Unit HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
GP005313
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Tommaso Giovanni Mozzati
Teachers
  • Tommaso Giovanni Mozzati
Hours
  • 54 ore - Tommaso Giovanni Mozzati
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2023
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline relative ai beni culturali
Academic discipline
L-ART/02
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
italian
Contents
Outlines of Italian art history from the early fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century, with monographic, thematic and methodological insights.
Reference texts
As a handbook, the student can choose one of the following textbooks:
- C. Bertelli, G. Briganti, A. Giuliano, Storia dell’arte italiana, Electa, Milano.
- P. De Vecchi, E. Cerchiari, Arte nel tempo, Bompiani, Milano.
- F. Negri Arnoldi, Storia dell’Arte, Fabbri, Milano.
- R. Scrimieri, L’arte e la storia dell’arte, Minerva Italica, Milano.

The study of the chosen handbook implies the introductory parts, the in-depth readings of specific themes (definition of the general characters of an era, in-depth study of an artistic genre or technique, etc.), as well as the artists included in the following list prepared for this purpose (it includes a greater number of artists for students enrolled in Beni Culturali).

For the methodological perspectives on the study of Early Modern art history:
G. C. Sciolla, Studiare l'Arte. Metodo, analisi e interpretazione delle opere e degli artisti, Novara 2010.

The handbook should be supplemented with the in-depth study of one of the book from the list below, related to one of the periods discussed in class. The book must be studied in its entirety, except for those for which different indications are given in round brackets.
The suggested volumes are:
- For the Late Gothic: S. Bettini, Il gotico internazionale, a cura di E. Bordignon Favero, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1996 [he text can be found in the Biblioteca Umanistica: Arte-musica, Op. Gen. 047].
- For the early Renaissance: R. Longhi, Fatti di Masolino e di Masaccio, Milano, Abscondita, 2014 [with particular attention to pp. 9-85 and that is the essay first published in “Critica d’arte”, V, 1940, nos. 25/26, pp. 145-191; this essay can also be found in the Biblioteca umanistica in the anthological volume: R. Longhi, Fatti di Masolino e di Masaccio e altri studi sul Quattrocento 1910-1967, Firenze, Sansoni, 1967: Arte-musica, Op. Gen. 129/08].
- For the Renaissance: M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972 [the volume is translated into Italian by Einaudi: Pittura ed esperienze sociali nell'Italia del Quattrocento, Turin, Einaudi, 1978. The text can be found in the Biblioteca Umanistica: Art-music, St. Crit. Baxa. 1].
- For the early sixteenth century: A. Pinelli, La bella maniera: artisti del Cinquecento tra regola e licenza, Torino, Einaudi, 1993.
- For the late sixteenth century: J. K. G. Shearman, Mannerism, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1967 [the volume is translated into Italian by S.P.E.S.: Il Manierismo, Firenze, S.P.E.S., 1983. The text can be found in the Biblioteca Umanistica: Art-music, Op. Gen. 318]
- For the transition between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: F. Zeri, Pittura e controriforma. L’arte senza tempo di Scipione da Gaeta, Torino, Einaudi, 1957 [the student can also study the reprint: Vicenza, Pozza, 1997. The text can be found in the Biblioteca Umanistica: Art-music, Gen. Op. A 022]
- For the Baroque: F. Haskell, Patrons and Painters: a study in the relations between Italian Art and Society in the age of the Baroque, London, Chatto & Windus, 1963 [the volume is translated into Italian by Sansoni: Mecenati e pittori, studio sui rapporti tra arte e società italiana nell’età barocca, Florence, Sansoni, 1966. The student can also study the reprint: Torino, Einaudi, 2020. The text can be found in the Biblioteca umanistica: Arte-musica, Op. Gen. 072] (The essay should be studied only for the introductions and the chapters devoted to Baroque art in Rome, leaving out the chapter on Venice in the eighteenth century; with reference to the Einaudi edition, the student should study: Preface, Part One, Part Two, Conclusions).
- For the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1958 [the volume is translated into Italian by Einaudi: Arte e architettura in Italia: 1600-1750, Torino, Einaudi, 1958. The student can also study the reprint: Torino, Einaudi, 2018. The text can be found in the Biblioteca Umanistica: Art-music, Gen. Op. 062] (The essay should be studied only for the introduction, conclusions and those chapters devoted to the late Baroque and Rococo).



If the student has some specific interests, the study of one of these volumes may be substituted by that of another academic volume (essay, exhibition catalog, etc.), after prior agreement with the professor.
In order to identify cross-cutting topics within the discipline that can be presented in the exam (as a substitute for the above texts), the consultation of the following collections is suggested:
- La pittura in Italia, Milano, Electa [particularly for the volumes from “Il Duecento e il Trecento” (edited by E. Castelnuovo, 1986) to “Il Settecento” (edited by G. Briganti, 1990)].
- Storia dell'arte italiana, 12 vols., Torino, Einaudi, 1979-1983.
Educational objectives
Among the fundamental exams for the Beni Culturali curriculum, the course requires the student to learn lineaments of early modern Italian art history, developing a proper ability to read works and analyze figurative experiences with adequate methodological awareness.
Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has already acquired a general knowledge of the historical and cultural, literary, philosophical and geographical context relating to the early modern era. In addition, a basic knowledge of the main periods and major personalities qualifying the history of art in Italy between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age is expected.
Teaching methods
The final exam consists of an oral test, a conversation about stylistic problems, figurative issues, schools and centers of artistic production, the most significant personalities and their main works. These topics are developed in the recommended textbooks (see Reference Texts) and partly addressed and deepened during the classes. The conversation consists mostly of three questions on different topics and periods, to which is added a broader discussion about the book chosen by the candidate (see Reference Texts). The conversation will also assess the methodological knowledge of the students (see Reference Texts) and their ability to read the works with correct language property. Active participation in class will be an additional element of positive evaluation.
Other information
The exam requires the study of one of the suggested handbooks, according to the artists listed below.
Students not enrolled in Beni Culturali and Erasmus students may limit themselves to artists whose names appear in capital letters.
Asterisks suggest the importance of every artists in view of the final exam.

