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.