HISTORY OF ART IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
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- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- FRANCESCA CAPPELLETTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/02
Training objectives
- Aim of the course is to enable the access of knowledge about artistic activities affecting Italian and Rome as main center of the cultural scene across 16th and 17th century. The purpose is to increase and to develop the ability of rebuilt the historical background behind the contemporary ideas about art history, related to the European geography and the interactions and movements of artists and their works of art. The course will train expert in cultural heritage studies, curatorial studies and art historical projects.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- GEORGE DE LA TOUR AND THE EUROPE OF LIGHT
The contents of the course will investigate the amount of studies and recent exhibitions that underlined Geroge de La Tour's remarkable works in the context of the European art. Lessons will focus on his work linked to the world developed as a result of his travels and highlighting the genuine possibility for works of art and ideas to circulate, contributing to the creation and popularization of many great works of art characterized by that modem and dramatic luminism, a feature not only of Italian art but also French and Flemish art.
A second group of lessons will deepen the research around the quite new field of the birth of the artistic market and to the artist’s professional working activity. The fascination of naturalism, everyday life , lust and violence animating the street as well as ancient the roman ruins and the magnificent of the modern city with the whole of its parties along the year, impresses mainly foreign artists and bringing them to desire working in Rome. During the course will be examined through case studies the strategies and socio-cultural dynamics affecting the political and economic life strictly linked to the artistic expressions of the period. Didactic methods
- Front lessons with projections of slides and powerpoint. Seminars of important international scholars.
Workshops about exhibitions planning and cultural itineraries Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination.
Four question about italian Art History of the 16th and 17th century, regarding specific aspects of artists and works of art.
The examination will last 20 minutes. Reference texts
- GEORGE DE LA TOUR AND THE EUROPE OF LIGHT
- "I bassifondi del Barocco. La Roma del vizio e della miseria".Catalogo delle mostre
Roma, Villa Medici, 6 ottobre 2014 – 17 gennaio 2015
Parigi, Petit Palais, 17 febbraio – 18 maggio 2015,
a cura di Francesca Cappelletti e Annick Lemoine, Milano, Officina libraria, 2014.
-two essays on 17th century paintings from "Il genio di Roma, 1592 - 1623", Roma 2001:
Helen Langdon, Bari, Zingari e venditori ambulanti, from "Il genio di Roma, 1592 - 1623", Roma 2001, pp. 42-65
Patrizia Cavazzini, Verso il paesaggio puro, from "Il genio di Roma, 1592 - 1623", Roma 2001, pp. 206-247
Francesca Cappelletti, Il fascino del Nord. Paesaggio, mito e supporto lucente, from "Il genio di Roma, 1592 - 1623", Roma 2001, pp. 172-205
Not attending students have the same program
DISPENSES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE
