Art History in Italian online

PROGRAM (DECEMBER 2020 – MARCH 2021):

DECEMBER

Tuesday 1 December: Metaphysical painting in Italy: Giorgio De Chirico and the birth of a Movement

Thursday 3 December: Modern forms with an ancient solemnity: sculpture from Arturo Martini to Alberto Giacometti

Thursday 10 December: Neorealism and Informal: Renato Guttuso and Emilio Vedova's experiences in post-war Italian painting

Tuesday 15 December: From Space to Matter: Lucio Fontana, Paolo Scheggi, Antonio Burri and Piero Manzoni

Thursday 17 December: Still life from Pompeii to Caravaggio (to not forget the legacy of the ancients)

Tuesday 22 December: The Rococo style in Turin and Venice: between Architecture and Painting (to discover the new face of two great cities)

Tuesday 29 December: Sculpture in Italy between 1700 and 1800: from Canova to Vela (to admire the “beautiful” and the “real”)

JANUARY

Monday, 4 January: Leonardo and Science (to read Art looking at science)

Tuesday, 5 January: Sculpture in motion - from Donatello to Bernini (to find a breath of life in Art)

Tuesday, 12 January: Medieval Florence, from Mosaic to Fresco (to understand how the art language changes)

Thursday, 14 January: Masaccio and the beginning of modern painting (to discover a great young artist)

Tuesday, 19 January: Two architects compared, Brunelleschi and Michelangelo (to enter the spaces of art)

Thursday, 21 January: The history of a great friendship, Sandro Botticelli, Filippo and Filippino Lippi (to discover that art is also complicity)

Tuesday 26 January: Raphael, a painter loved by the Medici family (to remember the Medici’s great passions)

Thursday, 28 January: War, myth and love - Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio and Rubens (to reflect on the grat themes of art)

FEBRUARY

Tuesday, 2 February: Mannerism, the extravagant painting style in Italy (to discover a Renaissance movement)

Thursday, 4 February: Caravaggio and his influence on the Dutch painting (to understand how one learns how to travel)

Tuesday, 9 February: Architecture between Renaissance and Baroque, from Palladio to Borromini (to understand the imaginative evolutions)

Thursday, 11 February: Baroque painting in Italy - Bologna, Rome and Naples (to travel with art)

Tuesday, 16 February: Still life in Pompei and Caravaggio (to not forget the Antiques’ legacy)

Thursday, 18 February: Rococò style in Torino and Venezia, from architecture to painting (to discover the new face of two great cities)

Tuesday, 23 February: Sculpture in Italy from the XVII and XVIII century, from Canova to Vela (to admire the “beautiful” and the “real”)

Thursday, 25 February: Tuscany and the “Macchiaioli” painters (to discover “macchia” painting)

MARCH

Tuesday, 2 March: Female painting in Italy, chapter 1 - From the Renaissance to the 18th century! (to follow the path of women in art)

Thursday, 4 March: Female painting in Italy chapter 2 - Between 1800 and 1900!

Tuesday, 9 March: Caffè le Giubbe Rosse in Florence - the history of the Futurists from Paris to Italy (to discover the power of new ideas)

Thursday, 11 March: The “cursed” painter Amedeo Modigliani between Livorno and Paris (to learn about the life of a special artist)

Tuesday, 16 March: The “metaphysic” painting in Italy - Giorgio De Chirico and the birth of a movement (1912-20)

Thursday, 18 March: The modern forms of antique solemnity - sculpture from Arturo Martini and Alberto Giacometti.

Tuesday 23 March: Neorealism and informal art - The experiences of Renato Guttuso and Emilio Vedova in the Italian Post-war painting.

Thursday 25 March: From space to matter - Lucio Fontana, Paolo Scheggi, Antonio Burri, Piero Manzoni