Art and art criticism in Italy (1430-1570)
General data
| Course ID: | 1205-OG-EN-AACI |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
(unknown)
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(0222) History and archaeology
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| Course title: | Art and art criticism in Italy (1430-1570) |
| Name in Polish: | Art and art criticism in Italy (1430-1570) |
| Organizational unit: | Chair of the History of Art and Culture |
| Course groups: | |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | English |
| Prerequisites: | The lectures will introduce both in the history of Italian painting and sculpture and the related writings on art in the period of Italian Renaissance (1430-1570). They reflect on art citicism and its historical terminologies, and invite students to practise the language of description. |
| Total student workload: | Contact hours with teacher: Participation In lectures: 30 h Self-study hours: The total time spent on individual student work and reading introductory literature: 30 h Altogether: 60 hours (2 ECTS) |
| Learning outcomes - knowledge: | Knowledge: Student recognizes relations between events and historical-artistic occurrence in different periods of the past and nowadays. Student has a general knowledge ordered in the field of formation and evolution of artistic doctrines, taste and aesthetic standards in the long term. |
| Learning outcomes - skills: | Skills: Student communicates in the language of the modern use of terminology specific to the history of art and related matters. |
| Learning outcomes - social competencies: | Social competencies: Student recognizes and respects the differences honestly portrayed viewpoints conditioned world of values and attitudes of people in different times and historical and cultural contexts, while demonstrating the independence and autonomy of their own thoughts. |
| Teaching methods: | Expository teaching methods: - informative lecture |
| Expository teaching methods: | - informative (conventional) lecture |
| Exploratory teaching methods: | - classic problem-solving |
| Short description: |
The lectures will introduce both in the history of Italian painting and sculpture and the related writings on art in the period of Italian Renaissance (1430-1570). They reflect on art citicism and its historical terminologies, and invite students to practise the language of description. |
| Full description: |
Since Antiquity the historicity of art was described as a sequence of beginnings, brightest moments, declines and revivals. Connected with the idea of style and history of style, it became a common practice to recognize the individual perfection of the work of art and to distinguish individual or contrasting styles. The lectures will introduce in the history of Italian painting and sculpture of the period 1430-1570: Regional schools, main works, early and modern terminology and art criticism. Questions of imitation and emulation after the works of "nature" and "antiquity". Florentine design and draftsmanship, Venetian colourism. |
| Bibliography: |
Introductory literature Leon Battista Alberti: On painting (Della pittura, 1435). Translated with introduction and notes by John R. Spencer. Revised edition, New Haven-London 1966 et passim |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Assessment method: oral exam that checks the degree of mastery of the material presented during the lecture and concluded in the literature Assessment criteria: satisfactory- 40%) satisfactory plus- 50%; good - 60%; good plus- 70%; very good- 80% |
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