Unit HISTORY OF ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
GP005322
Curriculum
Storia dell'arte
Teacher
Alfredo Bellandi
Teachers
  • 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.
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