposed by the teacher lesson by lesson and which can not be fully developed in the handbooks available.
Consultation hours. Using the Teams platform or at the professor’s office (Collegio Cattaneo, Via Jean Henry Dunant, 7 Varese), or even in Como in venue to be agreed. You have to require a prior appointment by sending your e-mail to andrea.spiriti@uninsubria.it. The appointment will be fixed within one week.
Before and after lessons it is always possible to have informal consultations or to require an appointment with the teacher.