The aim of the course is to give at the student the basic knowledge of the history of collecting and Museology from both a historical excursus and on the point of view of the cultural Heritage. The course also intends to pay particular attention to the history of the formation of museum institutions between the age of Enlightenment and the birth of modern states. Students will be involved directly in exercises aimed to developing both skills in tradimento historical-critical contexts and ability to read a work of art preserved in museum institutions
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The course will examine the major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections, from the Borghese to the Colonna, from the Rospigliosi to the Doria Pamphilj, and follow their development and eventual dispersal patterns.
(a) M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milan, Mondadori, 2011, or A. MacGregor., Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007.
(b) a selection of texts that will be communicated during the course (and updated here by December 2024), such as F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell'arte italiana, Parte terza, vol. III, Einaudi, Torino, 1981, pp. 5-35.
(c) teaching materials (ppt and selection of primary and secondary sources).
Programme
Rome's great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections: formation and dispersion.The course will examine the major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections, from the Borghese to the Colonna, from the Rospigliosi to the Doria Pamphilj, and follow their development and eventual dispersal patterns.
Core Documentation
To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he or she has critically studied the following texts:(a) M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milan, Mondadori, 2011, or A. MacGregor., Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007.
(b) a selection of texts that will be communicated during the course (and updated here by December 2024), such as F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell'arte italiana, Parte terza, vol. III, Einaudi, Torino, 1981, pp. 5-35.
(c) teaching materials (ppt and selection of primary and secondary sources).
Reference Bibliography
The reference bibliography will be communicated at the beginning of the course.Attendance
Attending is not compulsony.Type of evaluation
The exam consists of an oral test. The student who attended the course undergoes some topics covered in the course and others analyzed in the bibliography adopted. The non-attending student must instead demonstrate to have studied in depth the texts of the exam program. The rating scale is 30/30. Evaluation elements are: 1) the depth and breadth of the knowledge acquired; 2) the mastery of language and the mastery of the sector vocabulary; 3) the ability to critically link issues and problems addressed.