2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

L-ART/02 (HISTORY OF MODERN ART)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Storia dell'arte medievale, moderna e contemporanea

1°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

VISIOLI MONICA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of the most important Italian artists of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century and their works. Knowledge of the specific terminology of the history of art.

The lessons will illustrate and make understood the different languages of the Italian Renaissance art, far from the capitals as Rome, Florence and Venice. He also intends to teach to understand and appreciate the specificity of pictorial languages ​​born in peripheral areas and to identify the polemical answer to classical Renaissance models.

The course will examine the production of so-called "anti-classical" and eccentric painters in Brescia, Cremona and Bergamo during the Renaissance. Starting from Roberto Longhi (1917, 1934), the origin of the concept of anti-classicism will be considered as a polemical and alternative attitude towards the language of Raffaello, Leonardo , Giorgione and Titian. The phenomenon, whose dimensions was expanded after Longhi , involving artists from all over the peninsula, will be investigated only for the area between the Duchy of Milan and the venetian mainland, focusing in particular on the works of : Altobello Melone, Gianfrancesco Bembo, Romanino, Pordenone and Lotto.

Lectures about the historical period and artistic context of the cities where the painters worked; analysis of the works and than guided tours to Cremona, or Brescia, or Bergamo.

Bibliography;
• Romanino e i pittori anticlassici. Una mostra diffusa in Lombardia : Cremona, Brescia, Bergamo, Mantova, catalogo della mostra, 15 ottobre 2010-30 giugno 2011, Roccafranca (BS), Compagnia della Stampa Massetti Rodella Editori, 2010
• Antonio Pinelli, La stagione dello sperimentalismo e della disarmonia, in Idem, La bella Maniera. Artisti del Cinquecento tra regola e licenza, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 1993 (o edizioni successive)
• Francesco Frangi, I pittori anticlassici, in Pittura a Cremona dal Romanico al Settecento, a cura di M. Gregori, Cariplo, Cinisello Balsamo (Mi) 1990, pp. 26-39 e relative schede dei dipinti.
• Romanino. Un pittore in rivolta nel Rinascimento italiano, catalogo della mostra Trento 29 luglio- 29 ottobre 2006, a cura di L. Camerlengo, E. Chini, F. Frangi, F. De Gramatica, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2006

Furtherinformations and bibliographical references will be provided during the lessons

The student will be asked to speask about the works analyzed during the lessons and place them within the artist's production, referring to the historical-artistic context. Exercise to be agreed upon with the teacher.