OVERVIEW

The course analyses the literary and theological sources for icons and connects them with the elaboration of iconographic schemas and the artistic language of icons.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to give students the following knowledge, competencies and abilities: - through the direct reading of texts, knowledge of the historical phases and theological arguments for and against icon worship; - ability to recognise the influxes of the debate on icons in artistic techniques and iconographic schemas; - ability to compare analogies and differences between western and eastern medieval artistic iconographic schemas 

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme for students taking the course for 6 cfu

The theological debate on icons and its repercussions on subjects, schemas and depiction techniques.

Programme for students taking the course for 9 cfu

The theological debate on icons and its repercussions on subjects, schemas and depiction techniques.
The main iconographic schemas.
The manual of Dionisio da Furnà
The mourning of the dead Christ.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LIA RAFFAELLA CRESCI (President)

FRANCESCA GAZZANO

ANNA MARIA MESTURINI

LESSONS

Class schedule

LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL SOURCES FOR THE ICON

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam: reading and commenting historiographical and theological texts presented during lectures to assess students’ capacity to critically place texts within the theological debate on icons; analysis of iconographic schemas to assess students’ capacity to identify the relationship between figurative language and theological themes.

To pass students must be able to identify the main themes in the theological debate on icons and their connections with iconographic schemas.

To attain excellence students must be able to precisely identify and discuss the multiple connections between the theological dimension of the debate (in which the analytical reading of sources is immersed) and the definition of iconographic schemas. 

Exam schedule