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Florence Academy of Italian Music, Art
and Italian Language.
Italian Art History and Culture Courses
Art History
The professor will outline a historic profile and a general view of Italian art, placing particular importance of the Florentine Renaissance.
Many of the lessons will take place outside the school, as the students visit museums, monuments, galleries and exhibits relevant to the course material. Some works will also be studied through the use of slides and videos.
The topics of the course are:
- Cimabue, Giotto and Duccio: the Tuscan painters of the 13th cent
- Filippo Brunelleschi: The renewal of Florentine architecture
- Donatello and the rebirth of Florentine sculpture
- Painting in the Early Renaissance: Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello: the birth of perspective
- The Quattrocento and art at the time of the Medici: Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Leonardo da Vinci: l'apice del Rinascimento.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael: the climax of the Renaissance
- Mannerism
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History of Literature
The panorama of Italian Literature extremely vast; yet it is possible to trace a few guidelines that can help in understanding its most interesting and innovative themes. The students will learn to understand even the more complex texts through the guidance and explanation of the professor who will help them by putting into context works and events.
The topics of the course are:
- Italian literature from the origins: the Sicilian school and the Bolognese school
- Poetry at the time of Dante: Lapo Gianni, Cino da Pistoia, Guido Cavalcanti
- Dante and the "Divine Comedy"
- Petrarca and Boccaccio: the birth of Humanism
- Literature and the Renaissance: Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolo Machivelli
- Letteratura e Rinascimento: Ludovico Ariosto e Niccolo Machiavelli
- Literature and the Counter-Reformation: Torquato Tasso
- The 17th century, the Baroque and Arcadia
- The 18th century, between Enlightenment, Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Vittorio Alfieri and Carlo Goldoni
- The Romantic period: Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi
- Alessandro Manzoni and the literature of the Unity of Italy
- The age of Verismo: Verga and Pirandello
- Gabriele D'Annunzio and the literature of Decadentismo
- Eremitism and the new lyrical poets: Ungaretti and Quasimodo
- The season of Neorealism: Moravia, Pavese and Bassani
- Contemporary literature: Calvino, Pasolini and Umberto Eco
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History of Italian Cinema
During the aftermath World War II, Italian cinema underwent an evolution, creating new ideas, original themes, and some of cinema's greatest film-makers. The rapport that Italian cinema has maintained with literature and Italian history of the late 20th cent. is emblematic. With the support of videos and DVDs, students will study the history of Italian cinema and will analyze its more peculiar moments.
Gli argomenti principali del corso sono:
- Neo-realism: De Sica and Rossellini
- The Italian Comedy: Dino Risi
- La commedia all'italiana: Dino Risi e Mario Monicelli
- The phenomenal Toto
- The Imagination of Fellini
- Massimo Troisi: Naples amongst cinema, poetry and theater
- Roberto Begnini: from the Comedy to Fellini
- Gabriele Salvatores, Giuseppe Tornatore and Ettore Scola: cinema and its history
- The new Italian film-makers: Amelio, Muccino, Soldini and Archibugi
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History of Contemporary Italy
This course reviews the social and political history Italy in the second half of the 20th century. Students will analyze the transformations that conducted Italy from Fascism to becoming a Republic and member of the European union, all in the brief span of a few decades.
The topics of the course are:
- The coming of Fascism and Mussolini: from a Monarchy to a Dictatorship
- The second world war
- The end of WWII and of Fascism
- The Partisan phenomenon, the Constitution and the Republic
- Italy during the reconstruction
- The 1950's and the economic boom
- Emigration and the economic and social changes
- The 1960's and the evolution of the big political parties: the center left, the Cristian Democrats, the Communist Party and the Socialist
- The 1970's and the season of violence: mafia, massacres and terrorism
- The economic crisis of the 1980's
- "Tangentopoli" the transformation of the large political parties, the new electoral laws and New Politics
- Italy in the European Union and the new political figures
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History of Italian Theater
A large part of Italy's most authentic regional culture is expressed through theater, and, like the tradition of the Commedia dell'Arte, many theatrical works were written by the actors themselves, resulting in a very personal and direct relationship between actor and audience.
Through the use of multimedia aids, students will study the history of Italian theatre, its "language" and its regional particularities.
The topics of the course are:
- The origins of theater: traveling bards and street artists
- Re-enactments of sacred events
- The Commedia dell'Arte and the masks
- The Renaissance and Court comedies
- The Arcadia and Metastasio theaters
- The 18th century: from tragedies to the bourgeois comedy: Vittorio Alfieri and Carlo Goldoni
- The 19th century of Giacomo Manzoni
- Luigi Pirandello
- Edoardo De Filippo and the Neapolitan tradition
- The contemporary theater of Dario Fo
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Short Courses
Academy can organize short courses in Art History for those students who are in Florence only a short period of time, but who wish to take advantage of the cityÕs rich artistic patrimony. An art history instructor will accompany them on visits to the monuments, museums, churches, piazzas, villas, and art exhibits.
The short courses can last from 2 days to one week, with the daily lessons varying from 4 to 8.
Students may also choose or suggest a special topic of their interest.
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