HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN COLLECTIONS

The course, considered as a core educational activity, aims to provide an advanced understanding of the notion of taste, but also methodological tools that allow the student to elaborate an analysis of collections and collectors, to know how to connect them to the various contexts, by detecting the theoretical, economic, social and political implications.

- knowledge and understanding: knowledge of terminology; knowledge of the main art collections during the period under examination;
- ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowledge of how to use a precise terminology, formulating an explanatory and argumentative exposure about artists' works and poetics;
- ability to understand: how to analyze the formation of an art collection among the studied ones, relating them to a correct temporal and cultural collocation; to be able to argue with property of language and correct formal analysis;
- communication skills: knowing how to use an appropriate and specific terminology, introduced and explained at lesson or on recommended texts and books; apply a good Italian syntax and grammar; being able to behave in a respectful and profitable way with professors and peers;
- learning skills: being able to understand how to connect an art collection to a specific cultural moment, making comparisons between different themes based on thematic, formal, socio-economic bases.

A good knowledge of art history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is desirable

The course focuses on the figures of art collecting in Venice during the XVIth century, commenting on a selection of case studies, in order to analyze the many aspects of the art market, the social dynamics and the construction mechanisms of the collections and the evolution of the taste. Particular attention is given to artistic lexicography and to the collector’s image examined through the sources, the portraiture and the representation of art collections.

Il collezionismo a Venezia e nel Veneto ai tempi della Serenissima, atti del convegno a cura di Bernard Aikema e Rosella Lauber, Venezia, Marsilio, 2005.
M. Hochmann, Marcantonio Michiel e la nascita della critica veneziana, in La pittura nel Veneto. Il Cinquecento, a cura di M. Lucco, 3 voll., Milano 1996-99, 3, pp. 1181-1202.
Il collezionismo d'arte a Venezia. Dalle origini al Cinquecento, a cura di M. Hohmann, R. Lauber, S. Mason, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.
Figure di collezionisti a Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento, a cura di L. Borean e S. Mason, Udine, Forum Editrice, 2002.

Students will present in class a research that will be the subject of collegial discussion. The research will be delivered to the teacher and it will be part of the following final evaluation process.

• Classroom Lecture: Presentation with Power Point (or other image viewer), 20/25 minutes. Participation (40%)
• Original research paper (60%). The paper must be delivered to the professor no later than 15 days before the examination, with oral discussion (60%).
Text max 20 pages (excluding Footnotes, Bibliography and Illustrations), times new roman 12; Space 1.5. Footnotes according to thesis standards. Illustrations at the end of the text, with list illustrations. Final Bibliography: Sources; Studies, in alphabetical order.

Lectures with projected images; papers and discussions; visit to monuments, exhibitions, and collections. Students will present in class a research that will be the subject of collegial discussion. The research will be delivered to the teacher and it will be part of the final evaluation process.

Italian

Given the nature of the course, attendance is strongly recommended. Students not attending, shall agree the syllabus with the teacher (by appointment).

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development