The course aims to provide the basic tools for addressing the study of the history of architecture. Therefore, we would like the students to acquire adequate technical terminology, a general picture of the development of the History of Architecture in the West (with particular attention to Italy) in the modern age, as well as an awareness of the sources and problems. of scientific research in the historical-architectural field.
Course Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of the history of Italian art and of Italian and European historical events between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Teaching Methods
Lectures (30 hours) with power-point, available later on the Kiro platform. The lectures will be supplemented by visits to the monuments examined during the lessons, in order to deepen some of the topics treated (12 hours).
Assessment Methods
The oral exam is focused on the topics covered in class and it will tend to evaluate the ability to recognize the works, to summarize the events of the buildings, to contextualize them in the historical and cultural panorama of the time and to describe them correctly, through the use of appropriate specific terminology.
Texts
For a first orientation: G. Cricco, FP. Di Teodoro, Itinerary in art (major version), vol. 2, Zanichelli, or G. Cricco FP. Di Teodoro, Itinerary in art (ed. And yellow), fourth edition, vol. 3, (only the chapters and paragraphs on architecture).On architectural orders and their use in the Renaissance : J. Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Contemporary Masters, Turin, Einaudi, ed. 1970 and subsequent editions. Reference text for the exam: C. L. Frommel, Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Milan 2009
Contents
Filippo Brunelleschi; Leon Battista Alberti; Architetture e città nell'Italia del Quattrocento: Firenze, Pienza, Urbino, Venezia. Donato Bramante a Milano e Roma, Raffello, Giulio Romano, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Michelangelo.
Course Language
Italian
More information
The lecturer is available to arrange additional office hours, either in person or online, for students authorised to benefit from "inclusive teaching".
