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B004245 - MUSEOLOGY
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Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Academic Year 2022-23
Coorte 2022 - Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
12/09/2022 ⇒ 02/12/2022
Attendance required
Yes
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Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to outline the history of museum's displaying , from the birth of the public museum in the eighteenth century up to contemporary.
Therefore illustrate the novelty of ordering that characterized museums such as the Maffei of Verona or the Capitoline in Rome and out of Italy , and the explanation of the main innovations of twentieth century museums and the a- historical type of displaying .
Therefore illustrate the novelty of ordering that characterized museums such as the Maffei of Verona or the Capitoline in Rome and out of Italy , and the explanation of the main innovations of twentieth century museums and the a- historical type of displaying .
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
J. von Schlosser, Raccolte d’arte e di meraviglie del tardo Rinascimento, ed. Firenze, Sansoni 2000, pp.31-104; Culture in mostra. Poetiche e politiche dell’allestimento museale, a cura di I. Karp S.D. Lavine, Washington & London 1991, (i saggi di Svetlana Alpers, M. Baxandall, S. Greenblatt); Franzoni, Claudio, "Rimembranze d’infinite cose". Le collezioni rinascimentali di antichità, in Memoria dell’antico nell’arte italiana. L’ uso dei classici, Torino Einaudi, 1984, pp. 304-360; W. Stenhouse, Visitors, Display and Reception in the Antiquity Collections of Late-Renaissance Rome in “Renaissance Quarterly”, 58, 2, 2005, pp. 397-434. (l’articolo è scaricabile da http://www.jstore.org/stable/10.1353/ren.2008.0771 presso la Biblioteca Umanistica); C. De Benedictis, Riflessioni sulle Regole per comprare collocare e conservare le pitture di Giulio Mancini, Firenze, Edifir 2005,pp. 7-23; O. Rossi Pinelli, Per una «storia dell’arte parlante»: dal Museo Capitolino (1734) al Pio-Clementino (1771-91) e alcune mutazioni nella storiografia artistica, in "Ricerche di storia dell'arte", 84, 2004 (L’articolo è consultabile in: https://www.academia.edu/25588353/_Per_una_storia_dellarte_parlante_dal_museo_Capitolino_1734_al_Pio_Clementino_1771_91_e_alcune_mutazioni_nella_storiografia_artistica); T. Weddingen, The Picture Galleries of Dresden, Düsseldorf and Kassel, in The first Modern Museums of Art. The birth of an institution in 18th-and early 19th-century Europe, a cura di C. Paul, Los Angeles Paul Getty Museum, 2012, pp.145-165; A. Staniszewski, The power of Display. A History of Exhibition installations at the museums of modern art, MIT, 1998, pp. 62-89; C. Basualdo, Un tempo spettacolare ? Una nuova temporalità per gli allestimenti delle collezioni museali, in La vita delle mostre, a cura di A. Aymonino e I. Tolic, Mondadori 2007, pp. 115-119. P. Mainardi, Postmodern History at the Musée d'Orsay
The Mit Press, October Vol. 41 (Summer, 1987), pp. 30-52, disponibile su https://www.jstor.org/
M. C. Piva, Una storia dell'arte visibile: musei e cataloghi, in La storia delle storie dell'arte, a cura di O. Rossi Pinelli, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, pp. 131-152.
The Mit Press, October Vol. 41 (Summer, 1987), pp. 30-52, disponibile su https://www.jstor.org/
M. C. Piva, Una storia dell'arte visibile: musei e cataloghi, in La storia delle storie dell'arte, a cura di O. Rossi Pinelli, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, pp. 131-152.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the critical tools to analyze systems and museum exhibits of past and present , useful to develop different exhibition strategies and understand both in theory and in practice.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of medieval, modern and contemporary art history, art critic history, history of artistic techniques and restoration.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with projection of PWP.
Type of Assessment
Written exam with five open questions on the contents of lessons and of bibliography. At least three questions need to be answered correctly to consider the exam successfully passed. For each missing answer, two points will be removed
Course program
Introduction to the course: Strategies, poetics and policies of museum displaying
The birth of semiophoric objects; The Greenblatt categories. Types of sorting.
Types of displaying.
Solutions of displaying before the birth of the public museum (Wunderkammern, Collections of antiquity in XVI century; Mancini, Borromeo, Galleria Giustiniani).
The Eighteenth Century and the history of 'storia dell'arte parlante': the cases of the Maffeiano of Verona and of the Capitoline of Rome.
German museums: the Dusseldorf gallery.
Dominique Vivant Denon's Louvre and Alexandre Lenoir's French Museum of French Monuments.
The Soane Museum in London.
The Nineteenth-century setting and contemporary period rooms.
American Museum Designs: The Case of Alfred Barr and the Narration of Contemporary Art.
Thirty years of Nineteenth-century in France: the case of the reorganization of the Louvre Museum.
The Fifties in Italy. Isolation and spectacularization.
The 'death' of modernism and the new orders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The case of the Musee d'Orsay.
The A-historical and the previous Kassel ordinances; The new Moma.
Exhibit the types of outfitting: the exhibitions on the museum.
Making a museum in a historic building preliminary operations and awareness of the original context.
Course Summary.
The birth of semiophoric objects; The Greenblatt categories. Types of sorting.
Types of displaying.
Solutions of displaying before the birth of the public museum (Wunderkammern, Collections of antiquity in XVI century; Mancini, Borromeo, Galleria Giustiniani).
The Eighteenth Century and the history of 'storia dell'arte parlante': the cases of the Maffeiano of Verona and of the Capitoline of Rome.
German museums: the Dusseldorf gallery.
Dominique Vivant Denon's Louvre and Alexandre Lenoir's French Museum of French Monuments.
The Soane Museum in London.
The Nineteenth-century setting and contemporary period rooms.
American Museum Designs: The Case of Alfred Barr and the Narration of Contemporary Art.
Thirty years of Nineteenth-century in France: the case of the reorganization of the Louvre Museum.
The Fifties in Italy. Isolation and spectacularization.
The 'death' of modernism and the new orders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The case of the Musee d'Orsay.
The A-historical and the previous Kassel ordinances; The new Moma.
Exhibit the types of outfitting: the exhibitions on the museum.
Making a museum in a historic building preliminary operations and awareness of the original context.
Course Summary.
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Quality education; sustainable cities and communities (11.4)