ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ART

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: ELVIA MARIA LETIZIA GIUDICE

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge of the main manifestations of material and artistic culture from greek geometric style to late roman antiquity, through written texts, visual art and material remains.

Ability to describe and date major Greek and Roman monuments of the classical period and recognize their iconographic patterns.

Knowledge of Greek and Roman figurative language.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Course Structure

The course will be structured in three parts, a first in which problems of periodization will be discussed; a second one, in which the main monuments of Greek and Roman art will be illustrated, and, finally, a third during which we will deal with main themes of iconography.

Required Prerequisites

None

Attendance of Lessons

Optional attendance

Detailed Course Content

Study of the main documents of Greek and Roman art with particular attention to the iconographic content, analyzed in relation to the historical and social context of each era

Textbook Information

Text Books:

For Greek Archaeology :

T. Hölscher, Il mondo dell’arte greca, Torino 2008, pp. 3-161.

For Roman Archaeology:

- Massimiliano Papini, Arte romana, Mondadori, Milano 2016:

Chapter 2: Il sistema delle immagini nell’arte di età romana (E. La Rocca), pp. 40-62.

Chapter 5: L’Italia e Roma dal secolo X al I a.C. (M. Papini), pp. 131-162

Chapter 6: Secolo I a.C. -secolo I d.C.: dagli imperatori giulio-claudi alla dinastia flavia (E. La Rocca), pp. 163-202.

Chapter. 7: Il secolo II d.C. e i “buoni imperatori” (M. Papini), pp. 203-231.

Chapter 8: Il secolo III d.C. e la “crisi” dell’Impero (A. Lo Monaco), pp. 232-258.

Chapter 9: Secoli IV-VI d.C. : Il Tardo antico (S. Tortorella), pp. 259-288.

Chapter 10: Rappresentazioni storiche (Matteo Cadario), pp. 291-319.

Chapter 11: I ritratti ( M. Papini), pp. 320-344.

Chapter 18: La Pittura ( S. Fortunati, S. Tortorella) pp. 467-490.

B. Seminars on topics chosen by the teacher (1 cfu)
-Materials placed in the course platform

Or the articles:

Gottfried Gruben

Il tempio: tipi, funzioni, età protogeometrica e geometrica, età protoarcaica, da: I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, VOL. II.1, pp. 381-434, Torino 1997

Heinrich Borbein

La nascita di un’arte classica, da: I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, VOL. II.2, pp. 1275-1303, Torino 1997

H. von Hesberg

Riti e produzione artistica delle corti ellenistiche, da: I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, VOL. II.3, pp. 178-214 , Torino 1997

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral Exam

The examination evaluation will take into account the candidate's mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical property, and argumentative ability demonstrated.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Origin of Greek Portrait

Panellenic Sanctuary

Kouroi e Korai

Phidias

Acropolis of Athens in the Arcaic Period

Agorà of Athens

Hephaisteion

Greek Painting

Origin of the Roman Portrait

Roman historical reliefs

Triumphal Arches

Roman Painting

Roman Art and the school of Vienna

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

Corso di laurea magistrale in

Filologia classica