Scheda programma d'esame
CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
CHIARA TARANTINO
Anno accademico2017/18
CdSINTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME IN HUMANITIES
CodiceL1471
CFU6
PeriodoPrimo semestre
LinguaItaliano

ModuliSettore/iTipoOreDocente/i
CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGYL-ANT/07LEZIONI36
CHIARA TARANTINO unimap
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge

The course aims to:

  • Outline a synthetic introduction of Greek, Etruscan and Roman archaeology
Skills

The course aims to:

  • Present archaeology as a tool to understand the ancient cultures, approaching art, architecture and craftsmanship as means of expression of human being and society
Behaviors

The course aims to:

  • Offer methods and perspectives for approaching and interpreting classical art
Teaching methods

Observation and discussion of ancient artifacts, archaeological contexts and works of art; reading and discussion of ancient literary sources.

Syllabus

Introduction to classical archaeology: time and space

 

Approaching classical art and archaeology

  • What does it mean “Gipsoteca”? Diffusion and value of plaster casts collections. The Plaster Casts Collection of the University of Pisa
  • Relationship between Greek bronze statues and Roman marble copies.
  • The technique of casting bronze and plaster copies.

FOCUS on: Discobolous, Athena and Marsyas by Myron, Hanging Marsyas, Arrotino, Apollonian Triad from Deros.

 

Ancient art, contemporary emotions

  • Do ancient artworks express emotions we recognize? Do they raise emotions in us? Why? We will look at the answers to these questions together.

FOCUS on: Kuroi and korai, Tyrannicides group, Laocoon, statues selected during the lesson.

 

Greek Archaeology

  • Framework. Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic artistic productions.
    FOCUS on: Geometric style pottery, Proto-Corinthian pottery, Attic black-figure pottery, Attic red-figure pottery, Doryphoros and Diadoumenos by Polykleitos, Hermes from Olympia by Praxiteles, Drunk Old Woman.
  • Greek Athletics and the Great Festivals - Terminology and athletic practices. Origins of Greek athletics and the great festivals - The crown competitions. Athletes and fame.
    FOCUS on: panathenaic amphoras, Terme Boxer, Apoxyomenos by Lysippos
  • Athens and the Panathenaia - The festival. The goddess Athena. The Parthenon. The Erechtheion.
    FOCUS on: Velletri Athena

 

The Etruscan World

  • Discovering the Etruscans - Who are the Etruscans? What do we know about the Etruscans? Etruscan customs and traditions: banquet, religion and haruspicy. Birth of the Etruscan culture: the Villanovian Period. The Etruscans and the Greek culture. Periodization.
  • Characterizing productions: pottery, bronze, jewelry, sculptures and reliefs. Language and inscriptions. Sanctuaries and temples. Burials and necropolis: Etruscan tombs: tumuli, carved tombs, urns and sarcophagi. Palaces.

FOCUS on: Villanovan cinerary urns, urns from Volterra, sarcophagi, bucchero pottery, Orientalizing tombs and tumuli, palaces in Murlo and Acquarossa.

 

Roman Archaeology

  • Approaching Roman art and architecture – Roman Historical relief. Roman portrait sculpture.
    FOCUS on: portraits of Caesar and Augustus, Augustus from Pima Porta, Augustus Pontifex Maximus, Arch of Augustus in Susa, Column of Trajan in Rome, Sarcophagus of Portonaccio
  • The Roman fora – The Roman fourum. The imperial fora.

 

Tours

Cerveteri, Rome

Bibliography

GREEKS

 

Colette Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grbr/hd_grbr.htm

 

Marden Nichols, Contexts for the Display of Statues in Classical Antiquity

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/disp/hd_disp.htm

 

Geometric Art in Ancient Greece

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grge/hd_grge.htm

 

Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm

 

Greek Art in the Archaic Period

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/argk/hd_argk.htm

 

Colette Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tacg/hd_tacg.htm

 

Colette Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haht/hd_haht.htm

 

Colette Hemingway, Architecture in Ancient Greece

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grarc/hd_grarc.htm  

 

Stephen G. Miller, Ancient Greek athletics, London 2004, pp 11-19, 31-86

 

Panos Valavanis, Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens, Athens 2004, section of Athens + pp 124-125 Hermes and Dionysus

 

Statuettes of the Apollonian triad from Deros

http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/4/eh430.jsp?obj_id=7929

 

Acropolis Museum, The Sculptor Antenor

http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/sites/default/files/antinor_en.pdf

 

Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell, Looking at Greek Art, Cambridge University Press 2011, pp 51-54 Doryphoros, pp 93-94 Drunken Old Woman

 

R.R.R. Smith, Hellenistic Sculpture, London 1991, pp 51-52 Apoxyomenos, p 54 Terme Boxer, p 106 Hanging Marsyas

 

John Boardman, Greek Sculptures. The Classical Period, London 1991, p 80 Myron, pp 203-204 Phidias, pp 205-206 Polykleitos

 

John Boardman, Greek Sculptures. The Late Classical Period, London 1995, pp 53-55 Praxiteles, pp 57-58 Lysippus

 

The Arrotino, Galleria degli Uffizi

https://www.virtualuffizi.com/the-arrotino%2C-ancient-sculpture-at-the-uffizi.html

 

New York MET Kuros

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.11.1

 

Kroisos Kuros

http://www.namuseum.gr/collections/sculpture/archaic/archaic16-en.html

 

Phrasikleia Kore

http://www.namuseum.gr/collections/sculpture/archaic/archaic13-en.html

 

ETRUSCANS

 

Colette Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, Etruscan Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/etru/hd_etru.htm

 

Theresa Huntsman, Etruscan Language and Inscriptions

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/etla/hd_etla.htm  

 

Beth Cohen, New Light on a Master Bronze from Etruria

http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-museum/365

 

Gretchen E. Meyers, Approaching monumental architecture: mechanics and movement in Archaic Etruscan palaces

http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0068246213000044

 

Cerveteri

http://www.cerveteri-tarquinia-sitiunesco.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/163/cerveteri

 

ROMANS

 

Imperial Fora, official web site of the Sovrintendenza Capitolina

http://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/i_luoghi/roma_antica/aree_archeologiche/fori_imperiali

 

Digital Roman Forum, project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory

http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum

 

Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project

http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/index.html

 

Rosemarie Trentinella, Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropo2/hd_ropo2.htm

Assessment methods

Written exam: 14 questions, 2 short essays

Notes

See Moodle for didactic materials

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