- Docente: Sonia Cavicchioli
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-ART/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0345)
Learning outcomes
The course proposes to form for the students an adeguate knowledge of the base of the principle facts and crucial questions of art overall Italian from the 15th century to the end of the 18th century. In particular the ability to recognize essential technical methods that would allow the student to understand the work of art from the point of view of the style and the form, the iconography, technique and to comprehend the connections to the historical, social and cultural timeframe in which they were produced. At the end of the course the student should be familiar with the characteristic themes and particularities along with the ambitions of the artists of these centuries. The student should also recognize and be able to comment on the works of the most representative artists and movements.
Course contents
The program will be divided in two sections.
The General Program will cover the principal facts of Italian art from the beginning of the XVIth century to 1815, with the Congress of Vienna.
Students taking the 12 or 10 cfu exam should have the basical knowledge of the art history of the XVI, XVII and XVIII century. Students that will take the 6 or 5 cfu exam should have the basical knowledge of two centuries to be chosen among the XVI, XVII and XVIII century.
Monographical part: a theme of the art history between the XVI and the XVII century.
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching methods
The course will consist of lectures (enriched by Power Point displays) and guided visits. Visits to the Bolognese churches of San Giacomo, San Domenico, and to the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna will be held, as well as a visit to the Renaissance Palace of the Pio family in Carpi ( Modena ).
Assessment methods
Students should take a written and an oral exam.
Written exam
Students should recognize ten pictures (some of them will be taken from the suggested manuals) and write a synthetic comment concerning every one of the shown pictures, in order to prove their own capability of correctly interpreting art works. Written exam's propaedeutical for the oral exam.
Students that won't pass the written exam won't be allowed to take the exam another time within the same session.
Oral exam :
Students that will take the 12 cfu exam: The students will have to take an exhaustive conversation/discussion about two of the recommended books included in the bibliography, and about the bibliography of the monographical course.
Students that will take the 10 cfu exam: The students will have to take an exhaustive conversation/discussion about one of the recommended books included in the bibliography, and about the bibliography of the monographical course.
Students that will take the 5 or 6 cfu exam: The students will have to take an exhaustive conversation/discussion about the bibliography of the monographical course.
They will also have to prove their knowledge of the National Gallery of Bologna and of another important italian National Gallery (history of the collections, main groups and most important works of art).
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Sonia Cavicchioli