Ateneo - UPO

OUTLINE OF ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN ART HISTORY FROM 7th TO 14th CENTURY

Suggested manual: S. Settis-T. Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, Milano, A. Mondadori-Einaudi Scuola, 2019, vol. 2: Dall'Alto Medioevo alla fine del Trecento. Other useful manuals A. Pinelli, Le ragioni della bellezza. 2. Dalla Tarda Antichità a Giotto, Torino, Loescher 2012 (INSTRUCTIONS: "RED EDITION", with DVD); E. Bairati – A. Finocchi, Arte in Italia, vol. I, Torino, Loescher, 1984 e succ. edd. [only the sections related to the program]. M. Becchis - L. Galli - G. Valenzano, Il medioevo (vol. 1B de L’arte e la Storia dell’Arte, a cura di Rita Scrimieri, Milano, Minerva Italica, 2002; G. Bora, G. Fiaccadori, A. Negri, A. Nova, I luoghi dell'Arte. Storia, opere, percorsi, Vol. 2, Milano, Electa Scuola, 2009. Futher readings (optional) will be indicated in the lectures. It is also advisable to consult, for explanations and information on certain topics of general and individual contexts or monuments, the '"Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale", Rome, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 12 vols., owned by the Department's Library.

• knowledge and understanding: To know the evolution of the artistic language from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance. Understand representative and iconographic codes. • ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Knowing how to recognize the regional, chronological context of an artistic historical artifact or medieval architecture. Ability to understand the iconographic code of an image or the structural typological data of a medieval architecture. • objectives - expression of opinions: To be able to deduce the historical-cultural role of an artefact and to know how to relate it to the contemporary context in Europe. • communication skills: To be able to illustrate the main characters and contents of a medieval historical, artistic or architectural artefact. • study skills: To be able to face, on the basis of the knowledge acquired during the lessons, the evaluation (reading and decoding) of an artistic or architectural context of the Middle Ages.

Basic concepts (secondary school level) in History, Literature and Philosophy of the Middle Ages

Lectures, tutorials and seminars, visits to monuments, museums and exhibitions.

Study visits are planned, if possible.

At the end of the course there will be a test of assessment in the form of an oral examination, lasting a minimum of twenty minutes, tending to check the achievement of educational goals through: 1. the recognition of some images taken from a textbook; 2. check of student's descriptive ability of such images, as well as the ability to relate them with cultural / artistic / architectural contexts of the period considered; 3. ability to relate the works with the cultural / artistic / architectural contexts of the reference period; 4. knowledge of the figurative and representative codes; 5. knowledge of the specific terminology of the discipline. In particular, the following weight will be given to the verification of the aforementioned achievement of the training objectives: 1: 20%; 2: 20%; 3: 40%; 4: 10%; 5: 10%.

The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the main issues related to the reading of the medieval image and the evolution of the artistic and architectural language in the Middle Ages, with attention to the iconographic, representative, chronological. - didactic unit 1: Propaedeutics: the historiographic concept of the Middle Ages applied to the history of art and architecture. - didactic unit 2: Basic concepts: figurative tradition, iconography, representative codes. - didactic unit 3: Exemplifications through the study of illustrative material projected to the lesson and possible visits to muses and monuments. - didactic unit 4: The problem of architecture and art techniques in the Middle Ages: building sites and art workshops. Treatises: Mappae Clavicula, Teofilo, Cennino Cennini.

1 - Being able to recognize the regional, historical chronology of an artistic artefact or a medieval architecture. Being able to understand the iconographic code of an image or structural typological data of a Middle Ages architecture. 2 - Being able to describe in a synthetic but exhaustive way the character and salient contents of an artistic or architectural historical artifact of the Middle Ages.