STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ADRIANO NAPOLIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide basic knowledge and understanding of the History of art in Italy and Europe from the early Christian age to the first half of the 15th century. Targeted insights will be dedicated to the city of Catania in the Middle Ages. Among the specific objectives the students will acquire: the ability to analyze, from an iconographic and stylistic point of view, the works of art in the program and to apply the acquired knowledge; the ability to place the works in the appropriate space-time frame, understanding the relationships with the political, religious and cultural context of reference with autonomy of judgment; the ability to critically describe and comment on works of art, using the specific lexicon of the discipline; the ability to plan tourist thematic itineraries with particular reference to the Sicilian reality.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the general outlines of Italian and European medieval history.
Attendance of Lessons
Not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
Early Christian, byzantine and early medieval art (1 CFU approx.)
Romanesque art in Europe and Italy(1 CFU approx.)
Gothic art in Italy (2 CFU approx.)
Late Gothic and early Renaissance (1 CFU approx.)
Medieval art in Catania (1 CFU approx.)
Textbook Information
Handbook (550 pp. approx.)
G. Cricco e F.P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell’arte. Versione gialla, IV ed. [o precedenti], Zanichelli, Bologna 2016, vol. II, Dall’arte paleocristiana a Giotto [ISBN: 9788808437846], pp. 456-461, 483-596, 598-676 e 678-864.
G. Cricco e F.P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell’arte. Versione gialla, IV ed. [o precedenti], Zanichelli, Bologna 2016, vol. III, Dal Gotico internazionale al Manierismo [ISBN: 9788808649751], pp. 2-169.
Monographic readings: Medieval art in Catania (50 pp. approx.)
T. Bella, Ansgerius quod ego… ecclesiae primus fundamina ieci. La cattedrale normanna di Catania: materiali per un riesame, in «Arte Cristiana», CVI, 2018, 909, pp. 404-421.
P. Vitolo, Per i monumenti funerari dei sovrani aragonesi di Sicilia a Catania, Palermo e Messina: testimonianze documentarie, frammenti ritrovati, ipotesi di ricostruzione, in Un’isola nel contesto mediterraneo. Politica, cultura e arte nella Sicilia e nell’Italia meridionale in età medievale e moderna, atti del convegno (Catania, 21 marzo 2017), a cura di C. Urso, P. Vitolo ed E. Piazza, Mario Adda Editore, Bari 2018, pp. 213-240.Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Early Christian, Byzantine and early medieval art | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 456-461 and 483-596 |
| 2 | Romanesque art in Europe and Italy | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 598-676 |
| 3 | Gothic art in Italy | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 678-864 |
| 4 | Late Gothic and early Renaissance | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, III, pp. 2-169 |
| 5 | Medieval art in Catania | Bella 2018; Vitolo 2018 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The assessment will take into account the candidate’s mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as his/her dialectic ability.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Analysis and historical contextualization of a monument, an artwork or the production of an artist.
Recognition of an artwork.
Analytical exposition of one or more monographic readings.