Fundamental of Art History

(1.5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course of fundamentals of the History of art III proposes to study the production Italian artistic between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from thematic approaches and plural methodological methods that aim to observe the emergence of new discourses and interactions between major Italian centers (Florence, Rome, Venice). Questions of imitation of nature, reception of antiquity, techniques, relationship to the sponsors, will be explored through different artistic mediums (architecture, painting, sculpture, engraving) with particular attention to the context of creation of origin, both artistic and socio-political. At a time when art history is thought of essentially in terms of trade, this privileged relationship with Italy is obviously envisaged on a European scale with an opening on the Italian tropism which dominates the French Renaissance but also because of a common cultural heritage where ancient and medieval legacies. This course is taught in French.