The course aims to provide an accurate overview of medieval art from the Late Antiquity to the Fourteenth century (4th-14th centuries), especially in the Italian peninsula, but with an open gaze to the entire European continent.
The medieval artwork will be analyzed in its technical-material, formal, iconographic and iconological components through the specific language of the subject. The relationships between artists, patrons and production centers will be traced, whenever possible.
Particular insights will be reserved for the monuments of medieval Viterbo, the illuminated manuscripts and the perspectives connected to their digitization and their presence on the web.

1. Knowledge and understanding: students will have to master the subject and recognize both the artworks commented during the lessons and those studied in the reference texts.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: classroom discussion, observation exercises guided by the teacher, research activities carried out in possible study groups, educational visits and seminars will contribute to the development of an active and personal understand of the subject.
3. Making judgments: students will have to acquire a certain capacity for critical judgment with respect to the reference texts, but also with respect to what the teacher proposes during her lessons, in relation to the debate on the studies.
4. Communication skills: students will have to acquire the specific language of the material and they will have to know how to use it in the best possible way to describe and contextualize both a medieval artwork in particular and an artistic phenomenon in general.
5. Learning skills: students will have to contextualize a medieval artwork in time and space, in relation to the cultural, social, political, ideological and material transformations that have determined/influenced a certain artistic phenomenon.