FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE II

Part of the core teaching in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management, the course is designed for students enrolled in the curricula "Art History" and "Archaeology". As a rule, the students enrolled in the curricula “Performative Arts” and “ Arts Management” cannot be admitted in this course: another one, with different program, is dedicated to them.

This teaching unit offers 6 credits and is the first part of a 12-credit course, together with "FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE, IIa" (FT0451-1). For registration reasons, it is not possible to take one module in the course for letters M-Z and another in the course for letters A-L. As a general rule, please attend the two modules to which each participant has been assigned* on the basis of her/his surname.

Further information about the registration and publication of the score will be provided in the "Notices" of the instructor's institutional web pages and during the first class.

- Knowledge and understanding of the main non-digital art techniques (painting, sculpture, grahics, basic elements of goldsmithery), their materials and processes.

- Understanding of the most common conservation problems raised by the art media discussed.

- Ability to properly use the vocabulary of art techniques and conservation.

- Ability to describe and compare the making process of artifacts and highlight its significance with respect to several disciplines.

The course is addressed to second-year students and gives for granted the notions that can be acquired in the first-year courses.

The course is held in Italian and in-person. It offers a survey on the art materials, techniques and procedures adopted for the creation of paintings (wall painting and on a movable stand), sculpture (in stone, metal, wood, ivory, wax, plaster, papier-mâché), drawings and prints. It will address significant examples of the relationship between media and forms of use, art materials and geographic-environmental factors, technical choices and formal preferences. Il will discuss exemplary cases of conservation and provide an introduction to the basics of its theory.

Reference readings (provisional)

- Sandro Baroni e Micaela Mander (a cura di), Tecniche dell'arte, Milano, Mursia 2021, volume I, pp. 9-46, 49-176, 189-219, 235-262, 302-338, 386-409; vol. II: pp. 67-106, 445-493; oppure: Corrado Maltese (a cura di), Le tecniche artistiche, Milano, Mursia 1973 (ed edizioni segg.), pp. 11-62, 137-165, 173-189, 195-198
- Alessandro Conti, Manuale di restauro, a cura di Marina Romiti Conti, Torino Einaudi 2001 (Einaudi 1996), pp. 24-41, 63-79 e 172-190
- Silvia Botticelli, Guido Botticelli, Lezioni di restauro: le pitture murali, Firenze 2008, pp. 13-46

The final exam consists of open-answer and closed-answer questions (closed-book form). They assess the students' understanding of the topics discussed in class and considered in the assigned readings. Plagiarism implies the immediate invalidation of the proof. Exchange of information with others is not allowed during the proof.

The final note is based 100% on the answers to the online quiz.

From academic yeear 2023-24, the acquisition of the knowledge and skills covered by the first module (Prof. Ventra) and the second module (Prof. Cupperi) will be verified by means of two tests (one per module). The tests will be held preferably on different days, but will be considered as a single examination with a single mark and only one possibility of acceptance (or rejection), relative to the overall mark. No partial marks that can be re-used in subsequent sessions will be provided any more: if a candidate does not appear for both examinations and does not successfully pass both, he/she will have to re-sit the examination. There will be four sessions per year.

Information on verbalization will be provided in the lecturer's personal "Notices", in the first lecture and on moodle.

Frontal teaching and additional materials made available on moodle (http://moodle.unive.it ).

Up-to-date information will be provided during the first class of the course. Non-attending students are strongly encouraged to refer to the pdf presentation for this lesson, which will be uploaded to the moodle platform and will provide them with information on the additional readings and test modes reserved for them.

Moodle’s blackboard is the official channel for every announcement concerning the organization of the course. All the participants are requested to sign in the moodle course.

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Version not final and subject to changes in compliance with the guidelines that the University may introduce before the start of the course. To supplement the syllabus, please see the moodle pages of the course.

Ca' Foscari applies the Italian laws for the support of students with disabilities or specific learning disorders. If you have a motor, visual, hearing disability, another impairment (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for taking exams or individualized exams, materials in accessible format, note retrieval, specialized tutoring to support study, interpreters, or other), please contact the Disability and DSA office (disabilita@unive.it) AND THE INSTRUCTOR BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS. In particular, those who are entitled to extended examination times or oral examinations are requested to inform the instructor at the beginning of the course so that room bookings can be adjusted in good time.

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