HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART - ADVANCED COURSE

The course aims to offer a deeper knowledge of medieval artistic contexts, specifically of languages, techniques, and stylistic problems in medieval Italian and European production.

A first study will be dedicated to some important narrative cycles between the 11^th and 13^th centuries, belonging to the Lombard Romanesque painting, to the Roman figurative tradition and to Norman Sicily, with the aim of maturing in the knowledge of narrative systems in medieval figurative culture, as well as the use of iconographic models and the indispensable link between clients, creators of narrative programs and artists.

A second focus will be dedicated to the plastic production made in Sicily from the moment of the Norman conquest of the island and throughout the age of the kingdom.

Lecture format.

1. Contexts and functions of the arts in the Middle Ages.

2. Narrative cycles in Italy and in Sicily between the 11^th and 13^th centuries.

3. Sculpture in Norman Sicily.

1.

- L’Arte medievale nel contesto. 300-1300. Funzioni, iconografia, tecniche, ed. P. Piva, Jaca Book, Milan 2006, 450 pages.

2.

- Les stratégies de la narration dans la peinture médiévale. La représentation de l’Ancien Testament aux IV^e-XII^e siècles, ed. M. Angheben, Brepols, Turnhout 2020; articles of: M. Angheben, pp. 9-24; S. Romano, pp. 127-141; I. Quadri, pp. 143-167; M. Rossi, pp. 169-194; F. Scirea, pp. 195-221; G. Arcidiacono, pp. 317-343; T. Bella, pp. 345-372; H. Kessler, pp. 373-402; and planches, pp. 416-430, 450-464.

3.

- F. Gandolfo, La scultura nella Sicilia normanna, voll. I-II, Edizioni Tored, Tivoli 2019, 573 pages.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.