basic knowledge and capacity for historical contextualization of the problems related to the discipline; ability to understand and analyze critical language and related historiographical issues; ability to interpret texts and bibliographical research; acquisition of tools useful for focusing on the links between works of art and artistic debate; ability to elaborate and communicate oral issues related to the discipline
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Programme
Periodization. "Neoclassicism": is it possible to define the style of a century? The course proposes a renewed reading of the sources and critical debate of the Enlightenment century, intending to outline the history of artistic production starting from the lexicon used by contemporaries. The starting point is the exhibition organized in 1972 by scholars such as R. Rosemblum, H. Honor, D. Irwin, A. Blunt, J. Wilton-Ely, at the Art Council of Great Britain in London (The Age of Neoclassicism 1972), which marked a sort of watershed in art studies dedicated to the second half of the eighteenth century. The course includes visits to works and monuments in Rome.Core Documentation
Liliana Barroero, Le Arti e i Lumi. Pittura e scultura da Piranesi a Canova, Einaudi, Torino 2011Reference Bibliography
Guillaume Faroult, Le marble et le feu. La quête de la grandeur dans la peinture européenne, entre épure et enthousiamse (1747-1789), in L’Antiquité rêvée. Innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle, catalogo della mostra del Louvre, a cura di Guillaume Faroult, Christophe Leribault, Guilhem Scherf, Gallimard, Paris 2010, pp. 87-96 Hugh Honour, Neoclassicism, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1968; traduzione italiana: H. Honour, Neoclassicismo, Torino, Einaudi nel 1980 Robert Rosemblum, Trasformazioni nell’arte. Iconografia e stile tra Neoclassicismo e Romanticismo, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1984, e l'Introduzione al saggio di Rosemblum di Antonio Pinelli: pp. 21-36 Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Il secolo della ragione e delle rivoluzioni, UTET, Torino 2000, riedito con il titolo Le arti nel Settecento europeo, Einaudi, Torino 2009Type of delivery of the course
The course will take place accompanying the lectures with seminars that require the active participation of the studentsAttendance
Non-attending students will have to agree with the teacher two additional books listed in the "Bibliography" to be able to take the oral examType of evaluation
The oral examination is preceded by the evaluation of a written project to be discussed orally on works of painting or sculpture; the work will have to focus on the critical lexicon used by the sources of the time to describe the style