According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) Knowledge and Understanding
Students acquire knowledge of art historiography between 16th and 18th centuries and methodology of art history, acquiring the ability to understand and analyse literary sources of art history
2) Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and analysis skills to the reading of literary sources of art history and will understand the historical and cultural background of the sources themselves and of the different authors
3) Making judgements
Students will independently apply the acquired knowledge to the reading of the sources
4) Communication skills
Students will acquire a specific technical language indispensable for the correct communication of art-historical knowledge
5) Learning skills
Students will acquire the ability to read the sources from the past relating to the history of art, to access the sources themselves, both printed and digitized.
Art Historiography between 16th and 18th centuries
- D. Levi, Il discorso sull’arte. Dalla tarda antichità a Ghiberti, Bruno Mondadori, Milano-Torino 2010, pp. 1-31
- La storia delle storie dell’arte, a cura di Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Einaudi, Torino 2014, pp. VII-179
- P. Barocchi, Storiografia e collezionismo dal Vasari al Lanzi, in Storia dell’arte italiana, vol. II, L’artista e il pubblico, Torino 1979, pp. 5-81;
- F. Bologna, La coscienza storica dell'arte d'Italia. Introduzione alla “Storia dell'arte in Italia”, Utet, Torino 1982 (nuova ediz.: Garzanti, Milano 1994), pp. 2-10 (Introduzione e capitolo I); 69-163 (V. Le Italie del Cinquecento; VI. Dalle Scuole seicentesche al “Sistema delle Scuole” di Luigi Lanzi); 193-196 (Conclusione)
Le vite de’ pittori messinesi by Francesco Susinno
- F. Susinno, Le vite de’ pittori messinesi (1724), a cura di V. Martinelli, Felice Le Monnier, Firenze 1960, pp. 1-16 (Argomento della storia al lettore); 96-120 (Catalano l’Antico, Paladini, Caravaggio, Minniti); 129-167 (Rodriguez, Barbalonga e pittori d'oltralpe); 187-198 (Quagliata); 203-211 (Marolì); 234-244 (Scilla); 275-288 (Tancredi); 289-295 (Lettera responsiva sopra l'accomodare le tavole e tele logore)
- Francesco Susinno tra «giudizio d’occhio maestro» e «istoria». Studi sulle Vite de’ pittori messinesi, a cura di B. Mancuso, “Studi di Memofonte”, 26, 2021 (247 pp.), available and downloadable at http://www.memofonte.it/studi-di-memofonte/numero-26-2021/
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