Unit HISTORY OF GRAPHIC
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- GP003576
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teacher
- Silvia Blasio
- Teachers
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- Silvia Blasio
- Hours
- 36 ore - Silvia Blasio
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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
- The course will survey Drawing in Central Italy between 16th and 17th centuries. Historical sources on drawing like Cennini, Vasari, Zuccari, Bellori, Malvasia wil be taken into account, together with the main drawing techniques and materials. The course will also focuse on Drawing subjects, like copies from the antique, from old masters and froma the model, as well as on principal genre themes like landscape. It will be necessary to distinguish drawing as an independent expression and preparatory drawing to painting. The second part of the course will focuse on drawings collected by Giorgio Vasari and composing his famous and mysterious "Libro di disegni".
- Reference texts
- Figure, memorie, spazio: disegni da Fra' Angelico a Leonardo, catalogo della mostra, a cura di H. Chapman, M. Faietti, Firenze, 2011
A. M. Petrioli Tofani, I materiali e le tecniche, in Il disegno, forme tecniche significati, Torino 1991, pp. 185-251
A. M. Forlani Tempesti, Giorgo Vasari e il Libro dei disegni: museo cartaceo o galleria portatile, in Giorgio Vasari e la nascita del museo, a cura di M. Wellington Gahtan, Firenze 2012, pp. 35-49.
G. Feigenbaum, From the frying Pan to the History of art: the rescue of Italian Sketch, in Riflessi del collezionismo tra bilanci critici e nuovi contributi, atti del convegno internazionale di Urbino (3-5 ottobre 2013), a cura di G. Perini, A.M. Ambrosini Massari, Firenze, 2014, pp. 221-233. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge and understanding:to know and understand the main drawing techniques of the Renaissance and Seicento Italian Artists and also the reasons that lead to collecting drawings, as the "Libro di disegni" di Giorgio Vasari shows us.
- Prerequisites
- An overall knowledge of Italian History of Renaissance and Seicento Art and Theory is required, as to be able to comprehend the main issues of the course.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures on all subjects of the course, projection of slides, educational field trips.
- Other information
- During the course the main passages referring to drawings in the most important historical sources will be shown.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral Exam; the discussion will concern the issues developed during the course, and the bibliography; it aims to check the student's level of knowledge and comprehension and his usage of a suitable language; the exam lasts not less than 20 minutes and may begin with an issue choosen by the student.
- Extended program
- According to Giorgio Vasari Drawing was the "Father of all Arts", so special attention will be reserved to drawing techiques and materials:
wood, parchment, paper, white and coloured paper
Historical sources on material and techniquess of drawing, passages by
Cennino Cennini, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari, Giovan Battista Armenini, Raffaello Borghini, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Filippo Baldinucci, Giovan Pietro Bellori
Different kind of drawings:
copies from old masters, copies from the antique, drawing after the model
Different use of drawings:
sketches, studies, preparatory drawings, sketchbooks
Different themes of drawings:
anatomy, landscape, architecture, decorative drawings
Independent drawings and preparatory drawings
Second part of the course
"Il Libro di disegni di Giorgio Vasari"; history, contents and importance of this important collection of drawings.