- Michelino da Besozzo
- GENTILE DA FABRIANO ***
- PISANELLO *
- Lorenzo Monaco
- LORENZO GHIBERTI ***
- JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA *
- FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI ***
- MASACCIO ***
- Masolino da Panicale *
- Sassetta
- DONATELLO ***
- Michelozzo *
- BEATO ANGELICO **
- LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI **
- LUCA DELLA ROBBIA ***
- Agostino di Duccio *
- IL FILARETE *
- BERNARDO e ANTONIO ROSSELLINO *
- Desiderio da Settignano *
- Mino da Fiesole
- PAOLO UCCELLO **
- FILIPPO LIPPI **
- DOMENICO VENEZIANO **
- Andrea del Castagno *
- Benozzo Gozzoli *
- PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA ***
- FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI *
- Luciano Laurana
- Francesco Laurana
- JAN VAN EYCK **
- Rogier Van Der Weyden *
- ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO ***
- ANTONIO DEL POLLAIOLO **
- Benedetto e Giuliano da Maiano
- Giuliano da Sangallo *
- SANDRO BOTTICELLI ***
- DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO *
- Filippino Lippi *
- IL PERUGINO **
- Pintoricchio
- LUCA SIGNORELLI *
- Colantonio
- ANTONELLO DA MESSINA ***
- Francesco Squarciane *
- CARLO CRIVELLI *
- ANDREA MANTEGNA ***
- COSMÈ TURA **
- Francesco del Cossa
- Ercole de’ Roberti **
- Niccolò dell’Arca *
- VINCENZO FOPPA *
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
- DONATO BRAMANTE *
- Mauro Condussi
- Jacopo Bellini *
- GIOVANNI BELLINI ***
- Vittore Carpaccio
- ALBRECHT DÜRER *
- LEONARDO ***
- MICHELANGELO ***
- RAFFAELLO ***
- Andrea Sansovino *
- Jacopo Sansovino *
- Fra’ Bartolomeo *
- ANDREA DEL SARTO *
- ROSSO FIORENTINO **
- PONTORMO **
- Domenico Beccafumi
- Baldassarre Peruzzi
- GIULIO ROMANO *
- GIORGIONE ***
- TIZIANO ***
- Palma il Vecchio
- Sebastiano del Piombo
- LORENZO LOTTO *
- CORREGGIO **
- PARMIGIANINO *
- Il Pordenone
- Dosso Dossi *
- GIOVAN GEROLAMO SAVOLDO *
- Giovan Battista Moroni
- BRONZINO *
- GIORGIO VASARI **
- Baccio Bandinelli
- BENVENUTO CELLINI **
- GIAMBOLOGNA **
- FEDERICO BAROCCI *
- Taddeo e Federico Zuccari
- EL GRECO *
- Il Vignola
- TINTORETTO **
- PAOLO VERONESE **
- Jacopo Bassano
- Alessandro Vittoria
- PALLADIO *
- LUDOVICO, Agostino e ANNIBALE CARRACCI ***
- CARAVAGGIO ***
- Orazio e Artemisia Gentileschi *
- GUIDO RENI *
- Domenichino *
- Francesco Albani
- GUERCINO *
- Lanfranco
- PIETER PAUL RUBENS *
- REMBRANDT *
- JAN VERMEER *
- DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ *
- Stefano Maderno
- GIAN LORENZO BERNINI ***
- FRANCESCO BORROMINI *
- PIETRO DA CORTONA *
- Giovan Battista Gaulli
- NICOLAS POUSSIN *
- Claude Lorrain
- ALESSANDRO ALGARDI *
- Il Cerano
- Bernardo Strozzi
- Guarino Guarini *
- Baldassarre Longhena
- Battistello
- Jusepe de Ribera detto lo Spagnoletto
- MATTIA PRETI *
- Francesco Solimena
- LUCA GIORDANO *
- Salvator Rosa *
- Giovanni Paolo Pannini
- Pompeo Batoni *
- Giuseppe Maria Crespi
- GIACOMO CERUTI *
- Giovan Battista Piazzetta
- GIOVAN BATTISTA TIEPOLO **
- PIETRO LONGHI *
- CANALETTO ***
- Francesco Guardi *
- FILIPPO JUVARRA *
- Luigi Vanvitelli
- Giacomo Serpotta
Learning verification modality
oral
Extended program
The course analyzes the history of Italian art from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century, and its relations with the main European experiences, enucleating the activity of important masters and workshops, movements and schools, genres and salient figurative issues, placed in their historical, geographical and cultural context. Some significant episodes will be explored in depth, exemplifying various interpretative methodologies for the reading, analysis and recognition of single works of art.
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