Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide an introductory historical framework of the emergence of modern art criticism focusing on the critical experiments of art journalism at the end of Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries as distinctive phenomena in figurative culture both in Italy and Europe; will be providing methodological tools for understanding the system of art and the critic perspective from the Salons of Denis Diderot until the beginning of Nazarenes experience in l809 that invest modern painting with the purity of form and spiritual values of the early Renaissance painting

L. Barroero, Le arti e i lumi. Pittura e scultura da Piranesi a Canova, Torino, Einaudi, 2011
S. Rolfi, "Agli Amatori delle Belle Arti. Gli autori". Il laboratorio dei periodici a Roma tra Settecento e Ottocento, Roma, Campisano, 2012