The course is intended to provide the most meaningful literature sources of the Modern Art History.
Course Prerequisites
An adeguate knowledge of the Italian Art and Literature from the 15th to the 18th century.
Teaching Methods
Lectures during which the literary and historiographical texts will be read and commented in relation to works of art.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination. Students must be able to discuss, analyse and comment the texts read during the course.
Texts
A book among these: J. Schlosser, La letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna, La Nuova Italia, Firenze (several editions); L. Venturi, Storia della critica d'arte, Einaudi, Torino (several editions). Further bibliography will be comunicate during the lessons
Contents
The course will consider the main works of the Italian Art Literature and Theory from Humanism to Enlightenmet, with a special focus on the artist's biography, strating from Giorgio Vasari.
