ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- SALVATORE GERUZZI
- Credits
- 12
- Curriculum
- Comunicazione della cultura e delle arti
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/02
Training objectives
- EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The educational goal is to teach an understanding of the eventual relationships between sources and images, of their chronological and stylistic ambient and the capacity to describe and identify subjects through a correct use of the methodology. Prerequisites
- ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
None. Course programme
- I.
Visual images and communication.
The interpretation of images: iconography and iconology.
Images as historical sources.
II.
The survival of classical antiquity in advertising. Didactic methods
- TEACHING METHODS
1. Frontal lessons.
2. Reading of texts.
3. Analysis and interpretation of images. Learning assessment procedures
- FINAL TEST
The final test will consist of an oral exam which will assess the knowledge and understanding of the subjects discussed during the course and of the reference texts. Critical skills and the ability to discuss the problems will be assessed, and the examinees must demonstrate that they have acquired a method for the correct interpretation of the images. Reference texts
- SYLLABUS.
P. BURKE, Testimoni oculari. Il significato storico delle immagini [2001], trad. it., Roma, Carocci, 2017 (comprese le figure).
P. CASTELLI, Le qualità degli dei, in Der antike Mythos und Europa. Texte und Bilder von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, hrsg. F. Cappelletti, G. Huber-Rebenich, Berlin, Mann, 1997, pp. 144-161 (comprese le figure).
E. H. GOMBRICH, L’immagine visiva come forma di comunicazione [1972], in ID., L’immagine e l’occhio. Altri studi sulla psicologia dellam rappresentazione pittorica [1982], trad. it., Torino, Einaudi, 1985, pp. 155-185 (comprese le figure).
E. H. GOMBRICH, Aspirazioni e limiti dell’iconologia, in ID., Immagini simboliche. Studi sull’arte del Rinascimento [1972], trad. it., Torino, Einaudi, 1978, pp. 1-37, 277-279 (comprese le figure).
E. PANOFSKY, Iconografia e iconologia. Introduzione alla storia dell’arte del Rinascimento [1939], in ID., Il significato nelle arti visive [1955], trad. it., Torino, Einaudi, 1962, pp. 29-57 (comprese le figure).
