| CODE | ART1025 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Venetian Renaissance Art | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit will observe and analyse the art that was produced in this great maritime republic of Venice during the Renaissance period. The Venetian Republic was booming in the 15th and 16th centuries thanks to trade that resulted in an economic prosperity. The focus will be on several of the major artists of the period, as well as other contributors who actively made Venice a place were art could be easily acquired. There were also several cultural exchanges that shaped the Renaissance art of Venice, including Western, Northern and Eastern influences, thanks also to the diversity of people who lived in the Lagoon city. Venice’s connections with the east, particularly Byzantium, will be thoroughly explored. Such connections helped mould Venice’s cultural identity that differed to any other in Europe. The study-unit will also touch upon other artists who were active in nearby centres, as well as foreign artists who had an impact on Venetian art, and comparisons will be made with other prominent centres, such as Florence and Padua. This will also help to understand the context of Italian art as a whole Study-unit Aims: Venice has a culturally distinct art that emerged in the Renaissance period. The study unit aims to open up to an aspect of the history of art that is broad within itself, and which offers an understanding not only of Venetian Renaissance art, but that of other important centres as well. It will therefore seek to analyse how different the Venetian Renaissance was to that of mainland Italy. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate the stylistic elements that dominate Venetian Renaissance art and the artists who produced it; - explain the mechanics of patronage behind artistic commissions in the Venetian context; - understand the political issues that shaped the visual language of Renaissance Venice; - understand the trade and exchanges that characterised the maritime republic of Venice and how this affected the output of artists active during the Renaissance period. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - discuss the nature of Renaissance art in Venice; - broadly analyze the context of the major Venetian Renaissance works of art; - compare Renaissance Venetian art with that in Florence, and why it had such a late start and why and how it is different to the Florentine Renaissance; - report on the cultural exchange that went on in Renaissance Europe. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main texts: Peter Humfrey, Painting in Renaissance Venice, several editions. Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters Edmund Jephcott, The art of Renaissance Venice: architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590, University of Chicago Press, 1990. Supplementary readings: Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louise Brown eds, Renaissance Venice and the North: crosscurrents in the time of Bellini, Durer, and Titian, Rizzoli, 2000. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private lives in Renaissance Venice: art, architecture and the family, Yale University Press, 2004. Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice and antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past, Yale University Press, 1996. Paul Hills, Venetian colour: marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550, Yale University Press, 1999. Rona Goffen, ‘Icon and vision: Giovanni Bellini’s half length madonnas’, The Art Bulletin, 57, 1975, pp. 487–518. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charlene Vella |
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