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Teacher
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Longo Ruggero
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The course aims to provide students with a general background in the visual arts and ornament in the Medieval Mediterranean arena, retracing the main stages of historiography on the subject.
Through selected case studies (Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, San Vitale in Ravenna and the Great Mosque of Cordova, the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and San Lorenzo f.l.m. in Rome), an in-depth study of transcultural relationships between East and West in the 6th-13th centuries and among different visual, ornamental and esthetic languages will be provided.
(reference books)
Una selezione di capitoli e articoli sarà offerta dai seguenti testi di riferimento:
Ettinghausen, Richard, Grabar Oleg, Islamic art and architecture, 650 – 1250, New Haven [u.a.] : Yale University Press, 2001
Fobelli, Maria Luigia, Un tempio per Giustiniano : Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la Descrizione di Paolo Silenziario, Roma : Viella, 2005
Gardner's Art through the Ages: Backpack Edition, Book B: The Middle Ages, by Fred Kleiner
Cengage Learning, Inc, 2015
Gombrich, Ernst H., Art and illusion : a study in the psychology of pictorial representation. New York : Pantheon Books, 1960
Gombrich, Ernst H., The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art, Wien 2002
Grabar, Oleg, The formation of Islamic Art, Yale University Press 1973
Grabar, Oleg, The mediation of Ornament. Princeton Univ. Press 1992
Grabar, André, Les origines de l’esthétique médiévale, Paris : Macula, 1992
Grube, Ernst J., The painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina,London [u.a.] : Saffron Books [u.a.], 2005
Oleg Grabar, The experience of Islamic Art, in: The experience of Islamic art on the margins of Islam, 2005, 11-59, in part. The so-called mantle of Roger II, 30-48
Grabar, Oleg, “Trade with the east and the influence of Islamic art on the «luxury arts» in the west”, in Il Medio Oriente e l’Occidente nell’arte del XIII secolo, edited by Hans Belting (Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1982) 27-32
Hahn, Cynthia J., ed., Seeking transparency : rock crystals across the medieval Mediterranean.
Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020
Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic art and architecture , London : Thames and Hudson, 1999
Hillenbrand, Robert, Studies in the islamic decorative arts London : Pindar Press, 2019
Jacoby, David, “Silk and silk textiles in Arab and Norman Sicily: the economic context”, Andaloro, Maria. Nobiles Officinae: perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal palazzo reale di Palermo. Catania, Maimone, 2006, 2 vols., vol. 2 pp. 133-143 [with English translation pp. 383-389]
James, Liz, Mosaics in the medieval world : from late antiquity to the fifteenth century.
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Kitzinger, Ernst, Byzantine art in the making : Main lines of stylistic development in mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ.Pr., 1977
Johns, Jeremy, “Arabic Inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina: Performativity, Audience, Legibility and Illegibility”, in Eastmond, Antony (ed.), Viewing inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 124–147.
Longo, Ruggero, Le decorazioni in opus sectile della Cappella Palatina di Palermo – Nuovi materiali per nuove ricerche, in La Cappella Palatina a Palermo. Storia, arte, funzione, edited by Thomas Dittelbach, Künzelsau, Swiridoff 2011, English version pp. 344-351
Longo, Ruggero, Opus sectile a Palermo nel secolo XII. Sinergie e mutuazioni nei cantieri di Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio e della Cappella Palatina, in Byzantino-Sicula VI: La Sicilia e Bisanzio nei secoli XI e XII. Atti delle X Giornate di Studio della Associazione Italiana di Studi (Palermo, 27-28 Maggio 2011), edited by Renata Lavagnini e Cristina Rognoni, «Quaderni dell’Istituto siciliano di studi bizantini e neoellenici “Bruno Lavagnini”», 18, Palermo 2014, pp. 299-342
Forma e sostanza. Aspetti materiali ed estetici nella concezione dello spazio sacro nel meridione normanno-svevo in (In)materialidad en el arte medieval XIV Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval, 11-12 novembre 2021 Madrid, Facultad de Geografia e Historia, UCM, 2023
Mango, Cyril A., Byzantine architecture, Faber and Faber, London 1978
Mango, Cyril (1986). Art of the Byzantine Empire, 352-1453: Sources and Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Gulru Necipoglu, The Topkapi scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture, 1995
Gülru Necipoğlu, The arts of ornamental geometry: a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures, Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural, Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017
Panofsky, Erwin, Meaning in the visual arts : papers in and on art history, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1955
Shapiro, The languages of forms. Lectures on insular manuscript art, New York 2005
Trilling, James, The language of ornament, Thames & Hudson, New York 2001
Oxford Dictionary s.v. ornament and patterns
Rosser-Owen, Mariam, Islamic Art from Span, Vicoria and Albert Museum, London 2010
Rice, David Talbot, Art of the Byzantine era , London : Thames and Hudson, 1963
Tronzo, William, The cultures of his kingdom: Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Princeton University Press, 1997
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