Renaissance/Baroque Art History

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course is for students of the Bachelor degree and intends to offer the features of the development of Italian art history from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century (from the late Gothic to Neoclassicism), through the analysis of the work of the leading artists working in these centuries in Italy, and pictorial languages to which it gave birth. The study method will favor the historical interpretation and style of the art object; it is therefore essential to a visual knowledge of the works of individual artists. The course includes some introductory lectures on the methodology of the study of art history and on some general issues (for example, the periodization of the history of art, the use of critical historical categories such as the concept of Renaissance and of Baroque as they relate to style and so on). The course also provides insights on the path of individual artists and on the fundamental stylistic intersections of art history in the period under review.