HISTORY OF THE ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES

The teaching is one of the compulsory courses of the three-year degree in Sciences and technologies of cultural heritage and aims to provide students with the basic notions on the main artistic techniques used between the Middle Ages and the contemporary. Lessons will take place in the first semester of the first academic year precisely to provide new students with the first historical-artistic notions related to the materiality of cultural heritage and their historical-artistic context, in view of their conservation and enhancement.

- knowledge and understanding: knowing the basic terminology of the subject; know the main artists and works of art that will be carried out in the program;
- ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowing how to use the reference terminology
- communication skills: knowing how to use adequate and specific terminology, introduced and explained in lectures or in the reference texts;
- know how to interact respectfully and profitably with teachers and colleagues.

None (although it is desirable to have a basic knowledge of the Italian and international historical context between the 13th and 20th centuries).

The course aims to provide the basic tools for the knowledge of the main artistic techniques through the study of the sources and direct observation of exemplary cases. The educational path provides that students acquire the ability to critically reason on the material component of different works of art, also recognizing their iconography and historical-stylistic context. Particular attention will be paid to Italian painting practices with two focuses, one on Venetian painting of Renaissance and the other on sculpture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

General part, chapters chosen by:

F. Negri Arnoldi, Il mestiere dell’arte. Introduzione alla Storia delle Tecniche Artistiche, Napoli 2007.
S. Rinaldi, Storia tecnica dell’arte. Materiali e metodi della pittura e della scultura, Roma 2011 (o II ediz. 2012).
Le tecniche artistiche, a cura di C. Maltese, Milano (varie edizioni dal 1973 al 2019).

Supplementary materials: other readings will be suggested during the course.

Written exam aimed at verifying the theoretical knowledge acquired during the course. At the end of the course, the student must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the operational and material peculiarities that distinguish one artistic technique from another and must be able to critically reason the case studies proposed during the course.

Lectures, lessons in museums and other historical sites, comparisons and interactions with students.

Italian

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE COURSE COULD CHANGE AS A RESULT OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC.

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