It is recommended (but not compulsory) to have at least a general knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman history.

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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. Pheidias.
  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 Villanovan 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 portrait sculpture. Roman historical relief. Funeral relief.
  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 city – The Roman fourum. The imperial fora. Ancient Pisa.

Tours

1. Pisa 2. Etrsucan site to be defined 3. Rome

You will find the articles and books in the library of Antichistica (via S. Maria 44) or on the internet.

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

Marsyas

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Marsyas I, Verlag, Zurigo-Monaco, 1992, vol. VI

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

ROMANS

Rosemarie Trentinella, Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle

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

Rosemarie Trentinella, Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropo/hd_ropo.htm

The Meroë Head of Augustus

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/the_mero%C3%AB_head_of_augustus.aspx

Augustus Pontifex Maximus

http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/en/national-roman-museum-palazzo-massimo-alle-terme/sculptures/augustus-pontifex-maximus-high-priest

Augustus from Prima Porta

http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/braccio-nuovo/Augusto-di-Prima-Porta.html

Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla, MET

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253592

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

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Written exam: 14 questions, 2 short essays

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https://elearning.humnet.unipi.it

Exam commission: Chiara Tarantino (Anna Anguissola), Emanuele Taccola (Lisa Rosselli), Letizia Gualandi (Fabio Fabiani)

Start of classes: October 15, 2019