Museology and History of Collecting
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The aim of the teaching is to provide students with skills in the analysis of historical and contemporary displays in museums and temporary exhibitions, enabling them to read critical choices within the context of the contemporary art history studies, the connections with the restoration solutions of works of art and with their conservative needs, the relevance of the architectural choices.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: knowledge on the Italian exhibition culture of the first half of the 20th century, analyzed within the European and American context;
Applying knowledge and understanding: Acquisition of tools useful for orientation in the history of museology and museography; critical tools useful to read in the exhibitions the reasons of art criticism, the culture of restoration and conservation and of architecture.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Acquisition of tools useful for orientation in the history of museology and museography; critical tools useful to read in the exhibitions the reasons of art criticism, the culture of restoration and conservation and of architecture.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
If the Covid-19 emergency should continue even in 2021, teaching will be delivered online, by a blend of synchronous and asynchronous telematic teaching, through Ariel and Teams. Students will find all the information to access the online lessons (links etc.) and any adjustment to the course program and bibliography by checking the course teaching site on Ariel, at the beginning of the 2nd semester. If it will be required by health emergency, students will take the examination online, through the Teams platform, according to the procedures that will be notified on the Ariel page at the end of the course lessons.
Course syllabus
Part A (History of Collections) - prof. Rossana Sacchi
Title: L'Ambrosiana di Milano: una delle prime pinacoteche pubbliche del mondo. La costituzione della raccolta tra il XVI e il XVII secolo.
Bibliography
P. Prodi, Borromeo, Federico, ad vocem in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Roma, 1971 (disponibile on-line)
A.Rovetta, Storia della Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. 1. Da Federico Borrmeo alla fine del Settecento, in Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. Tomo primo, Milano, Electa, 2205, pp. 15-45 (collana Musei e Gallerie di Milano) (il pdf di questo testo sarà caricato sulla piattaforma Ariel).
A. Squizzato, Dai codicillli testamentari (1607; 1611) all'atto di Donazione del 1618: riflessioni per il lascito federiciano di opere d'arte all'Ambrosiana, in La donazione della raccolta d'arte di Federico Borromeo all'Ambrosiana 1618-2018, a cura di A. Rocca, A. Rovetta e A. Squizzato, Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana-Centro Ambrosiano, 2019, pp. 119-148 (il pdf di questo testo sarà caricato sulla piattaforma Ariel).
G. Berra, Il "Paradiso" commissionato dal conte Giovanni Borromeo, nipote del cardinal Federico, a Jan Brueghel il vecchio, pdf disponibile in www.aboutartonline.com, 6 settembre 2020.
Slides showed during lesson (images and texts) form an integral part of the exam preparation.
Part B: Museology - prof. Melania Savino
Title: Storia delle istituzioni museali
Bibliography
ARONSSON, P. & ELGENIUS, G. (eds.) 2011. Building National Museums in Europe 1750-2010. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. (1 capitolo a scelta, ossia un paese a scelta).
Disponibile qui: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:450373/FULLTEXT01.pdf
FIORIO, M. T. 2018. Il museo nella storia: dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica. Milano, Torino: Pearson.
KNELL. S. et al. (ed.) 2011. National Museums. New Studies from around the World. London & New York: Routledge. (capitoli 1-2-3) capitoli resi disponibili sulla piattaforma Ariel
Part C: Museology - prof. Melania Savino
Title: Elementi pratici per lo studio dei musei
Bibliography:
CLARELLI, M. V. M. 2005. Che cos'è un museo. Roma: Carocci.
MacDONALD, S. (ed.) 2006. A Companion to Museum Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (capitoli 11-20-28) disponibile online attraverso Minerva
Slides showed during lesson (images and texts) form an integral part of the exam preparation.
Title: L'Ambrosiana di Milano: una delle prime pinacoteche pubbliche del mondo. La costituzione della raccolta tra il XVI e il XVII secolo.
Bibliography
P. Prodi, Borromeo, Federico, ad vocem in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Roma, 1971 (disponibile on-line)
A.Rovetta, Storia della Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. 1. Da Federico Borrmeo alla fine del Settecento, in Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. Tomo primo, Milano, Electa, 2205, pp. 15-45 (collana Musei e Gallerie di Milano) (il pdf di questo testo sarà caricato sulla piattaforma Ariel).
A. Squizzato, Dai codicillli testamentari (1607; 1611) all'atto di Donazione del 1618: riflessioni per il lascito federiciano di opere d'arte all'Ambrosiana, in La donazione della raccolta d'arte di Federico Borromeo all'Ambrosiana 1618-2018, a cura di A. Rocca, A. Rovetta e A. Squizzato, Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana-Centro Ambrosiano, 2019, pp. 119-148 (il pdf di questo testo sarà caricato sulla piattaforma Ariel).
G. Berra, Il "Paradiso" commissionato dal conte Giovanni Borromeo, nipote del cardinal Federico, a Jan Brueghel il vecchio, pdf disponibile in www.aboutartonline.com, 6 settembre 2020.
Slides showed during lesson (images and texts) form an integral part of the exam preparation.
Part B: Museology - prof. Melania Savino
Title: Storia delle istituzioni museali
Bibliography
ARONSSON, P. & ELGENIUS, G. (eds.) 2011. Building National Museums in Europe 1750-2010. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. (1 capitolo a scelta, ossia un paese a scelta).
Disponibile qui: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:450373/FULLTEXT01.pdf
FIORIO, M. T. 2018. Il museo nella storia: dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica. Milano, Torino: Pearson.
KNELL. S. et al. (ed.) 2011. National Museums. New Studies from around the World. London & New York: Routledge. (capitoli 1-2-3) capitoli resi disponibili sulla piattaforma Ariel
Part C: Museology - prof. Melania Savino
Title: Elementi pratici per lo studio dei musei
Bibliography:
CLARELLI, M. V. M. 2005. Che cos'è un museo. Roma: Carocci.
MacDONALD, S. (ed.) 2006. A Companion to Museum Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (capitoli 11-20-28) disponibile online attraverso Minerva
Slides showed during lesson (images and texts) form an integral part of the exam preparation.
Prerequisites for admission
Basic knowledge of modern and contemporary Art History
Teaching methods
Lessons.
Guest lectures, visits to museums, whose schedule will be provided during the lessons.
Guest lectures, visits to museums, whose schedule will be provided during the lessons.
Teaching Resources
Please, see all informations in Programma, Inglese.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral exam will be aimed at assessing the knowledge acquired, the ability in contextualizing the exhibition culture of the periods covered in the course, the method of analyzing the sources and the critical bibliography. The images provided in PDF are essential for exam preparation.
It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography.
It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography.
Unita' didattica A
L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Sacchi Rossana
Unita' didattica B
L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Savino Melania Cesarangela
Unita' didattica C
L-ART/04 - MUSEOLOGY, ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Savino Melania Cesarangela
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