Basic knowledge of humanities and art history matters and sufficient mastery of art-historical language and terminology.

The course aims to address fundamental themes of the history of modern art in Italy from the 15th to the 18th century (currents, protagonists, main works), also in relation to that of other European countries, with particular attention to painting, sculpture and the 'minor arts'. Some of the main topics will be the subject of specific focuses, insights and exercises.

The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of some of the artists, currents and fundamental works of the history of modern Italian art.

The course includes lectures with use of digital images, videos and PowerPoint. On the topics discussed from time to time, exercises to establish the key concepts and specifical exercises of attribution and recognition (of styles, artists and eras) will be carried out.

Oral examination. Possibility to assign the student a simple test or an exercise of reading a work of art

Exam date:

June 11, July 4, July 19, September 10, October 24, 2024

These are the general topics that will be examined during the course:

- Renaissance Italy: a brief historical-geographical-artistic overview;

- The early Renaissance in Florence: perspective, Masaccio, Donatello, Beato Angelico, Paolo Uccello;

- Other protagonists of the Renaissance: Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna;

- Renaissance art of Northern Europe and its relationship with Italian art of the 15th century: the Limbourg brothers, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden;

- The mature Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael;

- Mannerism and Venetian art: Benvenuto Cellini, Pontormo, Tintoretto, Veronese and Titian;

- The Baroque: Caravaggio and Bernini, the Carracci and the great Roman pictorial decoration;

- Masters of the European 17th century: Rembrandt and Vermeer;

- The 18th century and Venetian landscape painting: Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Tiepolo.

Students will be able to study the topics covered by a good art history textbook.

And howewer they will be able to use all the parts and chapters dedicated to modern art contained in the following texts:

• Giuseppe Nifosì, CLIL for english. History of art. Per il quarto anno delle Scuole superiori. Vol. 2, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.

• Mattia Reiche-Gloria Fossi-Marco Bussagli, Italian Art. Painting, Sculpture, Architecture from the Origins to the Present Day, Giunti, Firenze 2018.

• Mariangela Gasparetto, Art.CLIL. From the Egyptian to Post-impressionism, Zanichelli, Bologna 2019.

• Paola Gherardelli, Art Tours in CLIL, Zanichelli, Bologna 2022.

• Marilyn Stokstad - Michael W. Cothren, La bellezza resta. Express Yourself, Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori, Milano-Roma 2023.

The teacher may provide other texts or articles useful for preparing for the exam.