Unit HISTORY OF ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- GP005322
- Curriculum
- Storia dell'arte
- Teacher
- Alfredo Bellandi
- Teachers
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- Alfredo Bellandi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alfredo Bellandi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline relative ai beni storico-archeologici e artistici, archivistici e librari, demoetnoantropologici e ambientali
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italiano
- Contents
- 'In praise of the hand': introduction to the history of artistic techniques.
The course traces the history of the main artistic techniques from the ancient to the contemporary world. - Reference texts
- - H. FOCILLON, Elogio della mano, in Vita delle forme (1934), ed. it. Torino, Einaudi, 2002, con Prefazione di E. CASTELNUOVO, pp. 105-130.
- F. NEGRI ARNOLDI, Il mestiere dell'arte. Introduzione alla storia delle tecniche artistiche, Napoli, Paparo 2001: cap. I-VI, pp. 5-107.
- S. RINALDI, Storia tecnica dell'arte. Materiali e metodi della pittura e della scultura (secc. V-XIX), Roma, Carocci Editore, 2011.
- A. CONTI, Tempera, oro, pittura a fresco: la bottega dei “primitivi”, in La pittura in Italia. Il Duecento e il Trecento, a cura di E. CASTELNUOVO, Milano, Electa 1986, pp. 513-528.
- G. GENTILINI, La scultura fiorentina in terracotta del Rinascimento: tecniche e tipologie, in La scultura in terracotta. Tecnica e conservazione, cura di M. G. Vaccari, Firenze, Cento Di, 1996, pp. 64-103. - Educational objectives
- The course traces the history of the main artistic techniques from the ancient to the contemporary world.
- Prerequisites
- Manual knowledge of historical-artistic events from antiquity to the twentieth century is required.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons; projections; educational trips; meetings with sector operators.
- Learning verification modality
- Attendance (recommended but not compulsory); final oral interview.
- Extended program
- Focusing on the thought of Henry Focillon, using examples in particular taken from medieval and Renaissance art, the course traces the history of the main artistic techniques with a 'focus' on medieval and Renaissance sculpture, through a dialogue with the techniques of art Contemporary.