20710158 - FONTI E METODI PER LO STUDIO DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE - LM

development of acquired knowledge; specific knowledge of the historical and artistic development of the medieval art (VI-XV century) acquisition of specific skills on artistic and craft production, monumental achievements of medieval age; ability to collect and interpret data; ability to analyze and read the work of art; development of a methodological competence that allows independent study; ability to communicate information and ideas to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors
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Mutuazione: 20710158 FONTI E METODI PER LO STUDIO DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE - LM in Storia dell'arte LM-89 BALLARDINI ANTONELLA

Programme

From research to storytelling: St. Peter’s in the Vatican before and after the Holy Door (8th-17th centuries)

Why does the Holy Door titulus of the new St. Peter’s dating from the time of Paul V (1612) bear an inscription dating to the time of Gregory XIII (1575)? If every monument is a document, there must be a reason that can be investigated with the tools of historical and historical-artistic research. Tracing the history of a place in the Vatican basilica that is rich with ritual meanings, these lectures are aimed at: recomposing the phases and transformations of a place in the ancient basilica that has left memories and evidences of itself in the new one; experimenting different kinds of investigative strategies; questioning about the narrative of what we discover, because only «the story reveals the meaning of what would otherwise remain an intolerable sequence of events».


Core Documentation

PRELIMINAY BIBLIOGRAPHY (The complete bibliography will be updated at the end of the course)

Ch. Thoenes, Persistenze, ricorrenze e innovazioni nella storia della Basilica Vaticana, in Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura
N.S. 57/59.2011/12, pp. 85-92.

P. Liverani, San Pietro in Vaticano, in La visita alle ‘Sette chiese’, a cura di L. Pani Ermini, Roma 2000, pp. 21-45.

H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, Ch. Thoenes, S. Pietro. Storia di un monumento, Milano 2015; in part. A.Ballardini, La Basilica di San Pietro nel Medioevo, pp. 34-75 e le note alle pp. 325-330.

A.Ballardini, Un oratorio per la Theotokos: Giovanni VII (705-707) committente a San Pietro, in Medioevo: i committenti, XIII Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 21-26 settembre 2010, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2011, pp. 98-116.

A.Ballardini, Piccola ma aurea: la Porta Santa nell'antico San Pietro, in Quando la Fabbrica costruì San Pietro. Un cantiere di lavoro, di pietà cristiana e di umanità (XVI-XIX secolo), a cura di Assunta Di Sante e Simona Turriziani, Foligno 2016, pp. 19-41.

A. Ballardini, Von Iohannes VII. zu den Renaissancepäpsten. Die Öffnung der Heiligen Pforte in Alt-St.Peter, in Die Päpste und Rom zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter. Formen der Päpstlichen Machtentfaltung (17. - 19. März 2016), Hrg. Norbert Zimmermann, Tanja Michalsky, Alfried Wieczorek, Stefan Weinfurter, Schnell & Steiner 2017, pp. 29-53. (disponibile anche in italiano).


For Erasmus Students: (at the Library L. Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10):

Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, edited by Rosamond McKitterich, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson and Johanna Story, Cambridge University Press 2013.


To consult at the Library L.Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10:

Tiberii Alpharani De Basilicae Vaticanae antiquissima et nova structura, a cura di M. Cerrati (Studi e testi, XXVI), Roma 1914.

G. Grimaldi, Descrizione della basilica antica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Codice Barberini latino 2733, a cura di R. Niggl, (Codices e Vaticanis selecti, XXXII), Città del Vaticano 1972.

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures

Type of evaluation

Oral examination