VENETIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY – 1 FROM THE ORIGINS OF VENICE TO THE BIENNALE
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- VENETIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY – 1 FROM THE ORIGINS OF VENICE TO THE BIENNALE
- Course code
- SIE065 (AF:366676 AR:195242)
- Modality
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Corso di Perfezionamento
- Educational sector code
- NN
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
- to describe and compare works of Architecture, Painting and Sculpture and archaeological sites;
- to set them in their historical context and within the development of the History of European Art and Archaeology.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
G. ORTALLI, G. SCARABELLO, A short history of Venice, Venezia, Pacini editore 1999 (available on Moodle).
Further reading:
ARCHAEOLOGY (ORIGINS OF VENICE)
Albert J. Ammerman, Venice before the Grand Canal, “Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome”, 48.2003(2004), pp. 141-156 [Ammerman 2003]
MEDIEVAL AND BYZANTINE ART
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Venice and Torcello: history and oblivion, “Renaissance Studies”, Vol. 8, No. 4, Venice and the Veneto (DECEMBER 1994), pp. 416-427 [Crouzet Pavan 1994]
Armin F. Bergmeier, THE PRODUCTION OF EX NOVO SPOLIA AND THE CREATION OF HISTORY IN THIRTEENTHCENTURY VENICE, “Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz”, 62. Bd., H. 2/3 (2020), pp. 127-157 [Bergmeier 2020]
Maria Georgopoulou, Late Medieval Crete and Venice: An Appropriation of Byzantine Heritage, “The Art Bulletin”, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 479-49 [Georgopoulou 1995]
Stefania Gerevini, Art as Politics in the Baptistery and Chapel of Sant’Isidoro at San Marco, Venice, “Dumbarton Oaks Papers”, 2020, Vol. 74 (2020), pp. 243-268 [Gerevini 2020]
RENAISSANCE ART
Hans Belting, St. Jerome in Venice: Giovanni Bellini and the Dream of Solitary Life, “I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance”, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 5-33 [Belting 2014]
Richard Mackenney, Public and private in Renaissance Venice, “Renaissance Studies”, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1998), pp. 109-130 [Mackenney 1998]
Louisa C. Matthew, The Painter's Presence: Signatures in Venetian Renaissance Pictures, “The Art Bulletin”, Vol. 80, No. 4, Dec. 1998, pp. 616-648 [Matthew 1998]
Claudia Kryza-Gersch, Confusing Signatures on Bronzes: Sculptor and Caster in Renaissance Venice, “Artibus et Historiae”, Vol. 38, No. 76, Studies in Renaissance Art and Culture in Honour of Debra Pincus (2017), pp. 95-112 [Kryza-Gersch 2017]
VENETIAN ART (17TH-19TH CENTURY)
Catherine Whistler, Life Drawing in Venice from Titian to Tiepolo, Master Drawings, Vol. 42, No. 4, Venetian Drawings (Winter, 2004), pp. 370-396 [Whistler 2004]
Rolf Bagemihl, Pietro Longhi and Venetian Life, “Metropolitan Museum Journal”, 1988, Vol. 23 (1988), pp. 233-247 [Bagemihl 1988]
Katharine Baetjer, "Canaletti Painting": On Turner, Canaletto, and Venice, “Metropolitan Museum Journal”, 2007, Vol. 42, 2007, pp. 163-172, 16-17 [Baetjer 2007]
ART CRITICS
David Mannings, Reynolds in Venice, “The Burlington Magazine”, Vol. 148, No. 1244, Art in Venice and the Veneto (Nov., 2006), pp. 754-763 [Mannings 2006]
THE MYTH OF VENICE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
James H. Johnson , The Myth of Venice in Nineteenth-Century Opera, “The Journal of Interdisciplinary History”, Winter, 2006, Vol. 36, No. 3, Opera and Society: Part I (Winter, 2006), pp. 533-554 [Johnson 2006]
Des O'Rawe, Venice in Film: the Postcard and the Palimpsest, “Literature/Film Quarterly”, 2005, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2005), pp. 224-232 [O’Rawe 2005]
Myriam Pilutti Namer, Spolia and Memory in Nineteenth-Century Venice, in F. Sabaté (ed), Memory in the Middle Ages: Approaches from Southwestern Europe, LLeida 2020, pp. 302-312 [Pilutti Namer 2020]
CLIMATE CHANGE
Fabio Trincardi et alii, The 1966 Flooding of Venice: WHAT TIME TAUGHT US FOR THE FUTURE, “Oceanography”, Vol. 29, No. 4, Special Issue on Ocean-Ice Interaction (DECEMBER 2016), pp. 178-186 [Trincardi et alii 2016]
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Teaching methods
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