Unit HISTORY OF ART CRITICISM

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
GP005323
Curriculum
Storia dell'arte
Teacher
Cristina Galassi
Teachers
  • Cristina Galassi
Hours
  • 36 ore - Cristina Galassi
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ART/04
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Introduction to the study of the discipline and its methodology. Development of the history of art criticism from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, analyzed in its basic steps and analyzed through textual sources related to the artistic production from classical antiquity to the twentieth century
Reference texts
- J. Schlosser Magnino, La letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della Storia dell’arte moderna, Scandicci ( Firenze), La Nuova Italia, 1964
- L.Venturi, Storia della critica d’arte, Torino, Einaudi, 1964
- L. Grassi, Teorici e storia della critica d’arte, Roma, Multigrafica Editrice, 3 vv. 1970-1979
-  P. Barocchi, Storiografia e collezionismo dal Vasari al Lanzi, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Materiali e problemi. L’artista e il pubblico, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, pp.5-81 - Le Vite de più eccellenti Architetti, Pittori, et Scultori italiani da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri descritte in lingua Toscana da Giorgio Vasari Pittore Aretino, in Firenze, appresso Lorenzo Torrentino MDL, ed. cons. a cura di L. Bellosi e A. Rossi, Presentazione di G. Previtali, Torino, Einaudi, 1986
- G. C. Sciolla, a critica d’arte del Novecento, Torino, Utet, 1995
- Readings from the Lives of Giorgio Vasari
- Readings from: Cennini , Alberti , Ghiberti , Leonardo , Mancini , Baglione Bellori , Malvasia , Winckelmann
 -Additional Bibliographical contributions on special topics will be provided in class.
Educational objectives
The course aims to provide students with the basic tools necessary to critically analyze the sources of artistic literature , applying a wild correct analysis methodology and framing historically and culturally the same sources
Prerequisites
For an understanding of the topics discussed during the course, students must have a basic understanding of the history of medieval and modern art. This precondition is valid both for students attending and not attending
Teaching methods
Face to face, practical training, seminars and field trips (optional)
Other information
Address email Cristina Galassi: cristina.galassi@unipg.it
Learning verification modality
The exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussion-inteview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through reccomended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and 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 introduce the study of the history of art criticism, highlighting the various problems connected with the specific methodology of the discipline. The program aims to provide a general overview of the historiography of Italian art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, however, in relation to the contemporary European literature. The classes will be character textbook, with a focus on reading and the 'interpretation of the sources of artistic literature, which will always be analyzed in relation to the artists, the works and contexts. A good part of the course will be devoted to the study of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists in the two editions of 1550 and 1568. Particular importance will be given to reading exercises of texts particularly significant in artistic literature
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