STORIA DEL DISEGNO, DELL'INCISIONE E DELLA GRAFICA

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

DIS001

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART

Disciplinary Sector:

HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TORLONTANO Rossana

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Prerequisites:

It is required a good knowledge of the history of art from the Middle Age to the nineteenth century, acquired in the Bachelor’s Degree Course.

Objectives

The course is part of the general purpose of the course of study which has, as its mission, to train highly qualified personnel through a good specialist formation. The course is aimed at providing the tools necessary for the knowledge of Italian drawing and engraving in their historical development with different insights on some of the most important periods of the modern age and about specific monographic themes, keeping in mind obviously the techniques, the materials and functions in relation to the expressive and creative needs of the artists and the contributions by the rising art critic in the Modern Age.

Contents

The historical development of drawing and engraving considered in the development of a long period, from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century.

Extended Syllabus

The course will trat the main issues related to the development of drawing and engraving in Modern Age. Furthermore, importance will be given to the study of engraving techniques. The topics will be: The technique and the practice of drawing; Cities, schools and artists between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries; The invention of the press; Engraving in Italy during the Renaissance; The question of the prevalence between drawing and color; The collecting of drawings and engravings between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; An emblematic case of the fortune of graphic arts: Guercino and his ‘Falsario’.

Recommended Bibliography

General part

F. Negri Arnoldi, S. Valenti Prosperi Rodinò, Il disegno nella storia dell’arte italiana, Roma Carocci 2003
H. Chapman, Il disegno italiano del Quattrocento, in Figure, memorie, spazio. Disegni da Fra’ Angelico a Leonardo, exhibition catalogue by H. Chapman and M. Faietti, Firenze 2011, pp. 15-75.
C. Monbeig Goguel, Il disegno italiano del Cinquecento, in La Pittura in Italia. Il Cinquecento, Milano Electa, tome II, pp.593-614.
It is reccomended to refer to the serie Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche published by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica as a reference for the study of the technique and history of the engraving. The study of one of the following texts is therefore required:
- Le tecniche d’incisione a rilievo. La xilografia (Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche, 1), edited by G. Mariani, Roma 2001.
- Le tecniche calcografiche d’incisione diretta. Bulino puntasecca maniera nera (Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche, 2), edited by G. Mariani, Roma 2003.
- Le tecniche calcografiche d’incisione indiretta. Acquaforte, acquatinta, lavis, ceramolle (Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche, 3), edited by G. Mariani, Roma 2005.
- Le tecniche in piano. Litografia serigrafia (Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche, 4), edited by G. Mariani, Roma 2006.

Further theme:

Guercino, la scuola, la maniera. I disegni agli Uffizi, edited by Nicholas Turner, exhibition catalogue, Firenze, Leo Olschki 2008.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with visual supports, connoisseur exercises, possible guided visits to exhibitions and collections that offer the possibility of direct knowledge of drawings and engravings.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam consists of an oral interview with a final mark in thirtieths. The students will have to show that they knows how to orient theirselves in recognizing the techniques, the period and the area of production of the works that will be submitted, placing them in the historical-artistic context. The critical reading skills of both these works and of the recommended texts will also be examined.

Contacts/More Information

Students that are unable to attend the course are invited to contact the teacher. Course attendance is not mandatory, but recommended. The lessons are the main guide to orientate the studentsin the preparation of the exam. The teaching material not available at the Ettore Paratore Library will be made available on the University e-learning platform.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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