Ateneo - UPO

MODERN ART HISTORY. OUTLINES.

STUDENTS ATTENDING:
Settis, Salvatore, Montanari, Tomaso, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile. 3. Dal Quattrocento alla Controriforma, Einaudi Scuola (Mondadori Education), Milano 2019 (in commercio). The book must be studied carefully in every section.
WARNING: Further study material on individual themes addressed in lessons will be indicated and made available on the D.I.R. line during the course.
Very important CLARIFICATION. Books and texts in bibliography must be carefully studied and prepared. Notes taken in class are useful but do not replace the bibliography assigned.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Settis, Salvatore, Montanari, Tomaso, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile. 3. Dal Quattrocento alla Controriforma, Einaudi Scuola (Mondadori Education), Milano 2019 (in commercio).
One of these essays or books:
- Alessandro Conti, “L’evoluzione dell’artista”, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Questioni e metodi, a cura di Giovanni Previtali, parte prima Materiali e problemi, vol. II, L’artista e il pubblico, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino 1979, pp. 115-263 (Biblioteca DISUM);

- Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Studiare l’Arte. Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Utet Libreria, Torino 2001 e edizioni successive.

- Alessandro Angelini, Il primato dell’occhio. Temi e metodi della storia dell’arte moderna, Quodlibet Studio, Macerata 2019.

The course has a series of training objectives divided into two levels.

At a basic level, the course provides knowledge and understanding, i.e. basic knowledge of the main developments, artists, works, techniques, iconography, according to the main developments indicated in the manuals.
It also provides adequate ability to apply knowledge and understanding in the ability to identify cultural areas and chronologies, genres of the history of art in the early modern age.

At an advanced level, in relation to the student's training, the course has the following training objectives:
• expression of judgments: provide the student with the tools to describe and analyze a work of art, placing it in relation to the historical and social context that generated it.
• communication skills: providing the student with a basic vocabulary for the history of art (artistic techniques, restoration, use of sources and documents), useful for communicating what has been acquired appropriately.
• study skills: indicate to the student how to focus on the evolution of artistic language in its modern forms, from the Fifteenth to the beginning of the Sixteenth century, through a path that follows the developments indicated in the manuals, but also the documents and sources.

Good knowledge in: Art History. Basic knowledge in: Modern History; Modern Italian Literature.

Lessons, seminars, visits to museums and monuments.
Visits to museums are considered part of the course. Schedule and timetable will be agreed and given during lessons and communicated on the D.I.R. forum.

Patrizia Zambrano's e-mail address is: patrizia.zambrano@uniupo.it
Patrizia Zambrano's office is in the Department of Humanities, Vercelli headquarters, Palazzo Tartara, via G. Ferraris 109, 2nd floor, studio 31.
Registration to the D.I.R. it is necessary to receive communications, as well as to be able to acquire teaching materials that will be made available on D.I.R. All students interested in receiving information and updates are therefore invited to register for the course on D.I.R.

The final exam consists of an interview of 4-5 questions and addresses the topics dealt with in the class and the bibliography assigned*.
Visits to monuments and exhibition done during the course are an integral part of the program and are subject to examination. During the exam it is advisable to have the images of the course with you.
Vote of the exam is valuated in 30/30 points and based on the following parameters:
1) knowledge of the main and principal notions presented in the lessons and in the texts indicated in the bibliography * (18 points out of 30);
2) critical reasoning capability and associations and connections (6 out of 30);
3) ability to discourse knowledge and to express it effectively and linearly, using the specialized vocabulary, where needed (6 out of 30).

*(For non-attending Students, only on the assigned bibliography).

The course aims to create a basis for disciplinary knowledge of the Modern Art History. The lessons will then follow the lines in the Modern Art History textbook, identifying at the same time the most relevant thematic lines and biographical and chronological articulations, with particular attention to the Early Italian Renaissance.

In order to achieve the knowledge, skills and abilities corresponding to the expected learning levels (basic and advanced) the student is required to do the following:

To achieve a basic level, the student must demonstrate:
- Knowledge and understanding: knowing the contents of the History of Modern Art manual for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, or knowing the figures of the main artists, works of art and the evolution of artistic language in its modern forms from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century;
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowing how to describe the work of art from a technical and iconographic point of view, recognizing its style and time of creation by macro-categories.
Transversal skills:
- Autonomy of judgment: knowing how to deduce the historical-cultural role of a work of art and knowing how to relate it to the contemporary context in Italy and Europe for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Communication skills: knowing how to formulate correctly and using the disciplinary lexicon, in oral form, the description of a work of art.
- Learning skills: knowing how to carry out the analysis of a work of art not known from the manual on the basis of the knowledge acquired during the lessons.

For the achievement of an advanced level, the student must demonstrate:
- Knowledge and understanding: knowing and mastering the disciplinary lexicon useful for reading the sources and documents relating to works of art and artists.
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowing how to historically qualify the contexts of origin of works of art and artists.
Transversal skills:
- Autonomy of judgment: knowing how to analyze, read and understand the work of art within the historical system (= society) that produced it.
- Communication skills: knowing how to use the knowledge acquired in order to transmit and disseminate, in non-specialist areas, the fundamental features of the works of art and the historical-artistic contexts studied.
- Learning skills: knowing how to face, on the basis of the knowledge acquired during the lessons and through the study of the bibliography, the reading and decoding of a figurative representation or a historical-artistic context of the Modern Age.