2018/2019

2019/2020

DM270

L-ART/01 (HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL ART)

DEPARTMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (23/09/2019 - 15/01/2020)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

BERNABO' MASSIMO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

A general knowledge of the history and cultures of the Middle Ages is required. Knowledge of the main characters and events of the Old and New Testament.

The role and purpose of images during the Middle Ages. Artistic cultures of Europe and Eastern Mediterranean.

Images as explanations of the Scriptures for the illiterate. Christian artists rendered into pictures the events and dogmas of the Scriptures, so that even the illiterate could be acquainted with the principles of the religion. The initial lessons of the course will discuss such a role of Christian images (icons) during the Middle Ages. At the turn of the Duecento a passage from a popular art to a learned art (Giotto) occurs. A number of lessons will deal with the contents and formation of the Bible (Hebrew and Christian). Stylistic or iconographical history of Medieval art.

Lessons by the teacher.

A. Grabar, Le vie della creazione nell’iconografia cristiana: Antichità e Medioevo (Milano: Jaca Book, 1999); reprinted as: Le vie dell'iconografia cristiana. Antichità e Medioevo, Milano, Jaca Book, 2011; original title: Le voies de la création en iconographie chrétienne: Antiquité et Moyen Age (Paris: Flammarion, 1994).
A good handbbok of Mediaeval art history.

Presentation of papers. Oral exam.
The final vote is based upon:
- discussion during the lessons;
- a written paper to be given to the teacher the last days of the course (senior students only);
- final oral exam.

Students are invited to provide the teacher (mbernabo@unipv.it), with an e-mail address. The teacher uses it for communications, sending material, etc. Questions, advices, information may be required to the teacher at the above e-mail address.