Venetian Art History

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This course provides an introduction to Italian art history within the context of the history of Venice. Through lectures and visits to the city’s main sites of interest such as Ca’ Rezzonico, Palazzo Grimani, Basilica dei Frari and other important monuments, the course will focus on the analysis of Venice’s most meaningful works of art and the vicissitudes of its famous artists, and will gain a better understanding of what has come to constitute the myth of this enchanted city.

In particular, the course, moving between the 15th and 18th centuries, intends to explain how art evolved in the lagoon between the Renaissance and Rococo periods, reading works of painting, sculpture and architecture in relation to the social and cultural context in which they were created, in order to discover how State, Church and private citizens concurred in shaping the image of the Serenissima Republic through the centuries

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Anyone interested in this topic

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