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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oy-Marra
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
07.092.030
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
Bologna is not one of Italy's major art centers like Venice, Florence and Rome. The city has acquired an ambivalent reputation at its universities as a result of the "Bologna Reform". Nevertheless, Bologna is today,one of the economically strong university cities in northern Italy. Its university is considered the oldest in Europe.
However, the city has been considered in history not only as a city of learning, but also for its art. It rose to prominence as an artistic center towards the end of the 16th century, when the Carracci family members, the brothers Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609), and their cousin Ludovico (1555-1619) set out to revolutionize painting. They turned against the style of Mannerism that prevailed in Italy and the ideal of art formulated by Vasari in his Lives and sought new paths. This resulted in programmatic paintings that depicted simple craftsmen and their work (such as "The Butcher's Shop" by Annibale Carracci).
The lecture will focus not only on the Carracci reform, but also on their teachers (Bartolommeo Passerotti 1529-1592; Denis Calvaert 1540-1619 from Antwerp, as well as their pupils, including Elisabetta Sirani). Of particular interest is also the widespread study of nature in Bologna, which was promoted by naturalists such as Ulisse Aldrovandi.
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