| CODE | 65064 |
|---|---|
| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2021/2022 |
| CREDITS |
|
| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | L-ART/01 |
| LANGUAGE | Italian |
| TEACHING LOCATION |
|
| SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
| MODULES | This unit is a module of: |
| TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
The European Medieval Monumental Arts course is monographic; the specific theme to which the course is dedicated changes each year but the aim is always to critically investigate architecture, painting and sculpture in Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean between 1100 and 1400. Special attention is given to “dynamic” artistic phenomena of interrelation between artistic techniques and different geographical areas in terms of method and merit.
The objective of the course is to tackle and analyse themes dealing with medieval architecture, figurative arts and applied arts in a European perspective with specific attention to “dynamic” artistic phenomena of interrelation between different cultural areas.
The fundamental educational objectives of the teaching of Monumental Arts of the European Middle Ages are:
to guide students to face correctly and to understand a theme, a problem, a personality, an artistic phenomenon of medieval times in a historical and critical key;
to provide students with a wealth of specific knowledge in relation to a given topic and train them to use correct methodologies of approach, analysis, discussion, evaluation and historical contextualisation of medieval artistic documents;
to motivate students to study these documents, understood as certificates and monuments of civilization.
General and specific knowledge and skills acquired in the course of Storia dell'Arte Medievale (History of Medieval Art).are required. Please, compare in detail the Teaching Form of the subject, within the Degree Course in Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
The ability to read and understand texts in English
The 9 cfu course is 60 hours long . Lectures normally use powerpoint presentations.
The 6 cfu course is 40 hours long and is divided into lectures and study surveys. Although the themes are the same, the bibliographical material is reduced.
Images used will be made available to students
Programma per 9 cfu
Nicola Pisano: le origini, la formazione e la prima attività fino al pulpito di Siena/ Origins, training and first activity up to the Siena pulpit
Nicola Pisano e il suo ruolo storico nella storiografia artistica italiana da Vasari a Cicognara/Nicola Pisano in historiography from Vasari up to Cicognara
Analisi dei documenti d’archivio/The documents
Aspetti del classicismo nella scultura del XIII secolo fra Europa e Italia/The classical style in European sculpture during the XIIIth century:
Il “Castello dell’Imperatore” di Prato e il rapporto Apulia/Toscana ghibellina/ The "Emperor Castle" in Prato and the relationships between the Apulia and the Gibelline Tuscany
La Fontana di Piombino/ The Piombino Fountain
La “testa femminile” in pirite aurea di Palazzo Venezia: classicismo e sperimentalismo tecnico/ The Female piryte Head of Palazzo Venezia: classicism an technical experimentations
Il “visibile parlare”: Dante e le arti figurative/ The 'visibile parlare': Dante and visual arts
La lunetta e l’architrave del portale nord della Cattedrale di Lucca/ Nicola Pisano at Lucca Cathedral
Il pulpito del Battistero di Pisa/ The Pisa Papristery Pulpit
La Testa di Apostolo di collezione privata; la Testa del ‘Moro di Pisa’/ The Apostle Head and the 'Moro di Pisa Head': two problems
La bottega di Nicola Pisano a Siena/ Nicola Pisano's workshop in Siena
I collaboratori/Nicola's collaborators in the Siena workshop:
Esiti: Il pulpito della Cattedrale di Siena e l’arca di san Domenico a Bologna/ Outcomes: The Siena Pulpit and The St.Dominic Tomb in Bologna
Programma per 6 cfu:
Nicola Pisano: le origini, la formazione e la prima attività fino al pulpito di Siena/ Origins, training and first activity up to Siena pulpit
Nicola Pisano e il suo ruolo storico nella storiografia artistica italiana da Vasari a Cicognara/Nicola Pisano in historiography from Vasari up to Cicognara
Analisi dei documenti d’archivio/The documents
Aspetti del classicismo nella scultura del XIII secolo fra Europa e Italia/The classical style in European sculpture during the XIIIth century:
Il “Castello dell’Imperatore” di Prato e il rapporto Apulia/Toscana ghibellina/ The "Emperor Castle" in Prato and the relationships between the Apulia and the Gibelline Tuscany
La Fontana di Piombino/ The Piombino Fountain
La “testa femminile” in pirite aurea di Palazzo Venezia: classicismo e sperimentalismo tecnico/ The Female piryte Head of Palazzo Venezia: classicism an technical experimentations
Il “visibile parlare”: Dante e le arti figurative/ The 'visibile parlare': Dante and visual arts
La lunetta e l’architrave del portale nord della Cattedrale di Lucca/ Nicola Pisano at Lucca Cathedral
Il pulpito del Battistero di Pisa/ The Pisa Papristery Pulpit
