Unit HISTORY OF UMBRIAN ART
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- GP003585
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teacher
- Francesco Federico Mancini
- Teachers
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- Francesco Federico Mancini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Francesco Federico Mancini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- Benedetto Bonfigli and 15th century Perugian painting
- Reference texts
- - F.F.Mancini, Benedetto Bonfigli, Milano, Electa, 1992.
- F. F. Mancini, La formazione di Benedetto Bonfigli (e alcune considerazioni sulla pittura tardogotica a Perugia), in Benedetto Bonfigli e il suo tempo, Atti del Convegno, Perugia, 21-22 febbraio 1997, a cura di M. L. Cianini Pierotti, Perugia, Volumnia Editrice, 1998, pp. 59-74, 167-170).
- E. Zappasodi, L’autunno del Medioevo a Perugia. La pittura da Gentile da Fabriano a Benedetto Bonfigli, in L’Autunno del Medioevo in Umbria. Cofani nuziali in gesso dorato e una bottega perugina dimenticata, catalogo della mostra a cura di A. De Marchi e Matteo Mazzalupi, Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, 21 settembre 2019 - 6 gennaio 2020, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana editoriale, 2019. - Educational objectives
- The course intends to put under observation a problem that is still at the center of attention of the studies today. The meaning of the didactic proposal is to show how it can be approached in a methodologically correct sense
critical debate involving some of the main protagonists of Umbrian and Tuscan Renaissance painting. - Prerequisites
- A good basic knowledge of Italian Renaissance painting.
- Teaching methods
- Ex cathedra lectures and lectures in front of works of art
- Other information
- At the end of the course, students will be given a power point containing the images shown during the lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam
- Extended program
- The course intends to address the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance culture through a series of examples that mainly concern painting but which also extend to include sculpture and decorative arts. Particular attention will be paid to the reconstruction of the historical context within which these facts are framed. We will talk about the crypto-lordship of the Baglioni and the fundamental role played by this enlightened dynasty in the promotion of sciences, letters and the arts. But the course will especially dedicate space to the important figure of Benedetto Bonfigli, the one who, together with Bartolomeo Caporali, will introduce the novelties circulating in Florence to Perugia. "Making himself the interpreter of the aspirations of the city, the artist constructs an amazing figurative chronicle where the intertwining of spectacularity and naturalness, of fiction and reality makes us forget those small formal imperfections that had upset the critical sense of Adolfo Venturi so ready to stigmatize certain" "stylistic conventions such as hairstyles" with large locks, like handpieces of tow, cannelloni robes, very short busts tightened by belts ", but absent from grasping the authentic character of Bonfigli's painting which, as Bruno Toscano wrote, it served as a "substantially renewed language" to found a "Perugian humanism in the great Florentine concert by Angelico and especially by Domenico Veneziano and Filippo Lippi" (F.F. Mancini, Benedetto Bonfigli, Milan, Electa, 1992, p. 9).