ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH SOURCES FOR ART HISTORY

The course has the purpose to furnish to the students knowledges methodological and about history of the art medieval and modern; it is inserted among those to choice of the Similar and integrative Activities.
Knowledge and understanding:

- as part of the knowledge of the history of art from early Christian to contemporary, the course will provide information on medieval goldsmithry, medieval and modern architecture, collections, techniques;
- as part of the knowledge of the methodological problems and the main tools for analyzing works of art, the course will specifically address the problem of critical reading and use of sources; will analyze works and contexts in the light of documents.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
the course will offer examples of the use of sources in a perspective of search, preparing students to organize and pursue a study and research project on History of art.

Know the main types of sources for historical-artistic research.
Knowing collections, archives, editions of sources useful for research. Understand and ability to evaluate the use of sources in the specific literature; acquire methodologies of approach and autonomy in use.
Acquire communication skills: presentation of the contents of the sources; of interpretative problems; analysis of artistic products in the light of sources.

The course should preferably be followed in the second year and it is desirable to have supported (or attended) at least the Ith module of medieval art history and / or of modern art history. Knowledge of Latin is useful but not essential. During the lessons the medieval Latin sources will be read and translated. We will mainly use edite sources. Therefore, it is not necessary to have paleography knowledge.

The course intends to present various types of sources: literary sources and chronicles, archive sources, iconographic sources.
After a general methodological introduction, concrete cases will be dealt with starting from the reading of edite sources that will allow a journey through medieval and modern art, studying goldsmithery, liturgical furniture, Venetian architecture and photography. Methodological themes will also be tackled: the tools of art historians, collections and collectibles, protomuseums, liturgical furnishings.
The topics will be the following:
1) TREASURES and ECCLESIASTIC FURNITURE.

The relics and liturgical furnishings of the church of San Marco through the inventories of the Marcian Treasure (1283 and 1325);
The 14th century inventories of the sacristy of the cathedral of Padua.

2) THE LAST WILL OF THE MERCHANT PIETRO VIONI, 1244

3) THE DUCAL PALACE OF VENICE

Sources for the fourteenth-century building site, the problem of Filippo Calendario, the iconographic sources relating to the building.

4) COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTIBLES

4.1 The list of Oliviero Forzetta (1335);

4.2 Venetian interiors, furniture and collections of paintings through inventories of XVIII century;

5) THE VENETIAN HOUSE by reading the inventories
5.1 The inventory of Marco degli Inzegneri (1367)
5.2 The Patrician house ( Sixteenth century)
5.3 Houses and palaces in the Venetian eighteenth century

6) BIOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST
Analysis of the documentation available to reconstruct the biographical data of an artist: birth records and
death in the parish archives, wills and inventories. The example of Francesco Pianta;

7) THE PHOTOTEQUES OF/AND FOR THE ART HISTORIANS

The Phototeque Archives of Antonio Morassi and Sergio Bettini.
The Phototeque of Soprintendenze.

The bibliography for this course (divided by themes) will be provided to the students at the beginning of the course.
Since there are no manuals or monographs that can be used, the main titles are proposed to students attending for further study.
Non-attending students can arrange the program with the Teacher: they will be able to choose (also based on the study address, medieval, modern or contemporary) among the topics available the topics being examined; the bibliography will be provided on the basis of the choice.
The analyzed sources and some texts will be made available to students on the MOODLE platform.

ORAL EXAMINATION. The interview will focus on some of the themes developed during the lessons, verifying (in addition to the acquisition of contents) above all the maturation of a critical spirit with respect to the sources and the literature that used them.

Reading of the sources in the classroom with commentary. Analysis of the contexts and materials recalled from the sources. The documents of the lessons and the illustrative powerpoints will be made available on the MOODLE platform as the course progresses.

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