2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

L-ART/01 (HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL ART)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE MODERNE

3°

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

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

LASKARIS CATERINA ZAIRA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

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The course will give students the methodological tools and basic notions concerning the materials, working processes and conservation-related aspects for a technical approach to artworks.

After a methodological introduction to the study of artistic techniques, the main pictorial and sculptural techniques (mural painting, painting on panel and canvas, manuscript illumination, mosaic, sculpture in wood, stone, bronze, clay) will be examined through the historical and scientific information given by written and material sources

Lectures and guided visits to sites of artistic significance

- C. Maltese (ed.), Le tecniche artistiche, Milano, Mursia, 1973
- S. Rinaldi, Storia tecnica dell'arte. Materiali e metodi della pittura e della scultura, Roma, Carocci, 2011
C. Cennini, Il libro dell'arte, F. Frezzato (ed.), Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2003
- G. Vasari, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori..., Introduzione, ed. 1550, L. Bellosi - A. Rossi (eds.), Torino, Einaudi, 1986
- M. Papini, La cornice, in C. Maltese (ed.), Preparazione e finitura delle opere pittoriche, Milano, Mursia, 1993
- C.Z. Laskaris, Trattati tecnici per le arti, in E. Villata (ed.), L'arte rinascimentale nel contesto, Milano, Jaca Book, 2015, pp. 101-116
- C.Z. Laskaris, Grammatiche della percezione, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2017

Oral examinations

Further details about the reading list useful for the examination will be given during the lessons. The images shown during the lessons will be available at the end of the course