HISTORY OF BYZANTINE ART (ADVANCED COURSE)
- Academic year
- 2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELL'ARTE BIZANTINA SP.
- Course code
- FM0210 (AF:467195 AR:249861)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-ART/01
- Period
- 3rd Term
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
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
° For an introduction to the St. Mark's Basilica and to the churches of Torcello:
- ZULIANI, Fulvio, San Marco a Venezia, in “Veneto romanico”, edited by Fulvio Zuliani, Milano, Jaca Book, 2008, pp. 35-65.
- TREVISAN Gianpaolo, Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Fosca, in “Veneto romanico”, edited by Fulvio Zuliani, Milano, Jaca Book, 2008, pp. 67-89.
° For an overview of the wall mosaics of the northern Adriatic between the 11th and 13th centuries:
- Rizzardi, Clementina, Mosaici altoadriatici: il rapporto artistico Venezia-Bisanzio-Ravenna in età medievale, Ravenna, Edizioni del Girasole, 1985.
° For the identification of subjects and inscriptions in the mosaic decoration of San Marco:
- VIO Ettore, DA VILLA URBANI Maria, Il repertorio iconografico e le iscrizioni, in “San Marco, basilica patriarcale in Venezia. I mosaici, le iscrizioni, la Pala d’oro, Milano, Fabbri, 1991 pp. 17-215.
° On Tesoro of San Marco and the Pala d’Oro:
- VOLBACH, Fritz W., Opere antiche, tardo-antiche e protobizantine, in “Il tesoro di San Marco”, a cura di H. R. Hahnloser, vol. 2 (“Il tesoro e il museo”), Firenze, Sansoni, 1971, pp. 1-11.
- GRABAR, André, Opere bizantine, in “Il tesoro di San Marco”, a cura di H. R. Hahnloser, vol. 2 (“Il tesoro e il museo”), Firenze, Sansoni, 1971, pp. 13-97.
- POLACCO, Renato, La pala d’oro, in “San Marco: basilica patriarcale in Venezia. I mosaici, le iscrizioni, la pala d’oro”, a cura di M. Andaloro et alii, Milano, Fabbri, 1991, pp. 227-238.
° For the preparation for the exam, in addition to the texts listed above, the reading of ONE essay chosen from the following is required:
- ANDREESCU-TREADGOLD, Irina, L’ingresso a San Marco nell’XI secolo: i primi mosaici del Portal Grande, in “San Marco, la Basilica di Venezia: arte, storia, conservazione”, a cura di Ettore Vio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019, I, pp. 249-270.
- BARSANTI, Claudia, PILUTTI NAMER, Myriam, Da Costantinopoli a Venezia: nuove spoglie della chiesa di S. Polieucto; nota preliminare, in “Néa Róme”, 6, 2009, pp. 133-156.
- BEVILACQUA, Livia, Le porte ageminate bizantine della basilica, in “San Marco, la Basilica di Venezia: arte, storia, conservazione”, a cura di Ettore Vio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019, II, pp. 105-116.
- LAZZARINI, Lorenzo, I marmi dell’edicola nota come “capitello del Crocifisso”, in “San Marco, la Basilica di Venezia: arte, storia, conservazione”, a cura di Ettore Vio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019, I, pp. 177-188.
- MINGUZZI, Simonetta, Lastre scolpite in San Marco: riflessioni sui plutei delle gallerie, in “San Marco, la Basilica di Venezia: arte, storia, conservazione”, a cura di Ettore Vio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019, II, pp. 21-26.
- PIAZZA, Simone, Mosaici d’oro nelle chiese di Venezia. Luci sull’ingente patrimonio perduto, in "Convivium", VII, 1, 2020, pp. 54-79.
- RICHARDSON, Joan, Elementi bizantini nell'architettura delle chiese di San Marco, di Santa Fosca di Torcello e del duomo di Jesolo, in “Storia dell’arte marciana”, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 11-14 ottobre 1994, a cura di Renato Polacco, Venezia, Marsilio, 1997, vol. 1 (“Architettura”), pp. 176-183.
- SINDING-LARSEN, Staale, A walk with Otto Demus: the mosaics of San Marco, Venice, and arthistorical analysis, in “Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia”, 8, 1992, pp. 145-205.
- TIGLER, Guido, I pilastri "acritani": genesi dell’equivoco, in "Florilegium artium. Scritti in memoria di Renato Polacco", a cura di Giordana Trovabene, Padova, Il Poligrafo, 2006, pp. 161-172.
° For specific themes and works of art, other bibliographic references can be reported during the lessons. The texts cited that should be untraceable will be provided in pdf format.
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 the 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 (assistance in the classroom, 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.