Unit HISTORY OF REGIONAL ART

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
35321812
Curriculum
Storia dell'arte
Teacher
Silvia Blasio
Teachers
  • Silvia Blasio
Hours
  • 36 ore - Silvia Blasio
CFU
6
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
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Young Raphael and UmbriaThe course aims to analyze Raphael's work from his formative years to his final years, providing students with an overview of Sanzio's life and works. The years of his presence in Umbria, his relationship with Perugino and the works he created for Città di Castello and Perugia will be the subject of particular study.
Reference texts
V. Farinella, Raffaello, Milano, 2004;
V.Farinella, Raffaello giovanissimo: Urbino, Città di Castello, Perugia, in Raffaello, catalogo della mostra (Roma 2020), a cura di M. Faietti, M. Lanfranconi, Milano, Skira 2020, pp. 463-471;
A. Nova, Raffaello a Firenze e la scultura del Quattrocento, in Raffaello, catalogo della mostra, 2020, pp. 423-433.
F.F. Mancini, Ancora su Raffaello giovane: alcune considerazioni in merito, in Gli esordi di Raffaello tra Urbino, Città di Castello e Perugia, catalogo della mostra di Città di Castello (2006), a cura di F. F. Mancini, T. Henry, Città di Castello 2006, pp. 11-24;
S. Ferino Pagden, Il giovane genio disegnatore a Città di Castello, in Raffaello giovane a Città di Castello e il suo sguardo, catalogo della mostra (Città di Castello 2021), a cura di M. Mercalli, L. Teza, Cinisello Balsamo, 2021, pp. 37-45.Other short texts or catalog entries useful for exam preparation will be indicated during the lectures.
Educational objectives
Knowledge of Raphael's activity and his main works executed in the period between Urbino and Rome.
Competence: to be able to establish the correct chronological sequence of Raphael's life and works with reference to contemporary art historical facts; to be able to describe the works with the appropriate vocabulary; to be able to read an image defining its main characters.
ability: to be able to identify the fundamental and specific characters of Raphael's art and to know how to contextualize it in his time and in the various places where it developed.
Prerequisites
The student should possess a textbook-level knowledge of the fundamentals of Italian Renaissance art history.
Teaching methods
Frontal and dialogic lecture with image projection and if possible, educational trips.
Other information
During the lectures, power points with images of works by Raphael and other artists will be shown for comparison, as well as excerpts from the sources. All materials, including some bibliographic reference texts, will be uploaded to the Unistudium platform.
Learning verification modality
The examination includes a final oral test that consists of a discussion-colloquium related to the topics covered during the course and explored in depth in the recommended texts. The test serves to ascertain the level of knowledge acquired and the ability to understand, as well as to synthesize, achieved by the student. The interview will also allow to verify the student's ability to communicate what he or she has acquired, with method and propriety of language. The interview will generally last no less than twenty minutes.

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Extended program
Raphael's training in Urbino; Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father and his workshop; Urbino's artistic environment. Salient excerpts from Raphael's biography written by Giorgio Vasari; informations from other sources and documents; Raphael and Umbria: friends, colleagues, figurative models and patrons; relations with Perugino, Luca Signorelli and Pinturicchio; Raphael's works for Città di Castello and Perugia.
Raphael's Florentine period and his relationships with earlier and contemporary artists; works for Perugia executed in the Florentine phase: the genesis of the Transport of Christ for the church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia. The move to Rome in 1508: Raphael for the popes: the Vatican Rooms; late works by Raphael
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5 Gender equality
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