CdSINTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME IN HUMANITIES
CodiceL1471
CFU6
PeriodoPrimo semestre
LinguaItaliano
Moduli | Settore/i | Tipo | Ore | Docente/i | |
CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY | L-ANT/07 | LEZIONI | 36 |
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The course aims to:
- Outline a synthetic introduction of Greek, Etruscan and Roman archaeology
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
The course aims to:
- Offer methods and perspectives for approaching and interpreting classical art
Observation and discussion of ancient artifacts, archaeological contexts and works of art; reading and discussion of ancient literary sources.
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
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
Written exam: 14 questions, 2 short essays
See Moodle for didactic materials