The course aims to give students an advanced knowledge of the discipline and exercise the skills of students to contextualize the critical sources deepening the methodological aspects and gender.
Students will be directly involved in workshops to applying the acquired knowledge in the analysis of specific themes and periods, the critical lexicon; the figures of Italian, European and non-European critics, and to improve the skills about methods and the understanding of stylistic and cultural contexts.
Students will be directly involved in workshops to applying the acquired knowledge in the analysis of specific themes and periods, the critical lexicon; the figures of Italian, European and non-European critics, and to improve the skills about methods and the understanding of stylistic and cultural contexts.
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The theme of the course is the analysis of a specific genre of literary source: the artistic epistolography, whose typology was codified in 1754 by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari emphasizing the potentiality of a useful tool to reconstruct the links between the works, the authors, the patrons and functional to the study of the circulation of the works and of the practice of connoisseurship.
During the course the use of artist's letters by the historiography of art, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will be discussed, also in a seminar format, as a tool for constructing the artist's biography, but also as a source of the words of the practice. The letters allow to establish a stingent analysis on current artistic practices: a potential tool for the study and analysis of the circulation and translation of technical vocabulary and art practice in an international context such as that of the second half of the eighteenth century and the first three decades of the nineteenth century.
G. Perini, Le lettere degli artisti da strumento di comunicazione, a documento, a cimelio, in Documentary culture. Florence and Rome from Grand-Duke Ferdinando I to Pope Alexander VII, papera from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence. 1990, a cura di E. Cropper, G. Perini, F. Solinas, Bologna 1992, pp. 165-184
S. Rolfi Ozvald, Sul carteggio d'artista, in Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ozvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 10-25
C. Mazzarelli, Dalla lettere all'autobiografia d'artista: raccontarsi a Roma tra idea e realtà dell'esperire, in Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ozvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 52-69
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS EXAM PROGRAM
MANDATORY readings in addition:
Rolfi Ožvald, Oy-Marra, Susanna Pasquali, Carla Mazzarelli, in “Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo”, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ožvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 6-69
Lettere d’artista. Corrispondenze tra Roma e l’Europa dall’età dei Lumi alla Restaurazione, a cura di Giovanna Capitelli e Serenella Rolfi Ožvald, «Ricerche di storia dell’arte» 125, 2018
Programme
Artistic epistolography: the artist's correspondence and its historiographical traditionThe theme of the course is the analysis of a specific genre of literary source: the artistic epistolography, whose typology was codified in 1754 by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari emphasizing the potentiality of a useful tool to reconstruct the links between the works, the authors, the patrons and functional to the study of the circulation of the works and of the practice of connoisseurship.
During the course the use of artist's letters by the historiography of art, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will be discussed, also in a seminar format, as a tool for constructing the artist's biography, but also as a source of the words of the practice. The letters allow to establish a stingent analysis on current artistic practices: a potential tool for the study and analysis of the circulation and translation of technical vocabulary and art practice in an international context such as that of the second half of the eighteenth century and the first three decades of the nineteenth century.
Core Documentation
P. Barocchi, Fortuna dell'epistolografia artistica, in Studi vasariani, Torino, Einaudi, 1987, pp. 83-111G. Perini, Le lettere degli artisti da strumento di comunicazione, a documento, a cimelio, in Documentary culture. Florence and Rome from Grand-Duke Ferdinando I to Pope Alexander VII, papera from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence. 1990, a cura di E. Cropper, G. Perini, F. Solinas, Bologna 1992, pp. 165-184
S. Rolfi Ozvald, Sul carteggio d'artista, in Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ozvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 10-25
C. Mazzarelli, Dalla lettere all'autobiografia d'artista: raccontarsi a Roma tra idea e realtà dell'esperire, in Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ozvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 52-69
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS EXAM PROGRAM
MANDATORY readings in addition:
Rolfi Ožvald, Oy-Marra, Susanna Pasquali, Carla Mazzarelli, in “Il carteggio d'artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo”, a cura di C. Mazzarelli e S. Rolfi Ožvald, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2019, pp. 6-69
Lettere d’artista. Corrispondenze tra Roma e l’Europa dall’età dei Lumi alla Restaurazione, a cura di Giovanna Capitelli e Serenella Rolfi Ožvald, «Ricerche di storia dell’arte» 125, 2018
Reference Bibliography
DURING THE COURSE WILL BE PROVIDED A DOSSIER OF REFERENCES THAT STUDENTS BE FOUND IN THE "BACHECA DEL DOCENTE". D. Roche, Les Républicains des lettres: gens de culture et Lumières au XVIIIe siècle, Fayard, Paris, 1988 J. House, Working with Artists’ Letters, in «World & Image», 28, 2012, 4, pp. 335-339 C. Fosse, L. Lerichomme, Correspondances d'artiste: du brouillon à la lettre ouverte, Le Mot et le reste, Marseille 2012Type of delivery of the course
Lectures; Workshops; site visits.Attendance
Course attendance is strongly recommended but not mandatory. Students who cannot attend lessons to take the exam must follow what is indicated in the reference texts for the exam for "students not attending"Type of evaluation
Oral exam at the end of the lessons, by a vote of thirty and eventual laude. The threshold for passing the exam is set at 18/30. Voting below 18 be equivalent to insufficient evaluation of learning