History of Artistic Literature

Features of the History of Art Literature and a case study: Quando anche le donne si misero a dipingere.

Part A : Introduction. History of Art Literature from Vitruvio to Vasari. General Features.
Part B: History of Art Literature after Vasari up to the first History of Art Chair in Italy. Themes and insights.
Part C : A case study: Quando anche le donne si misero a dipingere.

Part A
Introduction. History of Art Literature from Vitruvio to Vasari. General Features.

Julius Schlosser Magnino, La Letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1964.
This book is out of catalogue, but students can download it (in Italian for free) from the official website of the Heidelberg University :
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schlosser1964/0052/ocr

Students will study the following chapters of the book
- I libro = from Chapter I, number 2.-Nell'Occidente latino; please study: A), B), C) excluding parts written in small size fonts, D); Chapter II; Chapter III: please study starting from number 2, La bottega del Trecento.
- II libro = please study Chapter I, La Letteratura storica, excluding parts written in small size fonts; Chapter cap. II, I teorici del primo Rinascimento, excluding parts written in small size fonts; Chapter IV, Sulle tesi teorico artistiche del primo Rinascimento and Chapter V, excluding parts written in small size fonts.
- IV libro = Chapter III, please study: Continuazione degli studi su Vitruvio, excluding parts written in small size fonts.
- V libro = Il Vasari: please study it, excluding final bibliography.

Many fundamental topics (like Vitruvio, Plinio, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio etc) will be illustrated during classes gradually available on the website:
ariel.unimi.it, Storia della Letteratura artistica.

Part B
History of Art Literature after Vasari up to the first History of Art Chair in Italy. Themes and insights.

Julius Schlosser Magnino, La Letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1964.

This book is out of catalogue, but students can download it (in Italian for free) from the official website of the Heidelberg University :
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schlosser1964/0052/ocr
Students will study the following chapters of the book :
- VI libro = please study Chapter I, Scritti storici e periegesi, and Chapter II, Gli scritti sulla teoria dell'arte nel periodo del Manierismo, excluding parts written in small size fonts.
- VII libro = please study Chapter I, La storia universale romano-fiorentina, and Chapter III, Alcune osservazioni , excluding parts written in small size fonts.
- VIII libro = please study Chapter I, La storiografia artistica locale, excluding parts written in small size fonts, and Chapter II, La letteratura dei Ciceroni, up to the end of the section about Giovanni Battista Marino.
- IX libro = please study Chapter I, La teoria artistica italiana del secolo XVII, excluding parts written in small size fonts.

This book (Schlosser) ends with Neoclassicism; please add, and study, from:
Ferdinando Bologna, La coscienza storica dell'arte in Italia. Introduzione alla "Storia dell'Arte in Italia", Torino UTET 1982 oppure Milano Garzanti, 1992.
- Chapter VI (Dalle Scuole seicentesche al "Sistema delle Scuole" di Luigi Lanzi),
- Chapter VII (Dall'Ottocento a Longhi. L'Italia artistica tra soppressione ideologica delle diversità e recupero comparato delle culture locali)
- Conclusion
This book is out of catalogue, but students can download these selected chapters from the website:
ariel.unimi.it, Storia della Letteratura artistica.

And then, please add and study:
Udo Kultermann, Storia della Storia dell'arte, Vicenza Neri Pozza 1997,
from p. 39 to p. 229, excluding pp. 113-115; 183-190, 198- 202, 219-220.
This book is out of catalogue, but students can download these selected parts from the website: ariel.unimi.it, Storia della Letteratura artistica.

Many fundamental topics will be illustrated during classes gradually available on the website:
ariel.unimi.it, Storia della Letteratura artistica

Part C : A case study: Quando anche le donne si misero a dipingere.

The title of this third part is borrowed from a book by Anna Banti (1982), who many years earlier, in 1947, had published Artemisia, an important text in twentieth-century Italian literature.
Briefly, this cycle (which constitutes the monographic section of the course) will cover the main 16th and early 17th century sources devoted to the first Italian women artists (Vasari, Lomazzo, Morigia, De Ribera, letters), collected in a concise pdf anthology that will be made available to students on the ARIEL platform shortly after the lessons (not before: the course is composed while it is being shown to students).
Finally, the cycle will conclude with a commentary on
Anna Banti, Artemisia [1947],
the reading of which will form an integral part of the preparation for the 9 CFU course, together with the anthologised texts (Vasari, Lomazzo, Morigia, De Ribera) and with the powerpoints of the lectures, made available to the students on ARIEL after their presentation in class.
The most recent edition of Artemisia is by the Milanese publisher SE, but there are many prints on the market, even used ones: from the first, Sansoni 1947, to the Mondadori or Bompiani editions. The important thing is to read the book and thus arrive prepared for the exam.

Not attendant students will read:
Rudolf e Margot Wittkover, Nati sotto Saturno. La figura dell'artista dall'antichità alla Rivoluzione francese, Torino, Einaudi 2016