STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA MODERNA
Academic Year 2022/2023 - 3° YearCredit Value: 10
Scientific field: ICAR/18 - Architectural history
Taught classes: 80 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Expected Learning Outcomes
The History of Modern Architecture Course aims to provide a framework for the knowledge and understanding of the History of Italian Architecture of the modern age and its most representative protagonists.The topics of the course range from the Renaissance age to the late Baroque aget; the course also aims to provide the critical capacity in evaluating the events of the development of architecture over the centuries and the ability to compare different artistic languages. The history of architecture is analyzed in its inseparable relationship with the history of the city.
Course Structure
The teaching takes place through lectures, exercises, that accustom the student to carry out autonomous research, and traveling lessons with study visits for a more diversified and complete critical reading of the analyzed topics; any virtual traveling lessons. Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
The history of Italian architecture from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century up to the late Baroque. Main topics: The new artistic culture: the Italian renaissance; protagonists of the arts and urban renewal; the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Sicily; The Roman Baroque and its protagonists; other regional areas of the Baroque:in particular the Sicily andb the lateIblean Baroque. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Textbook Information
1. P. Murray, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London 1969 (updated editions)
2. Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750, Penguin Books Ltd, England 1958 (updated editions) (only the recommended chapters)
https://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2021/courses/syllabus?cid=20124/
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | History of the Italian Renaissance (protagonists and architects of urban renewal and architecture); the Roman Baroque and its protagonists; regional areas of the Italian Baroque (Turin, Venice, Naples, Sicily); the late Baroque in Italy and comparisons with the European area | |
| 2 | Development of the Renaissance and Baroque in Italy and its protagonists and related main works | |
| 3 | As an exercise, themed power points are created on topics chosen with the teacher through which to deepen the topics and develop a critical sense and ability to broadly compare the works and periods. |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The exam is oral and individual on themes and aspects concerning the Renaissance age (protagonists and works in the program) and the age of the Baroque up to the late Baroque (protagonists and works in the program).Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Chronology of the Renaissance; chronology of the baroque; Do you recognize this architecture? Tell me about Brunelleschi's work; tell me about Bernini.. and other authors