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HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART

Francesca DELL'ACQUA HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART

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DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
EQF7
ART HISTORY AND CRITICISM
2019/2020

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016
SECONDO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
945LESSONS
FRANCESCA DELL'ACQUA T Curriculum
Objectives
THIS MODULE AIMS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH HISTORICAL-CRITICAL INSTRUMENTS TO UNDERTAKE THE ANALYSIS OF ARTEFACTS AS ELEMENTS OF HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD. A TECHNICAL AND FORMAL ANALYSIS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL FRAMEWORK, WITH REFERENCE TO EXISTING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF OVERCOMING IT.
WHERE EXISTING, CONTEMPORARY WRITTEN SOURCES, EVEN IF NOT STRICTLY RELATED, WILL BE CONSIDERED IN ORDER TO BETTER CONTEXTUALIZE THE VALUE OF MEDIEVAL ARTEFACTS WITHIN BROADER SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES.
AT THE END OF THE MODULE, THE STUDENT SHOULD HAVE ACQUIRED A CERTAIN AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAIN CENTERS OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTION AND OF THE QUESTION OF ARTISTIC PATRONAGE; THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE WORKS AND ANALYSE THEM FROM A HISTORICAL, STYLISTIC, ICONOGRAPHIC, AND TECHNICAL-MATERIAL POINT OF VIEW; THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAIN CRITICAL-METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE DISCIPLINE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY; A CRITICAL POSITION TOWARDS SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS.


Prerequisites
IT IS ADVISED TO HAVE A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ORDER TO ACCESS RELEVANT BIBLIOGRAPHY IF NEEDED
Contents
THE MODULE WILL BE FOCUSSED ON THE TOPIC: BETWEEN EVE AND MARY. FOOLISHNESS AND WISDOM IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD. THROUGH IMAGES OF VARIOUS KINDS – MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL (TEXTUAL, LITURGICAL) – WE WILL EXPLORE HOW EVE AND MARY BECAME EMBLEMATIC OF OPPOSITE MORAL CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS FOOLISHNESS AND WISDOM. WE WILL EXAMINE WITNESSES FROM THE LATE-ANTIQUE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, THE BRITISH ISLES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, GERMANY AROUND YEAR 1000, TO THE LATE MEDIEVAL FLORENCE. OUR AIM IS TO RETRACE HOW THE VIRGIN MARY CAME TO EMBLEMATISE THE DIVINE WISDOM, AND EVEN SOCIAL SOLIDARITY IN THE FLORENTINE REPUBLIC. WE WILL COME ACROSS METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES SUCH AS GENDER STUDIES AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD, MATERIAL CULTURE AS A SCHOLARLY DISCIPLINE, THE CIRCULATION OF CONCEPTS AND IMAGES.
Teaching Methods
LECTURES IN THE CLASSROOM SUPPORTED WITH POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS. EVENTUAL, ONE-DAY VISIT TO ROME OR FLORENCE (SELF-SPONSORED)
Verification of learning
THE ACQUISITION OF SPECIALIST COMPETENCES INHERENT TO THE ANALYSIS OF THEMES DEALT WITH OVER THE MODULE WITHIN SPECIFIC HISTORICAL CONTEXTS WILL BE VERIFIED THROUGH A WRITTEN ASSESSMENT DURING THE MODULE AND A FINAL ORAL EXAMINATION. THE WRITTEN ASSESSMENT, TO BE COMPLETED AT HOME, WILL BE CENTRED ON THE ANALYSIS OF AN EXAMPLE PREVIOUSLY AGREED WITH THE LECTURER.
Texts
A. CAMERON, ‘INTRODUCTION. THE MOTHER OF GOD IN BYZANTIUM: RELICS, ICONS, TEXTS’, IN L. BRUBAKER, M. CUNNINGHAM, THE CULT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD IN BYZANTIUM. TEXTS AND IMAGES (FARNHAM, 2011), 1-5. (PDF)

M. BARKER, ‘WISDOM IMAGERY AND THE MOTHER OF GOD, IN L. BRUBAKER, M. CUNNINGHAM, THE CULT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD IN BYZANTIUM. TEXTS AND IMAGES (FARNHAM, 2011), 91-108. (PDF)

R. CORMACK, ‘THE MOTHER OF GOD IN THE MOSAICS OF HAGIA SOPHIA AT CONSTANTINOPLE,’ IN MOTHER OF GOD. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE VIRGIN IN BYZANTINE ART, ED. M. VASSILAKI (MILANO, 2000), 107–23. (PDF)

A. DERBES, M. SANDONA, ‘"AVE CHARITATE PLENA": VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF CHARITY IN THE ARENA CHAPEL’, SPECULUM 76. 3 (2001), 599-637. (PDF)

H. MAGUIRE, ‘ENCOUNTER. REFLECTIONS ON THE WALL MOSAICS IN THE EUFRASIANA’, GESTA 56.2 (2017), 129-32.


OPTIONAL READINGS

DASKAS, B., ‘NOTA SULLA THEOTÓKOS DESCRITTA DA FOZIO, HOM. XVII 2 (P. 167.14–17 LAOURDAS),’ ACME. ANNALI DELLA FACOLTÀ DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA DELL'UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO 64.2 (2011): 339–51.(PDF)

C. LA ROCCA, ‘CONSORS REGNI: A PROBLEM OF GENDER? THE CONSORTIUM BETWEEN AMALASUNTHA AND THEODAHAD IN 534’, IN GENDER AND HISTORIOGRAPHY. STUDIES IN THE EARLIER MIDDLE AGES IN HONOUR OF PAULINE STAFFORD, EDS. J.L. NELSON ET AL. (LONDRA, 2012), 127-143 (PDF)

C. LA ROCCA, ‘LA MIGRAZIONE DELLE DONNE NELL'ALTO MEDIOEVO TRA TESTI SCRITTI E FONTI MATERIALI: PRIMI SPUNTI DI RICERCA’, IN ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA DELLE MIGRAZIONI. EUROPA, ITALIA, MEDITERRANEO FRA TARDA ETÀ ROMANA E ALTO MEDIOEVO. ATTI DEL CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI. CIMITILE-SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE, 17-18 GIUGNO 2010. GIORNATE SULLA TARDA ANTICHITÀ E IL MEDIOEVO (3) A CURA DI C. EBANISTA, M. ROTILI (CIMITILE, 2011), 65-83 (PDF)

W. R. LEVIN, ‘ADVERTISING CHARITY IN THE TRECENTO: THE PUBLIC DECORATIONS OF THE MISERICORDIA IN FLORENCE’, STUDIES IN ICONOGRAPHY 17 (1996), 215-309 (JSTOR)


OTHERS WILL BE SUGGESTED IF NEEDED
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THE MONOGRAPHIC PART OF THE MODULE WILL BE FOCUSSED ON THE TOPIC: BETWEEN EVE AND MARY. FOOLISHNESS AND WISDOM IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
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