The course aims to illustrate the story and characters of the archaeological collections from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, through the analysis of acquisitions and events of some Italian collections of sculpture and ancient ceramics. The course will follow an archeological between public museums and private collections. |
The pre-requisites needed to address this training course are a basic knowledge of the history and archeology of the historical, political and cultural from the Renaissance to modern times. |
At the end of the training provided by this course the student will know in detail one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of collecting, that of collecting archaeological, with its beginnings in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and its formative stage in the great period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The student will also have the opportunity to deepen the knowledge of the formation of public museums from the Renaissance to the present. |
The topics covered in the course through the video lessons and support materials are the study of classical antiquity in the Middle Ages, the genesis and character of archaeological collections in the age of Humanism and Renaissance, and the formation of princely collections in the Baroque period, the birth of the public museum between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the establishment of national museums. |
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, The ancient in the history of taste. The seduction of classical sculpture 1500-1900 , Torino, Einaudi 1984.
- Roberto Weiss, The discovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance , Padua, Antenor Publishing, 1989. |
In the bottom of each is connected macroargomento an exercise summary of the main topics covered in the related video lessons, which is divided into 6 questions (including 3 closed questions and 3 constructed response) and may be useful to the student as a path of self-learning . The student is not required to send to your tutor the answers to these questions, but may require clarification and support in the event you should find, through the path of self, learning on specific topics. |
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