Art History

VALTER CURZI

The Course aims to offer students tools for historical-critical analysis of art from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century - through a theme-based and chronological cut, which allows students to orient themselves in the sources and in the bibliography, in order to develop - in time - ability to read, interpret, link works and historical-artistic events.

Students are expected to have an in-depth knowledge of the topics covered in class through the use of powerpoints (available on Classroom) and bibliography.

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

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.

frontal lessons

recommended

Knowledge of the methodological aspects and the most significant works of art of the period. Language properties in oral conversation

Questions about the historical period, the works, the style