ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOLOGIA
cod. 1006664

Academic year 2018/19
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Storia dell'arte moderna (L-ART/02)
Field
Discipline storico-artistiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: HISTORY OF MODERN ART

Learning objectives

The student must:
- master the critical tools suitable to formally and conceptually interpret images in their historical development.
- know how to carry out a detailed iconographic and stylistic analysis of a Renaissance work of art, using an appropriate descriptive lexicon;
- be able to perform iconographic and stylistic comparisons between works belonging also to different historical-artistic contexts, highlighting their figurative prototypes and their contaminations both Western and Oriental;

Prerequisites

The student must know the history of medieval art and the history of modern art, must be able to link the artefact to cultural and religious contexts.

Course unit content

The course illustrates the iconological method and also through examples taken from the School of Parma teaches the correct use of historical-critical, philological and bibliographic tools in the investigation of the meanings of images, with particular attention to hieroglyphics, emblems and alchemical images.

Full programme

Programma esteso (argomenti delle lezioni):
- La Rinascita del paganesimo antico
- La scuola iconologica: Wittkover e la tradizione warburgiana; Warburg, Saxl, Panofsky, Ghihlow, Wind
- Geroglifici
- Alchimia e iconologia
- Imprese ed emblemi
- 1490 – 1534: Parma – Mantova – Venezia, relazioni artistiche
- Correggio e la sua Scuola
- Parmigianino e la Bella Maniera
- Il Monastero di San Paolo a Parma: arte e iconologia
- Parmigianino: da Fontanellato a Casalmaggiore, arte e iconologia

Bibliography

The student will have to choose one of the reference manuals and two of the texts from the bibliography relative to the School of Parma.
Non-attending students must agree on the program with the teacher.

Reference manuals:
E. Wind,Misteri pagani del Rinascimento, Milano Adelphi, 2009
E. Panofsky, Studi di iconologia. I temi umanistici nell’arte del Rinascimento, Torino Einaudi, 1995
R. Wittkower, Allegoria e migrazione dei simboli, Torino Einaudi 1987
E. Gombrich, Immagini simboliche, Torino Einaudi 1997
K. Gielhlow, Hieroglyphica. La conoscenza umanistica dei geroglifici nell’allegoria del Rinascimento, una ipotesi, ed. italiana a cura di M. Ghelardi e S. Mueller, Nino Aragno editore, Torino 2004;
F. A. Yates, L'arte della memoria, Torino Einaudi 2004;
F. Saxl, La storia delle immagini, Bari Editori Laterza, 2005;
M. Gabriele, Alchimia e Iconologia, Forum editrice universitaria udinese, Udine 2008;
Bibliografia sulla Scuola di Parma:
Correggio:
E. Fadda, Come in un rebus: Correggio e la camera di San Paolo, Firenze Olschki, Biblioteca dell’Archivium Romanicum, 2018 + E. Fadda, “Et così mi chiamo contento”: Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio, l’uomo e l’artista attraverso la lettura dei documenti, in Correggio e l’antico, catalogo della mostra (Roma, Galleria Borghese 22 maggio – 14 settembre 2008) a cura di A. Coliva, Milano Motta, 24Ore cultura, 2008, pp. 182 – 185.
Parmigianino
1. E. Fadda, Parmigianino ‘mio amicissimo’ a Roma, in Correggio e Parmigianino. Arte a Parma nel Cinquecento (Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale 12 marzo – 26 giugno 2016) a cura di D. Ekserdjian, Silvana ed. Cinisello Balsamo 2016, pp. 49 – 59 + E. Fadda, Arte e alchimia negli ultimi anni del Parmigianino, in L’Art de la Renaissance entre science et magie, atti del Colloque International, (Paris, Université Paris I Sorbonne, Centre d’histoire de l’Art de la Renaissance, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, 20, 21, 22 giugno 2002) a cura di Philippe Morel, Paris, Collection d’histoire de l’art de l’Académie de France à Rome, Somogy éditions d'art 2006, pp. 295 - 324 + E. Fadda, Un ‘soggetto acquaticcio’: Diana al bagno. Negli affreschi di Parmigianino a Fontanellato il ritratto emblematico dei committenti, in Il mito di Diana Arte, letteratura, musica, (atti del convegno, Reggia di Venaria, 2010) a cura di A. Colturato, G. Barberi Squarotti, C. Goria, Leo Olschki, Firenze 2018, pp. 55 – 82;
2. E. Fadda, Parmigianino ‘mio amicissimo’ a Roma, in Correggio e Parmigianino. Arte a Parma nel Cinquecento (Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale 12 marzo – 26 giugno 2016) a cura di D. Ekserdjian, Silvana ed. Cinisello Balsamo 2016, pp. 49 – 59 + E. Fadda, Da Parma a Casalmaggiore, Parmigianino ultimo atto, in Parmigianino e la pratica dell’alchimia, catalogo della mostra a cura di F. Del Torre, E. Fadda, M. Gabriele, S. Feryno-Pagden, Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo 2003, pp. 39 – 49; + M. Gabriele, Linguaggi alchemici e iconografia cristiana in Parmigianino e la pratica dell’alchimia, catalogo della mostra cit. 2003, pp.19 – 37.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with slides, and guided tours to the art places of the city

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation will consist of an oral test, inherent specifically i
topics covered in the course and those included in the recommended bibliography. A question will be on a topic chosen by the candidate. A fail is determined by the lack of an understanding of the minimum content of the course, the inability to express oneself adequately, by a lack of autonomous preparation, the inability to solve problems related to information retrieval and the decoding of complex texts, as well as an inability to make independent judgments. A pass (18-23/30) is determined by the student’s possession of the minimum, fundamental contents of the course, an adequate level of autonomous preparation and ability to solve problems related to information retrieval and the decoding of complex texts, as well as an acceptable level of ability in making independent judgments. Middle-range scores (24-27/30) are assigned to the student who produces evidence of a more than sufficient level (24-25/30) or good level (26-27/30) in the evaluation indicators listed above. Higher scores (from 28/30 to 30/30 cum laude) are awarded on the basis of the student’s demonstration of a very good or excellent level in the evaluation indicators listed above

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