MODERN ART

This module constitutes the first part of a 12-ECTS course (Modern and contemporary art) and develops a specific subject within the wider art historical research area of the curriculum. You will acquire more advanced notions – hopefully building upon what you previously learned – and competences in order to: understand the artistic and cultural context of Venice and the Veneto region, particularly in the early modern age (16th century/18th century); b) recognise it critically within the extended framework of Italian and international cultural heritage. The module’s historical background (the Renaissance) is particularly relevant to the recent lively debate on its impact on and persistence in our contemporary cultural and entrepreneurial context (Entrepreneurial Renaissance).

Notions
Advanced knowledge of the articulated stratifications and inner dynamics of art history, with a focus on the protagonists of the Renaissance and on the role of the artwork as a response to a cultural need.
Skills
State-of-the art critical vocabulary that will allow you to develop complex argumentations, as well as analyse and assess different context, figures and artworks (philology of the visual sign, iconography, inferential criticism and cultural studies).
Competences
Capacity to identify and define contexts and periods for the management of permanent and temporary exhibitions; connecting the outstanding elements of an art-historical tradition to the current evolution of a territory by combining humanities, economics and management; establishing original connections between the “modernity” of the Renaissance and contemporary challenges.

Adequate knowledge of Italian art history and in particular of the Renaissance era.

The phenomenon of the Venetian villas characterised for at least four centuries a distinctive strategy of land use; it defined models that would rapidly gain effective exportability; it established peculiar relationships between landscape, architecture and pictorial and plastic decoration; it fixed a 'narrative' that has had multiple interpreters and plural modes of expression over the centuries, from literature to photography, from historical-artistic investigations to new perspectives of multimedia valorisation.

Lecture notes;
Giuseppe Barbieri, Ville venete: cronistoria di una riscoperta, in Id., Ville venete. Un nuovo sguardo, Crocetta del Montello (TV), Terra Ferma, 2013, pp.17-75;
Margherita Naim, Le Ville Venete: il contributo di Giuseppe Mazzotti, ivi, pp. 77-87;
Giuseppe Barbieri, «Il resto del tempo si passerà in vedere…»: Ville Venete 2.0, ivi, pp. 89-97;
Giuseppe Barbieri, Logiche e codici narrative nelle ville venete, in Id., Dentro le ville venete. Un nuovo sguardo, Crocetta del Montello (TV), Terra Ferma, 2014, pp.15-90;
Elettra Morlin, Metamorfosi in villa, ivi, pp. 93-107;
Massimo Bergamasco, Marcello Carrozzino, Chiara Evangelista, Le ville venete come information landscape, ivi, pp. 109-117;
Giuseppe Barbieri, Garden Storytelling. Il giardino della villa veneta come racconto, in Id., I Giardini delle ville venete. Un nuovo sguardo, Crocetta del Montello (TV), Terra Ferma, 2015, pp. 14-99.
Indications about additional sources will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Written examination with few open questions. Eventual participation in seminars will also be assessed.

Classroom teaching and group seminar activities (proposed based on the number of attendees).

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