DU2368 Visualizing medieval Venice: Artistic production and cultural interchanges in Venice and surrounding

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
The class will be hold by Ilaria Molteni (Université de Liège) in a block-course from the 29th November to the 2nd December 2021.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The artistic production of medieval Venice provides a privileged point of view to study the strategies through which the ruling classes stage and visualise the city's founding myths, values, and memory. This course will study Venetian artistic production from a broad chronological perspective (9th-14th centuries) divided into four major cultural-historical sections: 1. Venice before Venice 2. The San Marco Basilica 3. The Fourth Crusade and hegemony over the Mediterranean 4. 14th-century Venice: in search of a new civic history All the major areas of Venetian artistic production will be considered: monumental settings and portable art; mosaics, sculptures, objects, manuscripts, paintings. The artworks will be studied in relation to the interchanges between Venice and the main Western and Eastern medieval centres ("Byzantine" space, Italian area, northern Europe). We will thus describe the specificities of Venetian art in the light of the city's position in the medieval space.
Syllabus
  • - Venice outside Venice : urban development and identity building Jesolo and Torcello The Dogi move to Venice
  • - San Marco : the centre of power 1063-1204 Architecture and sculpture The mosaics
  • - The Fourth Crusade: War loots and their status: exotic objects, relics, symbols of identity « Lingua franca?» Venice abroad
  • - The 14th century: rewriting civic identity The baptistery The Ducal palace
  • - Paolo Veneziano &c Painting in Venice Greek-Venetian Icons and Madonnas
  • - Circulation of artists and objects Venetian artists abroad and foreign artists in Venice The export of luxury goods
Literature
  • San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice, H. Maguire and R.S. Nelson eds., Washington D.C. 2010.
  • The Atrium of San Marco in venice. The Genesis and Medieval Reality of the Genesis Mosaics, M. Büchsel, H. L. Kessler and R. Müller eds., Berlin 2014.
  • Patricia Fortini brown, Venice and Antiquity: the Venetian Sense of the Past, New Haven 1996.
  • Hans Belting, “Dandolo’s Dreams: Venetian State Art and Byzantium”, in Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557): Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture, exhibition catalogue, S.T. Brooks ed., New York 2006, pp. 138-153.
  • Paolo Veneziano: the art of painting in 14th-century Venice, London 2021.
  • Stefania Gerevini, “The Grotto of the Virgin in San Marco: Artistic Reuse and Cultural Identity in Medieval Venice”, Gesta, LIII (2014), pp. 197-220.
  • Michele Bacci, “Icons of narratives: Greek-Venetian artistic interchange, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries”, in Receptions of Hellenism in early modern Europe, 15th-17th Centuries, N. Constantinidou and H. Lamers eds., Leiden/Boston 2020, pp. 173-188.
  • The Atrium of San Marco in venice. The Genesis and Medieval Reality of the Genesis Mosaics, M. Büchsel, H. L. Kessler and R. Müller eds., Berlin 2014.
  • E. Beaucamp and P. Cordez eds., Typical Venice? : the art of commodities, 13th-16th centuries, Turnhout, 2020.
  • Herbert Kessler, Serena Romano, “A Hub of Art. In, Out, and Around Venice, 1177-1499”, Convivium, VII/1 (2020), pp. 16-53.
  • Otto Demus, The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice, Chicago 1984, 2 voll.
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Assessment methods
Short essay
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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