HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Course objectives

The course deals with and deepens some themes of History of Art in the period between Renaissance and Baroque ages, with particular attention to Caravaggio's time and environment

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VALTER CURZI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course intends to trace a path in particular among the protagonists of eighteenth-century Venetian painting. We want to observe, first of all, the international fortune of some artists in the relationship with the taste of the time, analyze the specificity of the figurative proposal and, at the same time, its resistance in comparison with the classicist language unanimously welcomed in Europe with the advancement of the eighteenth century.
Prerequisites
General knowledge of the methodological and historical-critical directions of the history of modern art, is recommended reading the text: V. Curzi, Histories of art. Works and methods, Milan, Skira 2023
Frequency
recommended
Exam mode
Knowledge of the methodological aspects and the most significant works of art of the period. Language properties in oral conversation
Lesson mode
frontal lessons
VALTER CURZI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course intends to trace a path in particular among the protagonists of eighteenth-century Venetian painting. We want to observe, first of all, the international fortune of some artists in the relationship with the taste of the time, analyze the specificity of the figurative proposal and, at the same time, its resistance in comparison with the classicist language unanimously welcomed in Europe with the advancement of the eighteenth century.
Prerequisites
General knowledge of the methodological and historical-critical directions of the history of modern art, is recommended reading the text: V. Curzi, Histories of art. Works and methods, Milan, Skira 2023
Frequency
recommended
Exam mode
Knowledge of the methodological aspects and the most significant works of art of the period. Language properties in oral conversation
Lesson mode
frontal lessons
  • Lesson code1025122
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseMusicology
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year2nd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDL-ART/02
  • CFU6