PRINCIPLES OF ART HISTORY (UNIT B)

The goal of the course is to provide a general overview of the major themes in medieval civilisation, starting from urban studies and including analysis of individual buildings and their interior pictorial decorations, furnishings, etc. An evolutional approach tends to be avoided, and with it that model inherited by students from secondary school teaching, replacing it with new research methods to be used for medieval culture. Within this context, the lessons on technique, functioning of the medieval workshop, the function of the scriptorium, monastic schools and cathedrals, and the relationship between religious power and civil power, given the role of patron of both during the Middle Ages.