La Testa di Apostolo di collezione privata; la Testa del ‘Moro di Pisa’/ The Apostle Head and the 'Moro di Pisa Head': two problems
La bottega di Nicola Pisano a Siena/ Nicola Pisano's workshop in Siena
I collaboratori/Nicola's collaborators in the Siena workshop:
Bibliography for 9 cfu
Bibliography for 6 cfu
Preliminary READINGS, recommended but NOT OBLIGATORY:
O. von Simson, La cattedrale gotica e il concetto medievale di ordine, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988
R. Bechmann, Le radici delle cattedrali. L’architettura gotica, espressione delle condizioni dell’ambiente, Casale Monferrato, Marietti, 1984
A. Monciatti, L’arte nel Duecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2013
D. Kimpel, I cantieri, in Arti e storia del Medioevo. I, Tempi Spazi Istituzioni, a cura di E. Castelnuovo e G. Sergi, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, pp. 171-197
Office hours: Professor Clario Di Fabio receives students on Mondays (11-13) on Thursdays (11-13) in his studio, via Balbi 4, fifth floor. The Teams platform can also be used, upon reservation by e-mail (clario.difabio@unige.it) No office hours for students on the days in which the exams are scheduled. In cases of force majeure (institutional commitments, participation in conferences, etc.), the teacher will notify the students on AulaWeb.
CLARIO DI FABIO (President)
GIANLUCA AMERI (President Substitute)
LESSONS WILL START ON MONDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER 2021
SCHEDULE:
MONDAY 9-11 am
WEDNESDAY 5-7 pm
The exam is oral.
The student is invited first to present and discuss a topic, a problem, a work of art of his choice (within the programme); the Commission will then invite him to recognise, identify and place chronologically one or more works of art (among those available on manuals and texts in adoption) and/or to treat a theme, a problem, a concept, a phenomenon, an artifact or a typology of artifacts, an artist, a field, always within the programme.
Each student will come to the exam with his/her own manuals and other textbooks, as well as images in USB flash drive)
he exam is oral and includes the use of textbook images and those used in class, made available to students. Evaluation concerns knowledge and skills. The following will occur: the ability to respond in compliance with and consistency with the proposed question; the possession of specific language skills; the specific knowledge of the topics covered; the ability to read and decode images; the ability to refer them to an artist and / or an era and to argue judgment; the ability to correlate artistic products and historical-cultural phenomena, in the broadest sense of the term. Based on the degree of achievement of this knowledge and skills, grades above the threshold of sufficiency will be assigned. Regarding the attribution of the votes: 1. To achieve excellence (grades ranging from 28 to 30 with lode), the candidate must reveal, with excellent expressive skills: marked ability to recognize and classify the proposed artefacts; ability to discuss them, also with interdisciplinary links; availability and aptitude for analysis, in-depth and organic vision of the problems and topics covered by the course 2. an acceptable but predominantly mnemonic knowledge, a superficial analysis and a correct but not always appropriate language will lead to a satisfactory evaluation (good marks from 25 to 27 inclusive) and votes (from 23 to 24); 3. a sometimes incomplete knowledge, a superficial understanding, an intermittent ability to chronologically and historically discuss and place the proposed artistic documents and simplistic or approximate forms of expression may be considered sufficient (18-22); 4. obvious and extensive gaps in the preparation, inappropriate language, lack of reference points regarding the historical-formal location of the works and the topics presented in class will be evaluated negatively.
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14/12/2021 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | Prova d'esame riservata ai laureandi |
| 17/01/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 07/02/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 09/05/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | Prova d'esame riservata ai laureandi |
| 23/05/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 13/06/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 27/06/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 12/09/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale |
Students are urged to register on AulaWeb as soon as possible. This is the only channel that enables teaching staff to immediately and directly contact all registered students for all eventualities, both teaching and practical (announcements, absence, emergencies, etc.).
Students must bring all the necessary material to the exam (texts, images on a usb drive).
Students and final year students are informed that when office hours coincide with exams, office hours are cancelled.