Giulia
Cosmo
Giulia Cosmo has lectured in Art History at the Academies of Fine Arts in Sassari, Palermo, Naples and Reggio Calabria. In 1999, she became a tenured lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, and in 2006, she successfully transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. She is fluent in English, French and German, and understands Spanish. She graduated in Arts with a specialisation in Art History from the Sapienza University of Rome on 22 June 1982, achieving the highest possible grade and honours, with a thesis on Amico Aspertini’s drawings after antiquity contained in the Wolfegg Codex.
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The course involves studying Prehistory and all ancient civilisations.
Exam texts:
Textbook:
S. Settis, T. Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, Volume 1.
One of the following two texts, chosen by the student:
S. Husain, La dea, EDT, on the great female divinities that characterised ancient civilisations.
A. Siliotti, Tutankhamun, his tomb and its treasures, Nuinui.
Optional reading:
S. Rinaldi Tufi, Creta e Micene, I re e gli eroi.
The programme covers the study of the entire history of art from International Gothic up to and excluding Neoclassicism.
Texts for the exam:
Settis, T. Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, Volumes 3 and 4 (Volume 4 is to be studied only up to page 242).