Unit HISTORY OF CRITICS AND ART COLLECTING II

Course
Archaeology and history of art
Study-unit Code
A001631
Curriculum
Generico
Teacher
Cristina Galassi
Teachers
  • Cristina Galassi
Hours
  • 36 ore - Cristina Galassi
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2021/22
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ART/04
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course aims to analyze the phenomenon of Italian collecting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century in the light of known sources and documents and showing their interactions with the culture, taste and ideologies of the time
Reference texts
C. De Benedictis, Per la storia del collezionismo italiano. Fonti e documenti, Ponte alle Grazie 1991
Educational objectives
Good knowledge of the history of Italian collecting; good knowledge of sources on collecting; ability to read sources and documents in relation to selected cases
Prerequisites
For an understanding of the topics discussed during the course, students
must have a good knowledge of art history and the history of art
criticism. This precondition is valid both for students attending and not
attending
Teaching methods
The course is organized as follows: blended teaching, in presence and in telepresence simultaneously with synchronous and / or asynchronous mode
Other information
Address email Cristina Galassi:
cristina.galassi@unipg.it
Learning verification modality
The exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussioninteview
on the topics discussed during the course and examined indepth
through reccomended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of
knowledge und understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the
student. Moreover this interview will verify that the student is able to
communicate, with method and propriety of language, what he has
acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance
of the test itself and begins, as a rule, with a subject of the student's
choice in order to put him at ease
Extended program
The course aims to analyze the phenomenon of Italian collecting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century in the light of known sources and documents and showing their interactions with the culture, taste and ideologies of the time.
In particular, the following will be analyzed: the role of Medici collections in 15th-century Florence, the artist's shops, the correspondence of Isabella d'Este, the studios, Rome and the recovery of the ancient, the Uffizi and Florentine collections of the sixteenth century, ideal museums and poetic galleries, galleries and noble galleries, finally the transition from the noble collection to the public museum
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