ARTISTIC LITERATURE
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Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-ART/04 (MUSEOLOGY AND ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Curriculum
Archeologia classica
Year of study
Period
1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
VISIOLI MONICA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the Italian Art from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth one. Knowledge of the Italian Literature from the fourteenth century to the sixteenthone . Students are advised to study the suggested subjects only after passing the Modern History of Art examination.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of the most meaning-ful literature sources of the Modern Art History, having great care at the artist's biography and autobiography in the modern age.
Course contents
The course will consider the main works of the Italian Art Literature and Theory from the fourteenth century to the eiugteenth one, having great care to the artist's biography and autobiography during the modern age. (Vasari, Cellini, Bellori)
Teaching methods
Lectures during which the literary and historiographical texts will be read and commented in relation to works of art.
Reccomended or required readings
J. Schlosser, La letteratura artistica, ed. Firenze 1996, libri II, III, V, VI; E. Pommier, L’invenzione dell’arte nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Torino 2007, capp. I, II, III, XII, XIII; M. Visioli, Presentazione a La biografia d'artista tra arte e letteratura. Seminari di letteratura artistica, Ed. Santa Caterina, Pavia 2015.

Asked readings:
Dante, Purgatorio XI, Oderisi da Gubbio e Franco Bolognese, Cimabue e Giotto
Boccaccio, Decamerone, VI giornata, Messer Forese da Ribatta e maestro Giotto dipintore
Filippo Villani, Liber de origine civitatis Florentiae, Giotto e i suoi seguaci
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario secondo
Bartolomeo Facio, De viris illustribus, 1456. Sui pittori

Leon Battista Alberti, Della pitura, Dedica a Filippo Brunelleschi;
“ “ Libro secondo
Antonio Averlino detto il Filerete, Trattato di architettura, a cura di A. M. Finoli, L. Grassi, Milano 1972, vol. I, pp. 23-25, 29-30 e 40.
Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria, Prologo
Leonardo da Vinci, Libro di pittura ( codice Urbinate lat. 1270), a cura di C. Perdetti. Paragrafi 14, 33, 36, 47.

Libro di Antonio Billi, a cura di Fabio Benedettucci , Michelangelo
Anonimo della Magliabechiana, Michelangelo
Paolo Giovio, Vita di Michelangelo
Michelangelo, Lettera a M. Benedetto Varchi

Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite
Proemio di tutta l’opera
Proemio delle Vite di Raffaelo e Michelangelo
Dalla vita di Giorgio Vasari (ed. 1568), la cena a casa del cardinal Farnese (1546).
Benvenuto Cellini, Vita (brani scelti)
Giovan Pietro Bellori,
Da Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti moderni, 1672
Proemio della Vita di Annibale Carracci pittore bolognese
Vita di Michelangelo Merigi da Caravaggio
Luigi Lanzi, Da Storia pittorica della Italia: Prefazione
Assessment methods
Students must be able to discuss an argument agreed with the Professor and be able to comment on the texts read during the course.
Further information
Students must be able to discuss an argument agreed with the Professor and be able to comment on the texts read during the course.
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