Christian and medieval iconography

The course aims to address the artistic production of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance from the point of view of iconographic themes, both pagan and Christian, and stylistic trends, paying particular attention to the relationship between objects, literary sources and social dynamics, in order to provide tools for understanding and reading sacred and profane images.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

A) Preliminary and methodological issues:

S. Settis, Iconografia dell’arte italiana 1100-1500: una linea, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Parte I. vol. 3, L’esperienza dell’antico, dell’Europa, della religiosità, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, pp. 175-270, ripubblicato come S. Settis, Iconografia dell’arte italiana 1100-1500: una linea, Torino, Einaudi, 2005   

B) Profane iconographies:

E. Wind, Misteri pagani nel Rinascimento, Milano, Adelphi, 1985.

C) Religious iconographies:

A. Ballarin, Leonardo a Milano. Le due versioni della Vergine delle rocce. Con una nota sul ritratto di Cecilia Gallerani, Verona, Edizioni dell’Aurora, 2019.

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