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 2024
Offered
2025/26
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline relative ai beni culturali
Academic discipline
L-ART/04
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
‘Elogio della mano’: introduzione alla storia delle tecniche artistiche.

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.

S. RINALDI, - S. Rinaldi, Storia tecnica dell'arte. Materiali e metodi della pittura e della scultura (secc. V-XIX), Roma, Carocci Editore, 2011.


Specific information relating to the course and teaching materials will be available on the platform Unistudium: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the teaching page «Museologia».

It is possible to agree with the teacher on a specific program for working students and non-attending students


Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) 
 

Educational objectives
The course aims to illustrate the main artistic techniques from the ancient to the contemporary world

Prerequisites
Essential knowledge of the artistic history from the ancient to the contemporary world

Teaching methods
Frontal lessons; projections. educational trips.

Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) 
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the  Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)

Other information

Learning verification modality

Attendance (recommended but not mandatory); final oral interview of approximately twenty minutes with open response; evaluation elements:
understanding of the importance of artistic techniques in the execution process of the work of art

Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).

Extended program
Using examples drawn mainly from the field of medieval and Renaissance art, the course traces the history of some of the main artistic techniques with a 'focus' on fifteenth-century sculpture, through a dialogue with the techniques of contemporary art.

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