Websites
to consult every day:
ARCA
website, at: http://www.artcrimeresearch.org/
ARCA
blog, at: http://art-crime.blogspot.it/
Trafficking
Culture website, at: http://traffickingculture.org/
Trafficking
Culture projects, at: http://traffickingculture.org/projects/
The
Art Newspaper, at www.theartnewspaper.com
Week 1, Jan. 20
Lecture:
Course Introduction
Meeting Place: JCU, Classroom
Reading: M. M. Miles Article, "Greek
and Roman Art and the Debate About Cultural Property" (Moodle)
Week 2, Jan. 27
Lecture:
Antiquities: The Love Affair
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Prologue and Chapters 1 - 4
New York Times Article (Moodle)
M. E. Mayo, "Collecting Ancient
Art: An Historical Perspective" Article (Moodle)
Week 3, Feb. 3
Lecture:
The History of Collecting: Forgers, Looters and the Black Market
FILM:
“Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery”
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 5, 6 and 7
C. C. Coggins, "Archaeology and the Art Market" Article (Moodle)
N. Charney's Articles on Fakes and
Forgeries (Moodle)
Week 4, Feb. 10
Collecting
Antiquities: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and Private Collectors
GROUP U.S. MUSEUM PRESENTATIONS
today
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 8 - 13
A. Kozloff, "The Antiquities
Market" Article (Moodle)
S. White, "Building American
Museums" Article (Moodle)
P. Marks, "Dealers Speak"
Article (Moodle)
Week 4, Friday, Feb. 14 (Make-up Day for Monday, April 13)
Lecture:
John Beazley and Attribution Studies/Connoisseurship; Early Collections and
Repatriation Issues: The Oriental Institute's Persian Collection and the
Elgin Marbles
Reading: T. Flynn's Geneva Talk on the Parthenon Marbles
British Committee for the
Reunification of Parthenon Marbles' Refutation of the BM’s Statements
(Moodle)
Text of the 1963 British Museum Act
(Moodle Link)
K. F. Gibbon, "The Elgin
Marbles: A Summary" Article (Moodle)
A. Solomon, "Art in
Jeopardy" Article (Moodle)
Week 5, Feb. 17
Lecture:
What's to Love?: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and Sculpture I
Case
Study: The Getty Bronze
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 14 – 19
ARCA Blog Post on Getty Bronze
(Moodle)
Week 6, Feb. 24
Lecture:
Provenance: What is it, and is it important?; Tombaroli & Giacomo Medici, Robin Symes, and Robert Hecht:
The "Organigram"
Review
for Final Exam
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 20 - 22 and Epilogue
Article on the Trial of Marion True (Moodle)
D. Chappell, "Unraveling the
'Cordata'" Article (Moodle)
ARCA Blog Entry on Robin Symes
(Moodle)
RAND Article, Medici Case (Moodle)
SPECIAL Weekend Visits
Friday, Feb. 28: The Banditaccia Necropolis and Museum at Cerveteri (Bus Leaves from P. Trilussa at
8:30 AM; Return to Rome by 2:00 PM)
Reading:
"My Life as a Tombarolo"
Article (Moodle)
Case Note: Euphronios Krater (Moodle)
Optional
Reading:
D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, Chapter 1 (Moodle)
Saturday, Feb. 29: Villa Giulia
Museum (Meet in front of the Museum at 9:00
AM)
**Choose object for Object
Description Project
Week 7, March 2
MIDTERM EXAM
****SPRING
BREAK****
Readings to Look Over and Become Familiar
With For Second Half of Course (All Moodle and Moodle Links):
Text
of the 1970 UNESCO Convention: UNESCO website
Text
of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention: UNIDROIT website
Text
of the US-Italy Bilateral Agreement
UNESCO's
World Heritage List
Risk
Map of Italian Cultural Heritage
K.
E. Meyer, The Plundered Past,
Appendix B
C. Renfrew, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership, Appendices 1 and 2
Link to List of Italian Cultural Heritage Legislation
Object Loan Guidelines Italy-US
Week 8, March 16
GROUP PROVENANCE REPORTS
presented in class today
Lecture:
Looting and the Black Market
Guest Lecturer: CEO of the
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
Week 9, March 23
Lecture:
International Conventions and Treaties: The Hague, UNESCO, and UNIDROIT
Reading: Shaky Ground, Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2
K. F. Gibbon, "Chronology of
Cultural Property Legislation" Article (Moodle)
Texts of All Conventions and
Treaties:
http://www.eui.eu/projects/internationalArtHeritageLaw/internationallegislation.aspx
UNESCO Handbook of Legal and
Practical Measures Against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001461/146118e.pdf
Week 10, March 30
GROUP CONVENTION REPORTS
presented in class today
Guest
Lecture: Italian Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Culture
Week 11, April 6
Lecture:
Internal National Laws and Bilateral Agreements: Italy and the U.S.; Italian
Property Laws
FILM:
“The Rape of Europa”
Reading: Shaky Ground, Chapters 3, 4, 5 and Conclusion
Text of Metropolitan Museum/Italy
Repatriation Agreement (Moodle)
M. Papa Sokal, "The U.S. Legal
Response to the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage" Article
(Moodle)
W. G. Pearlstein, "Cultural
Property, Congress, the Courts, and Customs" Article (Moodle)
Week 12, April 13
NO CLASS
Week 13, April 20
Lecture:
Italy's Cultural Entities and Art and Antiquities Squads, and the
Repatriation of Objects
Guest
Lecture: Carabinieri's TPC Squad
Reading: F. Isman, "Artworks in Exile" Article (Moodle)
To Look Over (Moodle Links):
MiBACT, Roma Capitale, and Carabinieri TPC websites
Week 14, April 27
OBJECT DESCRIPTION PROJECT DUE
TODAY
Lecture:
The American Response: AAM and the Reaction of Museums, Museum Personnel and
Archaeologists; The Universal/Encyclopedic Museum: Does it Truly Exist?
Should It?; James Cuno and the Getty: A Last Look; State of Affairs:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Read ARCA Blog article together on Moodle)
Review
for Final Exam
Reading: "The Rise of the University Museum" Boston
Review Article (Moodle)
"Finders, Keepers" Museums
Speak Out About Repatriation Article (Moodle)
K. Singh, "The Universal
Museums: The View From Below" Article (Moodle)
T. Flynn's Universal Museum Article
(Moodle)
J. Boardman, "'National'
Heritage and Scholarship" Article (Moodle)
T. Flynn, "Fear of Cultural
Objects" Article (Moodle)
AAM Article 2016 (Moodle)
How are we doing? 2005 UNIDROIT ARTICLE
In Review for Final Exam: G. Lobay, "Looting and the Antiquities Trade"
(Moodle)
FINAL EXAM: T.B.A.
Selected
Further Reading (In addition to a variety of articles on the Moodle):
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
K. Fitz Gibbon (ed.), Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law (New Brunswick: 2005)
T.
Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance
(New York: 1993)
B.
McNall, Fun While It Lasted: My Rise
and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune (New York: 2003)
K.
E. Meyer, The Plundered Past (New
York: 1977)
K.
D. Vitelli and C. Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Archaeological
Ethics (Oxford: 2006)
P.
Watson, Sotheby's: Inside Story (London:
1998)
P.
Watson & C. Todeschini, The Medici
Conspiracy (New York: 2007)
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