Research training course

The project intends to focus on the figure of Mary P. Merrifield, who, in the years 1845-1846, travelled through Italy in order to identify and transcribe art cookbooks from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The publication of such texts in 1849 (Original Treatises on the Arts of Paintings) provided art historians as well as restorers with an indispensable reference point for new research in the field of artistic techniques.

Educational Objectives

Approach of candidates to a bibliographical core sometimes considered in a partial way, which would instead be approached with a focus on the figure of Merrifield, not yet adequately investigated.

Student's Role

Interested students are proposed to write a short paper under the supervision of the tutor and to present the results during the lessons of the History of Art Criticism course.

Proposing teacher and tutor
Prof. Eliana Carrara

Conclusion of research
The project is to be developed by September 2025.

The aim of the project is to enable a student to explore the theme of the analysis of graphic and archival sources for the study of modern architecture within its context, urban and otherwise. Specifically, the proposed project will allow students to work on the reading of the graphic language, both historical and contemporary, of architecture, analysing, together with the tutor teacher and in the various sites of competence (e.g. Together with the tutor and in the various centres of competence (e.g. Genoa State Archives, the Municipality's Historical Archive, DOCSAI Centre), the teacher will analyse archive documents, drawings, cartographies on an urban and territorial scale, photographs, projects and surveys, calculations and contracts.) If necessary and possible, inspections will also be carried out, together with the lecturer, with the aim of deepening the relationship between the graphic artefact and the built artefact.

Training objectives

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1. To learn how to make the best use of graphic and documentary sources relating to modern architecture also through the use of databases and digital archives found online.

To develop skills in the use of graphic and documentary sources relating to modern architecture.

2. Develop the ability to analyse and critically read graphic and technical sources related to architecture as well as knowledge related to the reproduction of the same.
3. To acquire and use the terms of the technical language of the sector.

Student's Role

• Collaborate with the tutor teacher in the drafting of a reasoned and up-to-date reference bibliography useful for the history of architectural and urban artefacts in the modern age.
The student will also be involved in the development of a bibliography of the history of architectural and urban artefacts in the modern age.
• To keep up to date through participation in seminars and presentations.
• The research and studies carried out during the project, should the student so wish, may constitute the first part of a master's thesis having the tutor as supervisor and dedicated to an agreed case study.

Proposing professor and tutor
Prof. Sara Rulli

Conclusion of research
The project is to be developed by September 2025.

The activity of a series of painters who benefited, directly or indirectly, from the lessons irradiated by Casa Piola was oriented, in early 18th-century Genoa, towards the acquisition of increasingly pronounced design roles, externalized through the medium of graphics to guarantee a unity of the arts to be achieved in the management of religious or residential spaces. The subject of the research will be a nucleus of sheets pertaining to the Drawings and Prints Cabinet of Palazzo Rosso, variously assigned to Domenico Parodi, presenting subjects undeniably referable to furnishings, sculptural groups, fountains and portions of interiors. The sheets will have to be compared with a Genoese nucleus, also attributed to Domenico Parodi, conserved at the Victoria & Albert in London, on which reflections will also have to be made in relation to the medium used in the graphic elaboration.

Training objectives

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1. Develop the ability to analyse and critically read early 18th century Genoese graphics.
The ability to analyse and critically read early 18th century Genoese graphics.
2. To acquire and use the terms of the technical language of the sector.
3. Gain the ability to scientifically file a drawing.

Student Role

In order to achieve the training objectives set out above, the student must periodically meet with tutors and produce a brief report of the work carried out, the methodology used and the results obtained.

Proposing Lecturer
Prof. Daniele Sanguineti

Teaching tutors
prof. Daniele Sanguineti / prof. Margherita Priarone

Conclusion of research
The project is to be developed by September 2025.