Iconology and Iconography

The course aims to provide new elements for students to help them 'read' images through a series of exercises in formal analysis, in-depth historical and patronage analysis, and iconographic investigation. Questions about "how do we arrive at - or have arrived at - an attribution?", "what might be the function of the work?", "how do we relate it to the artistic context from which it came?" will be able to be answered and contribute to students' educational and critical growth.

Students, by the end of the course, will see their ability to approach the forms of the artwork consolidated, having in mind what are the fundamental elements to be taken into account: the style of the work, its subject, its possible function, the technique with which it is executed, its current location and the context from which it came, as well as its relationship to works of the same period and of other artists in contact with the author.