Methodological introduction to the study of early modern art history; basic notions of artistic techniques.
Fundamentals of art history between XV and XVIII century with particular reference to the following topics:
The International Gothic; The Florentine early 15th century: Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio. The "discovery" of perspective, anatomy, human feelings; Piero della Francesca; The Renaissance in Northern Italy; Art in Southern Italy between Angevins and Aragonese: Antonello da Messina; Florence: The age of Lorenzo the Magnificent; The Modern Manner in Northern Italy; The Modern Manner between Florence and Rome; The great artistic sites in the Rome of Julius II and Leo X; Mannerism; The Art of the Counter-Reformation; The Carracci and the “Accademia degli Incamminati”; The followers of the Carracci; The activity of Caravaggio between Rome, Naples and Malta; The diffusion of Caravaggio's naturalism through the experiences of his followers; The affirmation of the Baroque language in Rome; Other centres of the Baroque; 17th century classicism; From the late Baroque to Arcadia; Giambattista Tiepolo; Vedutism.
Fundamentals of art history in Sardinia between the 15th and 18th century with particular reference to the following topics:
Late Gothic Sardinian-Catalan architecture; Catalan influence in painting and sculpture of the 15th century; The Master of Castelsardo; Sculpture between the 15th and 16th century; The School of Stampace; The Master of Ozieri; The first classicist examples and Jesuit architecture; Late Mannerist painting imported from Campania; Architecture of the 17th century in Sardinia; Wooden sculpture and the technique of the “estofado de oro”; Piedmontese military engineers; Foreign and local workers in 18th century painting; Wood sculpture of the 18th century between import and local production.