HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE
- Course code
- EM3E16 (AF:357816 AR:189408)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-ART/01
- Period
- 3rd Term
- Course year
- 1
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The course of this year is dedicated to the high-level artistic production in the Middle Ages, in order to achieve a double goal: to become aware of the preciousness (material and symbolic) of some of the most refined medieval works, and to plan some projects for the promotion and the dissemination of this rich artistic heritage.
Expected learning outcomes
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to be able to bring back the works of art and the artistic phenomena treated in class in the socio-cultural and spatial-temporal areas of belonging;
- Ability to judge: to be able to grasp the most significant aspects of each work of art, whether they belong to the formal, iconographic, iconological, symbolic, socio-cultural, aesthetic fields;
- Communication skills: knowing how to describe works of art and artistic phenomena treated in class using the specific terminology of the discipline; be able to express clearly, and grammatically correct, notions, reflections and concepts acquired during the lessons;
- Learning skills: at the end of the course the student must be able to provide a reading at the same time analytical and critical of the works of art and artistic phenomena treated, integrating the knowledge acquired during the lessons to read the texts indicated.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
1) Artistic production, techniques, materials
- CLAUSSEN Peter Cornelius, CURATOLA Giovanni, CUTLER Antony, s. v. 'Artista', in “Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale”, Rome, Treccani, II, 1991, pp. 546-554*.
- COLLARETA Marco, 'Oreficeria e tecniche orafe', in “Arti e Storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2 (“Del costruire: tecniche, artisti, artigiani, committenti”), E. Castelnuovo and G. Sergi ed., Turin,
Einaudi, 2003, pp. 549-559**.
- MONCIATTI Alessio, SEGRE MONTEL Costanza, 'Mosaico', in “Arti e Storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2, op. cit., pp. 522-549**.
- PACE Valentino, POLLIO Giorgia, 'Bronzo e arti della fusione', in “Arti e Storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2, op. cit., pp. 467-479**.
- POMIAN Krzysztof, s. v. 'Collezionismo', in “Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale”, op. cit., V, 1994, pp. 156-160*.
- TOMASI Michele, 'Avori', in “Arti e Storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2, op. cit., pp. 453-467**.
2) Other topics covered during the course ("Patronage of art", "The Survival of Antiquity", "The surviving and lost artistic heritage")
AN article OF YOUR CHOICE between:
- BRENK Beat, 'Committenza e retorica', in “Arti e storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2, op. cit., pp. 3-42.
- GANDOLFO Francesco, 'Cosa è giunto fino a noi. Distruzioni e perdite', in “Arti e storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 4 (“Il Medioevo al passato e al presente”), E. Castelnuovo and G. Sergi ed.,
Torino, Einaudi, 2004, pp. 33-76.
- FRANZONI Claudio, 'Presente del passato: le forme classiche nel Medioevo', in “Arti e Storia nel Medioevo”, vol. 2, op. cit., pp. 329-359.
* The entries of the Treccani Encyclopedia of Medieval Art are available online.
** Articles also available in "Medieval Arts and Techniques", F. Crivello ed., Turin, Einaudi, 2006.
3) Further reading
TWO articles OF YOUR CHOICE between:
- BERTELLI Carlo, 'Le arti suntuarie: prestigio sociale e tesaurizzazione', in “Storia di Ravenna” (vol. 2,2: “Ecclesiologia, cultura e arte”), D. Bolognesi ed., Venice, Marsilio, 1992, pp.
177-188.
- GAGETTI Elisabetta, 'Stoffe di pregio di tradizione orientale come modelli per la produzione suntuaria carolingia: il caso dei cammei vitrei monocromi della "Croce di Desiderio" a Brescia',
in “Arti minori e arti maggiori. Relazioni e interazioni tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo”, F. Bisconti, M. Braconi and M. Sgarlata ed., Todi, Tau, 2019, pp. 85-118.
- KALAVREZOU Ioli, 'Light and the precious object, or value in the eyes of the Byzantines', in “The construction of value in the ancient world”,J. K. Papadopoulos and G. Urton ed., Los
Angeles, Cotsten Inst. of Arch. Press, 2012, pp. 354-369.
- LIPINSKY Angelo, 'Oreficeria, argenteria e gioielleria nel tardo impero e nell’Alto Medio Evo: la Diversarum Artium Schedula di Theophilus presbyter et monachus', in “Corso di Cultura
sull’Arte Ravennate e Bizantina”, 11, 1964, pp. 255-332.
- MUTHESIUS Anna, 'Silk, culture and being in Byzantium: how far did precious cloth enrich "memory" and shape "culture" across the Empire (4th-15th centuries)?', in “Deltion tēs
Christianikēs Archaiologikēs Hetaireias”, 4, 36, 2015, pp. 345-362.
- PIAZZA Simone, 'L’Albero di Iesse nel XII secolo fra Occidente e Oriente: note sul perduto mosaico della basilica della Natività a Betlemme', in “Hortus artium medievalium”, 20, 2, 2014,
pp. 763-771.
- TOMASI Michele, 'Produzione e commercio nelle arti suntuarie a Venezia, 1250-1400', in "Fatto in Italia: dal Medioevo al Made in Italy", A. Guerrini ed., Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Silvana
editoriale, 2016, pp. 41-53.
Assessment methods
Teaching methods
Use of the Moodle multimedia platform, for the provision of documentary and illustrative materials in pdf format.
If, for health reasons, distance lessons become mandatory, the course will be delivered via Zoom, always with the support of documentary and illustrative material in Power Point (access can take place both in real time and through video-audio recordings).
Teaching language
Further information
Ca 'Foscari applies Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities or with specific learning disabilities. If you have a motor, visual, hearing or other disability (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and request support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out exams or exams individualized, accessible format material, notes retrieval, specialized tutoring to support the study, interpreters or other) contact the Disability and SLD office disabling@unive.it.