STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE
Academic Year 2025/2026 - 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
Romanesque art in Europe and Italy
Gothic art in Italy
Late Gothic and early Renaissance
Textbook Information
Handbook
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, 483-550, 556-581, 589-596, 598-633, 636-671, 678-703, 708-843 e 848-859.
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, 284-287 e 328-329.
Monographic readings: Catania Cathedral
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 (online at elearning.unict.it).
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Early Christian, Byzantine and early medieval art | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 456-461, 483-550, 556-581 and 589-596 |
| 2 | Romanesque art in Europe and Italy | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 598-633 and 636-671 |
| 3 | Gothic art in Italy | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, II, pp. 678-703, 708-843 and 848-859 |
| 4 | Late Gothic and early Renaissance | Cricco - Di Teodoro 2016, III, pp. 2-169, 284-287 and 328-329 |
| 5 | Catania Cathedral | Bella 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.