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In 1806, the british writer George Tappen wrote in his description of Bologna: “The most remarkable feature in this city are the arcades on which the houses are built [...].” Bologna represents an unique case-study to understand the urban and architectural history of Italy. E.C.Co. program offers an unique in-house course on this topic, To Read a City: Urban History of Bologna since the Medieval Period taught by prof. Francesco Ceccarelli. The Urban center Bologna , located at the top floor of Salaborsa (Piazza Nettuno, 3) has a permanent exhibition displaying the urban strategies and projects which will map out the face of Bologna over the next fifteen years. The Center periodically organizes conferences and workshops. Continue reading →

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Fall : Art and The Counter-Reformation: The Carracci and Caravaggio
Professor Vera Fortunati

With the closing of the Council of Trent in 1563, the Catholic Church of Rome responded to the Protestant ban on the use of images in churches and official rites with new, highly didactic and religiously propagandistic, policies on art. In Bologna, the cardinal Gabriele Paleotti pushed for an intensive reform of the visual arts by publishing a treatise in 1582 which explained, with persuasive firmness, the criteria that the painters were supposed to follow in order to produce images that could communicate religious truths with clarity and decorum, while at the same time involving the faithful on an emotional level.
This cultural climate shaped the work of the Carracci – Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale – who inaugurated a new kind of painting. Their reform broke with late sixteenth-century traditions and opened itself up to a new kind of naturalism that merged the achievements of the great Renaissance masters with a new pathos that anticipated Baroque theatricality. In the same years,… Continue reading

History of art
Dott. Stefania Biancani
The course aims to give students the technical vocabulary they will need in History of Art courses taught in Italian, the opportunity to use that vocabulary in the discussion of various works of art, as well as an overview of the major genres and historical events of the Italian Renaissance. Students intending to enrol in the ECCO Art and Architecture course offered in the fall are required to attend an introductory course in September. Continue reading →

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Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
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“Gender and Women’s studies have an interdisciplinary character and deal with critical methodologies, theories of culture, transmission of knowledge, as well as textual re-readings from scientific and didactic perspectives, regarding either “classical” and “popular” culture”. The University of Bologna has a Center for Gender Studies and hosts the Women’s Documentation, Research and Initiative Centre (Piazza G. Morandi, 2). The Center’s library has one of the largest collection of books and periodicals related to Women’s studies in Italy. E.C.Co. offers a unique in-house course on Women Studies:Life and adventures of Italian Women from the Renaissance until today taught by Prof. Beatrice Collina Continue reading →

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