Educational objectives The course aims to provide the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to undertake study and, at an advanced stage, research in the field of artistic disciplines, with particular reference to the medieval period. Expected learning outcomes. With reference to the following parameters: knowledge and understanding; ability to apply knowledge and understanding; independent judgement; communication skills; learning skills, at the end of the course students will be able to: • Understand the evolution of artistic language from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance. • Understand representative and iconographic codes. • Recognise the regional and chronological context of a historical artistic artefact or medieval architecture. Ability to understand the iconographic code of an image or the structural typological data of medieval architecture. • Deduce the historical and cultural role of an artefact and be able to relate it to the contemporary European context. • Illustrate the salient features and contents of a historical artistic or architectural artefact from the Middle Ages. • Based on the knowledge acquired during the lessons, evaluate (read and decode) an artistic or architectural context from the Middle Ages.
Course Prerequisites
Basic concepts (secondary school level) in History
Teaching Methods
Lectures, tutorials and seminars, visits to monuments and museums.
Assessment Methods
At the end of the course there will be a test of assessment in the form of an oral examination, lasting a minimum of twenty minutes, tending to check the achievement of educational goals through: 1. the recognition of some images taken from a textbook; 2. check of student's descriptive ability of such images, as well as the ability to relate them with cultural / artistic / architectural contexts of the period considered; 3. ability to relate the works with the cultural / artistic / architectural contexts of the reference period; 4. knowledge of the figurative and representative codes; 5. knowledge of the specific terminology of the discipline. In particular, the following weight will be given to the verification of the aforementioned achievement of the training objectives: 1: 20%; 2: 20%; 3: 40%; 4: 10%; 5: 10%.
Contents
Basic elements of Mediaeval Art History in Italy and in Europe from Early Christian era to Late Gothic.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Study visits to medieval monuments in Regio Insubrica are planned. STUDENT RECEPTION: The teacher receives students on lecture days just after the end of the lecture itself, in spaces provided by DIDEC. Alternatively, the lecturer is available for a remote reception (via Teams platform or other) upon request to the e-mail address: saverio.lomartire@uninsubria.it. The lecturer only replies to signed e-mails from @studenti.uninsubria.it.
