The course, dedicated to students of the Master's Degree, is aimed at implementing the knowledge and critical understanding of figurative art and culture in Italy and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is a period wrought by the studies of the last century only starting around the 1920s. The course therefore aims to provide critical and historiographical tools to address this segment of the history of art. It also intends to provide knowledge about the artists and the works performed in this period through a history of figurative production in the main Italian centers, studied both from the point of view of the client and of patronage, and, no less important, from the stylistic point of view. formal. One of the main objectives of the course is in fact the acquisition by the students of the ability of stylistic analysis and consequently of the attributive ability of the works executed in these two centuries.
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The course focuses on Carvaggio's early career. It will start from Cravaggio's lombard years spent in Peterzano's workshop in Milano, considering the painter's hard beginnings in Rome, ending with the 1603 trial in which suddendly became clear the success of Caravaggio's naturalism. To understand this part of the painter's life we will focus on the works realized during these years, together with the archival documents and the critic debate including the most recent publications and particularly the exhibition Peterzano allievo di Tiziano maestro di Caravaggio, held in Bergamo Accademia Carrarra in 2020.
Selected bibliography:
M. Cinotti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Bergamo 1983, this text is still the most important monograph about the artist, of course it has to be supplemented by the recent bibliography.
Peterzano, allievo di Tiziano, maestro di Caravaggio, catalogo della mostra (Bergamo, Accademia Carrara 2020), a cura di S. Facchinetti, F. Frangi, P. Plebani, M.C. Rodeschini, Milano 2020, in particolare il saggio M.C. Terzaghi, Caravaggio 1584-1588: la bottega di Simone Peterzano, pp. 53-65, e le schede delle opere Bacchino malato; I Musici.
Il giovane Caravaggio Sine ira et studio, atti del convegno di studi, a cura di Alessandro Zuccari, Roma (De Luca Editore), 2018, in particolare i saggi di M. Di Sivo; R. Gandolfi; O. Verdi; G. Berra; F. Curti; M.C. Terzaghi.
Caravaggio a Roma, una vita dal vero, catalogo della mostra (Roma, Archivio di Stato), a cura di M. Di Sivo e O. Verdi, Roma 2011, in particolare i saggi di Francesca Curti, Orietta Baroncelli, Antonella Pampalone, M. Di Sivo.
Programme
THE YOUNG CARAVAGGIO (1571-1603)The course focuses on Carvaggio's early career. It will start from Cravaggio's lombard years spent in Peterzano's workshop in Milano, considering the painter's hard beginnings in Rome, ending with the 1603 trial in which suddendly became clear the success of Caravaggio's naturalism. To understand this part of the painter's life we will focus on the works realized during these years, together with the archival documents and the critic debate including the most recent publications and particularly the exhibition Peterzano allievo di Tiziano maestro di Caravaggio, held in Bergamo Accademia Carrarra in 2020.
Core Documentation
More bibliography will be suggested during the course. You can find the slides of the lessons on the website indicated during the course.Selected bibliography:
M. Cinotti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Bergamo 1983, this text is still the most important monograph about the artist, of course it has to be supplemented by the recent bibliography.
Peterzano, allievo di Tiziano, maestro di Caravaggio, catalogo della mostra (Bergamo, Accademia Carrara 2020), a cura di S. Facchinetti, F. Frangi, P. Plebani, M.C. Rodeschini, Milano 2020, in particolare il saggio M.C. Terzaghi, Caravaggio 1584-1588: la bottega di Simone Peterzano, pp. 53-65, e le schede delle opere Bacchino malato; I Musici.
Il giovane Caravaggio Sine ira et studio, atti del convegno di studi, a cura di Alessandro Zuccari, Roma (De Luca Editore), 2018, in particolare i saggi di M. Di Sivo; R. Gandolfi; O. Verdi; G. Berra; F. Curti; M.C. Terzaghi.
Caravaggio a Roma, una vita dal vero, catalogo della mostra (Roma, Archivio di Stato), a cura di M. Di Sivo e O. Verdi, Roma 2011, in particolare i saggi di Francesca Curti, Orietta Baroncelli, Antonella Pampalone, M. Di Sivo.
Type of delivery of the course
The course will be held in the second term. Due to Covid-19 emergency the lessons (power point plus audio) can be find on Teams App.Type of evaluation
Students are requested to give a written paper as final exam.