AH5085
Art and Politics in the Trecento
2016-2017
30
15
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2016-2017
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
Art in Italy in the period ca. 1230-1400 was sometimes employed to promote the political agendas of the city states. The kings of Naples, oligarchies such as Florence and Siena, and despotic regimes such as those of Milan and Verona employed imagery to express their ideals and achievements and to manipulate public opinion in their favour. This module will investigate the relationship between late medieval Italian art (but mainly sculpture) and competing political ideologies. It will also explore how regimes sympathetic to the Pope or to the German emperor employed art to declare allegiance to one or other of these two 'universal' powers.