Unit HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART I
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- A001921
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teachers
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- Stefania Petrillo (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 36 ore (Codocenza) - Stefania Petrillo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian Language
- Contents
- Antonio Canova, "classico moderno". Patrons, collectors, critics
- Reference texts
- A. Canova, Scritti I- (Introduzione), a cura di H. Honour e P. Mariuz, Roma 2007;
A. Canova, Scritti, II (Introduzione), a cura di P. Mariuz, Bassano 2014
S. Petrillo, Al tempo di Canova, un itinerario umbro, catalogo della mostra (Perugia, Accademia di Belle Arti e Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso, 6 luglio - 1° novembre 2022), Perugia. ABAPress, 2022.
G. Pavanello, Roma/Canova, in Canova. Eterna bellezza, catalogo della mostra (Roma, 2019) Cinisello Balsamo 2019
G. Pavanello, Canova disegnatore, 2012
Other bibliographic indications for individual insights will be provided during the lessons.
Non-attending students, in addition to the texts indicated above, must integrate: Roma-Parigi
Accademie a confronto
L’Accademia di San Luca e gli artisti francesi
xvii-xix secolo
a cura di
Carolina Brook, Elisa Camboni, Gian Paolo Consoli
Francesco Moschini, Susanna Pasquali, Roma 2016 - Educational objectives
Knowing how to frame authors and works in relation to a given historical-political context.
Develop a study methodology that contemplates the sounding of different levels of reading the work of art.
Knowing how to grasp the meanings, relationships and dissonances between political reality and its representation.
Knowing how to reconstruct, through exemplary cases, a history of thought and the different meanings of the function of art and the role of the artist in society.- Prerequisites
The knowledge of the fundamentals of Nineteenth-Century Art History.- Teaching methods
Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips- Other information
Attendance is highly recommended for students graduating in Art History- Learning verification modality
Paper and Oral examination
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Paper (max 15,000 characters, bibliography included) with an in-depth analysis on a topic of the course to be agreed with the teacher and to be presented as part of a seminar organized "in itinere".
- Oral examination
The test, lasting about 30 minutes, includes questions on the topics covered in class starting from the recognition of the works, and a discussion on the texts indicated in the bibliography.- Extended program
- Canova's training
Roman cultural circles and the primacy of sculpture in the Rome of Pius VI
International patronage
The English client
Canova, Pius VII and the protection of works of art
Canova in the Academy: between Rome and Perugia.