Course teached as: B004570 - STORIA DELL'ARTE MODERNA Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Rethinking the Roman baroque. Contexts, case studies and European dissemination.
The course aims to examine some nodal points of the birth and development of figurative art in Baroque Rome, through the analysis of decorative contexts that have marked the stages. In the second part of the course the theme of the diffusion of Roman Baroque art in Europe will be addressed with particular reference to Spain and France.
-A. Bacchi, L. Barbero, a cura di, La riscoperta del Seicento. I libri fondativi, Genova 2017, segnatamente: G. Capitelli, Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italia 1600-1750, pp. 77-91; T. Montanari, Francis Haskell, Patrons and Painters, pp. 103-113; L. Simonato, Jennifer Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculture: the Industry of Art, pp. 191-207.
-J. Montagu, La scultura barocca romana. Un’industria dell’arte, Torino 1991.
-Il Genio di Roma, catalogo della mostra di Londra e Roma (Palazzo Venezia, 10 maggio-31 luglio 2001), a cura di Claudio Strinati e Rossella Vodret, Milano 2001.
-F. Haskell, Mecenati e Pittori. L'arte e le società italiane nell'età barocca, Firenze 1985, parte I: Roma.
-R.E. Spear, Rome. Setting the stage, in R.E. Spear, P. Sohm ed., Painting for profit. The economic lives of seventeenth-century Italian painters, New Haven and London 2010, pp. 33-113.
-D. Garcia Cueto, L'arrivo di dipinti e sculture del Seicento nelle Collezioni Reali spagnole durante il regno di Filippo IV: acquisizioni e doni dell'aristocrazia, in Da Caravaggio a Bernini. Capolavori del Seicento italiano nelle Collezioni Reali di Spagna, catalogo della mostra a cura di G. Redin Michaus, Milano 2017, pp. 57-73.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide methodological tools for understanding and studying the figurative culture of the Roman Baroque, with particular reference to the interrelationship between painting, sculpture and architecture.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the most important artistic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy. Good knowledge of the English language is also required.
Teaching Methods
Lectures with presentations of images and reading of critical texts. It is also planned at least one visit to Rome and to an exhibition in progress during the period of the lessons. The last lessons (also based on the number of students) will be of a seminar nature and dedicated to class expositions on topics assigned by the teacher on aspects dealt with during the course.
Further information
Further bibliographic details will be provided during lessons. Programs for non-attendant students will be defined by consulting the teacher
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. The discussion will start by identification of the works discussed in class, illustrated in the texts in the program or analyzed during visits offsite. It will also be required the contextualization of the works, the biography of the most important artists and the knowledge of the most significant critical texts. A question also will focus on the texts required for reading and visits to exhibitions and church buildings made during the course.
Course program
The course is inspired by the recent publication dedicated to the founding volumes for the study of Roman Baroque (A. Bacchi, L. Barbero, a cura di, La riscoperta del Seicento. I libri fondativi, Genova 2017). During the lessons we will take into account primarily decorative cycles adorning churches (Santa Maria in Vallicella, St. Agnes in Agony, Santa Maria della Vittoria), palaces (Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona, Palazzo Altieri) and also public spaces (Piazza Navona , Ponte Sant'Angelo), investigating also aspects of patronage and reception by his contemporaries. We will also analyse biographical profiles and careers of some of the protagonists of the period such as, for example, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona and Carlo Maratti. In the second part of the course, of a comparative nature, we will analyze those works and those artists who reached Spain and France and their impact on the local figurative culture will be evaluated.