Additional
readings will be assigned, and will include book chapters and articles. These
works may include:
Books:
K. Fitz Gibbon (ed.), Who
Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law
N. Charney (ed.), Art
Crime
K. E. Meyer, The
Plundered Past
P.
Watson, Sotheby's: Inside Story
T.
Mcshane, Loot, Inside the World of Stolen Art
C.
Sandis (ed.), Cultural Heritage Ethics
Watson and Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy
Scholarly
Articles:
J.
Beazley, "Citharoedus"
K. Singh,
"Universal Museums: The View From Below"
M.
Papa Sokal, "The U.S. Legal Response to the Protection of the World
Cultural Heritage"
M.
Miles, "Greek and Roman Art and the Debate about Cultural Property"
J. Pollini, "The
Archaeology of Destruction: Christians, Images of Antiquity, and Some Problems
of Interpretation"
Current
News Articles:
"My
Life as a Tomborolo"
"The
Rise of the University Museum"
"The
Trial of Marion True"
Articles
from the American Alliance of Museums Magazine: Museum
Websites:
Metropolitan
Museum/Italy Repatriation Agreement
Text
of the 1963 British Museum Act
ARCA
and ARCA Blog
D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan
Places, Chapter 1: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900381h.html
1970
UNESCO Convention
1995
UNIDROIT Convention
Text
of the US-Italy Bilateral Agreement
UNESCO's
World Heritage List
Risk
Map of Italian Cultural Heritage
List
of Italian Cultural Heritage Legislation
Object
Loan Guidelines Italy-US
MiBACT,
Roma Capitale, and Carabinieri TPC websites
Daily
Schedule
Dates still to be Determined: SPECIAL Friday/Saturday Visits
Friday: The Banditaccia Necropolis and Museum at Cerveteri (Bus Leaves from P.
Trilussa at 8:30 AM; Return to Rome by 2:00 PM)
Saturday: Villa Giulia Museum (Meet in front of the Museum at 9:00 AM)
Week 1, Monday
Lecture: Course
Introduction
Meeting Place: JCU, Classroom TBA
Week 1, Wednesday
NO CLASS
Week 2, Monday
Lecture: Antiquities: The Love Affair I
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Prologue and Chapter 1
Week 2, Wednesday
Lecture: Antiquities: The Love Affair II
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 2, 3 and 4
Week 3, Monday
Lecture: The History of Collecting: Forgers, Looters and the
Black Market
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 5, 6 and 7
Week 3, Wednesday
Lecture: Collecting Antiquities I: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and
Private Collectors
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 8, 9, and 10
Week 4, Monday
Lecture: Collecting Antiquities II: The Role of Museums,
Auction Houses and Private Collectors
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 11, 12 and 13
Week 4, Wednesday
Lecture: What's to Love?: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and
Sculpture I
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 14, 15 and 16
Week 5, Monday
Lecture: What's to Love: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and
Sculpture II
Sample Case Study: The Getty Bronze
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 17, 18 and 19
Week 5, Wednesday
Lecture: John Beazley and Attribution
Studies/Connoisseurship
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 20, 21, 22 and
Epilogue
Week 6, Monday
Lecture: Provenance: What is it, and is it important?
Reading: TBA
Week 6, Wednesday
Lecture: GROUP U.S. MUSEUM PRESENTATIONS today
Reading: TBA
Week 7, Monday
Lecture: Giacomo Medici, Robin Symes, and Robert Hecht: The
"Organigram"
Reading: TBA
Week 7, Wednesday
Lecture: Tombaroli and Italian Property Laws
Reading: TBA
Week 8, Monday
Lecture: Midterm Review
Week 8, Wednesday
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 9, Monday
Lecture: Looting and the Black Market
Guest Lecturer: CEO of the Association for Research into
Crimes Against Art
Week 9, Wednesday
CASE STUDIES presented in class today
Week 10, Monday
Guest Lecture: Italian Legal Advisor to the Ministry of
Culture
Week 10, Wednesday
GROUP PROVENANCE REPORTS presented in
class today
Week 11, Monday
Lecture: International Conventions and Treaties: The Hague,
UNESCO, and UNIDROIT
Reading: Shaky Ground, Introduction and Chapters 1
and 2
Week 11, Wednesday
Lecture: Internal National Laws and Bilateral Agreements:
Italy and the U.S.
Reading: Shaky Ground, Chapters 3 and 4
Week 12, Monday
Lecture: Early Collections and Repatriation Issues: The
Oriental Institute's Persian Collection and the Elgin Marbles
Reading: Shaky Ground, Chapters 5 and Conclusion
Week 12, Wednesday
Lecture: Italy's Cultural Entities and Art and Antiquities
Squads, and the Repatriation of Objects
Reading: TBA
Week 13, Monday
OBJECT DESCRIPTION PROJECT DUE TODAY
Guest Lecture: Carabinieri's TPC Squad
Week 13, Wednesday
The American
Response: AAM and the Reaction of Museums, Museum Personnel and Archaeologists
Reading: TBA
Week 14, Monday
Lecture: The Universal/Encyclopedic Museum: Does it Truly
Exist? Should It?
Reading: TBA
Week 14, Wednesday
Lecture: James Cuno and the Getty: A Last Look
Reading: TBA
FINAL EXAM: T.B.A.