BASA040 - L'ATTUALITA' DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE: ICONOGRAFIA E ICONOLOGIA

courses
ID:
BASA040
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
STORIA DELL'ARTE MEDIEVALE
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
BENI ARCHEOLOGICI E STORICO-ARTISTICI/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives



To acquire a historical, stylistic and iconological knowledge of medieval papal representation.
To identify and apply the main methodological instruments needed to write a historical and artistic research essay based primarily on a stylistic, iconographical and iconological analysis of an art work and the political and religious context in which it was produced.

To acquire and apply the principle scientific instruments in order to produce a clear, precise and succinct oral presentation of a theme relating to medieval papal representation.

Course Prerequisites


It is recommended for students that have already attended the Medieval History course

Teaching Methods


Frontal lectures, written tests, visits of cultural sites and museums

Assessment Methods


Oral exam with marks out of 30, aimed at verifying the ability to expose with clarity and autonomy of judgment the topics presented during the course.
Essays on one of the topics presented by the professor during lectures. ​​​​​​​

Texts



- Agostino PARAVICINI BAGLIANI, Le Chiavi e la Tiara. Immagini e simboli del papato medievale, («La corte dei papi, 3»), Viella, Roma 2005.
- Mario D’ONOFRIO, Per un profilo della committenza artistica dei papi a Roma nel Medioevo, in La committenza artistica dei Papi a Roma nel Medioevo, Mario D’ONOFRIO (a cura di), Viella, Roma 2016, pp. 7-49.
- Francesco GANDOLFO, Il ritratto di committenza, in Arte e iconografia a Roma, Maria ANDALORO, Serena ROMANO (a cura di), Jaca book, Milano 2002, pp. 139-149.
- Claudia D'ALBERTO, La rappresentazione del potere papale fra Roma e Avignone (1308-1362), in La Storia e le Immagini della Storia, Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi (Ferrara 14-15 Ottobre 2014), a cura di M. PROVASI, C. VICENTINI, Viella, Roma 2015, pp. 37-60.
- Laura DI CALISTO, Devozione per immagini al tempo di Martino V, («Mezzogiorno medievale, 8»), Ed. ZiP, Pescara 2012 (pp. 103-115).
- Claudia D'ALBERTO, Le pape vicaire du Christ et sa tiare, in «RIVISTA D'ARTE. PERIODICO INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELL’ARTE MEDIEVALE E MODERNA», VII (2017), MÉLANGES OFFERTS À FABIENNE JOUBERT. Faire et bien faire. Commande et création artistiques au Moyen Âge, sous la direction de Borlée D. et Rivière Ciavaldini L., pp. 167-181.
- 12. D'ALBERTO C., IMAGO PAPAE, IMAGO PAPAE Le pape en image du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine, a cura di C. D’Alberto, pp. 17-39, Roma, Campisano Editore 2020.

N.B.: Non-attending students are requested to study, in addition to the above-mentioned program, the entire book La committenza artistica dei Papi a Roma nel Medioevo, Mario D’ONOFRIO (a cura di), Viella, Roma 2016.



Contents


The extraordinary moment that the Papacy has experienced in its recent past (papal abdication, two Popes, three papal canonizations, three Jubilees) is the premise for investigating the problem of papal representation which since its origins has constituted a complex issue due to the numerous ecclesiological implications that it implies.
The starting point for analysis will be the image of the “pope commissioner” depicted on the apses of some of the major Roman basilicas, and subsequently the ‘realistic portraits’ of the papal recumbent effigies (gisants) of the 13th century. Particular attention will be given to the programmatic campaign for images created by Boniface VIII (1294-1303) and to the transformations the papal self-representations underwent during the Avignon papacy (1308-1378) and during the Great Western Schism, when the concurrent presence of two and, at a later point, three schismatic popes laid the foundation for the collation of the manuscript prophecies concerning the papacy known as the Vaticinia Pontificum. The course will conclude by examining the papacy of Martin V (1417-1431) which paved the way for Humanism, following the demands for renewal set out by the Council of Constance of 1417 and the requests for the recovery of the Roman “essence” of the papacy.
These great themes are also read through the lens of artistic creativity, particularly cinematographic (P. Sorrentino The Young Pope, W. Wenders A Man of His Word ​​​​​​​ etc.), which allows, like current history, to reflect on how the Pope is the most important legacy that the Middle Ages have transmitted to the contemporary age.

Course Language


Italian

More information


During the lessons some recommended readings will be indicated. ​​​​​​​

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