The aim of the course is to give at the student the 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 process of transforming private collections into museum institutions from the papacy of Clement XI to the Napoleonic period will be retraced, focusing in particular on the events of key museum institutions: the Vatican Museums and the Capitoline Museums.
Through focused conferences and visits will be analyzed the conservative politics, the birth and identity of public collections such as the National Galleries Barberini and Corsini or the Galleria Spada.
the key problems will be:
a) the birth of museums between the 18th and 19th century
b) the history and main features of the major museums of old masters and contemporary art
c) the current debate on museums: forms of display, new publics, forms of narrative and dissemination of knowledge
To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he has studied extensively:
1) at least one of the following texts:
M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milano, Mondadori, 2011
S. Costa, D. Poulot, M. Volait ( a cura di), The period rooms : allestimenti storici tra arte, collezionismo e museologia, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016
P. Bourdieu-A. Darbel, L’amour de l’art. Le musées d’art européens et leur public, Paris, Édition de Minuit, 1969 (trad. it. L' amore dell'arte : le leggi della diffusione culturale : i musei d'arte europei e il loro pubblico, Rimini, Guaraldi, 1972)
2) at least 2 of the following texts:
I. Sgarbozza, Le spalle al Settecento. Forma, modelli e organizzazione dei musei nella Roma napoleonica (1809-1814), Città del Vaticano, Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2013
P. Nicita, Musei e storia dell'arte a Roma. Palazzo Corsini, Palazzo Venezia, Castel Sant'Angelo e Palazzo Barberini tra XIX e XX secolo, Roma, Campisano 2010
Ritratto di una collezione. Pannini e la galleria del cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, catalogo della mostra, Mantova, Palazzo Te, 6 marzo - 15 maggio 2005, a cura di R. Morselli, R. Vodret, Milano, Skira, 2005
In addition to what is indicated here, the non-attending student will have to choose two other texts:
M. Ferretti e A.Buzzoni, Musei, in Capire l'Italia. Il Patrimonio storico-artistico, TCI, Milano 1979, pp. 112-131
F. Haskell, The ephemeral museum. Old master painting and the rise of the art exhibition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000 (trad. it. La nascita delle mostre. I dipinti degli antichi maestri e l’origine delle esposizioni d’arte, Milano-Ginevra, Skira, 2008
Programme
History of collections and the museum in Rome from the eighteenth century to the present. Study casesThe process of transforming private collections into museum institutions from the papacy of Clement XI to the Napoleonic period will be retraced, focusing in particular on the events of key museum institutions: the Vatican Museums and the Capitoline Museums.
Through focused conferences and visits will be analyzed the conservative politics, the birth and identity of public collections such as the National Galleries Barberini and Corsini or the Galleria Spada.
the key problems will be:
a) the birth of museums between the 18th and 19th century
b) the history and main features of the major museums of old masters and contemporary art
c) the current debate on museums: forms of display, new publics, forms of narrative and dissemination of knowledge
Core Documentation
Exam programTo pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he has studied extensively:
1) at least one of the following texts:
M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milano, Mondadori, 2011
S. Costa, D. Poulot, M. Volait ( a cura di), The period rooms : allestimenti storici tra arte, collezionismo e museologia, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016
P. Bourdieu-A. Darbel, L’amour de l’art. Le musées d’art européens et leur public, Paris, Édition de Minuit, 1969 (trad. it. L' amore dell'arte : le leggi della diffusione culturale : i musei d'arte europei e il loro pubblico, Rimini, Guaraldi, 1972)
2) at least 2 of the following texts:
I. Sgarbozza, Le spalle al Settecento. Forma, modelli e organizzazione dei musei nella Roma napoleonica (1809-1814), Città del Vaticano, Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2013
P. Nicita, Musei e storia dell'arte a Roma. Palazzo Corsini, Palazzo Venezia, Castel Sant'Angelo e Palazzo Barberini tra XIX e XX secolo, Roma, Campisano 2010
Ritratto di una collezione. Pannini e la galleria del cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, catalogo della mostra, Mantova, Palazzo Te, 6 marzo - 15 maggio 2005, a cura di R. Morselli, R. Vodret, Milano, Skira, 2005
In addition to what is indicated here, the non-attending student will have to choose two other texts:
M. Ferretti e A.Buzzoni, Musei, in Capire l'Italia. Il Patrimonio storico-artistico, TCI, Milano 1979, pp. 112-131
F. Haskell, The ephemeral museum. Old master painting and the rise of the art exhibition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000 (trad. it. La nascita delle mostre. I dipinti degli antichi maestri e l’origine delle esposizioni d’arte, Milano-Ginevra, Skira, 2008
Reference Bibliography
AA. VV. L’art de l’exposition. Une documentation sur trente expositions exemplaires du XXe siècle, Parigi, édition du regard, 1998. C. De Benedictis, Per una storia del collezionismo italiano. Fonti e documenti, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie, 1991. M.C. Mazzi, In viaggio con le muse. Spazi e modelli del museo, Firenze, Edifir, 2005. K. Pomian, Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux. Paris, Venise : XV.e-XVIII.e siècle, Paris, 1987 (trad. it Collezionisti, amatori e curiosi. Parigi-Venezia XVI-XVIII secolo, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2007). D. Poulot, L’art d’aimer les objets, Laval, Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2016. P. Bourdieu, A. Darbel, L'amore dell'arte, le leggi della diffusione culturale: i musei d'arte europei e il loro pubblico, Rimini Guaraldi 1972 [titolo or. L'amour de l'art: les musées et leur public 1966]. S. Costa, G. Perini Folesani (a cura di), I savi e gli ignoranti. Dialogo del pubblico con l'arte, Bologna, BUP, 2017.Type of delivery of the course
Lectures, workshops, museum visitsType 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. At the end of the course the student will know the history of the museum institution in its general lines and the study cases of the history of collections and the museum in Rome presented during the course.