B010558 - MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY

italian

Architecture of the mendicant orders in thirteenth-century Italy. New perspectives and open research

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For everyone: Fulvio Cervini, La prospettiva di Brunelleschi. Quaranta buone ragioni per studiare l’arte medievale, CB edizioni, Poggio a Caiano 2016.



On methods of survey and thesis:

Fulvio Cervini, Tesi e malintesi. Piccolo dizionario ad uso dei laureandi, Felici, Ghezzano 2012.

Just for Erasmus students:
A good general handbook. We suggest: Antonio Pinelli, Le ragioni della bellezza, vol. II, Dalla tarda antichità a Giotto, Loescher, Milano 2011.


Willibald Sauerlaender, Le cattedrali gotiche 1140-1260, Rizzoli, Milano 1991 (ed. or. Le siècle des Cathédrales 1140-1260, Paris 1989).

The course aims to provide an introduction to the critical study of medieval monuments, with particular attention to architecture and its decoration. This is not a history of art and architecture in the traditional and diachronic sense, but rather a reflection on themes and problems, which also touches on the forms of perception and representation of medieval art after the Middle Ages. In particular, this year's course will examine some important Franciscan and Dominican churches, cross-referencing the sources with the reading of the elders. The objective is to provide tools to read and interpret these paradigms of a new architecture, and how the medievals saw and described their architecture.
The course may also benefit, depending on availability, from contributions from both other university professors and guest scholars. Lively and assiduous contact in the field with works and monuments is encouraged: the lectures may be integrated with some guided visits to significant architectural-sculptural complexes, but this does not mean that the student deprives himself of the pleasure of individual discovery.
The teaching therefore aims to transmit in-depth knowledge of medieval architecture and the images that interact with it, with particular regard to the 12th and 13th centuries and in a European perspective; to increase the ability to critically read these buildings, both on a philological and historical level; to develop in students maturity and independent judgment regarding the history of architecture and medieval art; to increase the ownership of language and communication around these topics.

Basic knowledge of the history of medieval art, in Italy and in Europe. Notions of medieval history.

Lectures with projections of images and films.

Disabled students or students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the "UNIFI Include" desk for instructions on how to achieve the learning objectives in the most appropriate way for their specific needs. The agreed measures must be shared with the teacher in due time.

Oral examination. The possibility of an ongoing test, in the form of a questionnaire, on general knowledge of medieval art history is foreseen. The exam will above all be a conversation around the bibliography, aimed at ascertaining the effective knowledge of the texts, but above all the critical spirit and argumentative ability of the candidates. Other questions will concern the topics covered in the lessons and may include the recognition and commentary of images projected in the classroom. Disabled students or those with DSA or temporarily unable for health reasons to take the exam in the prescribed manner are invited to contact the Unifi inclusion desk to complete a training course suited to their needs in the most satisfactory manner and take advantage of the most suitable measures compensatory/dispensative. These measures must be promptly communicated to the teachers concerned.

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