Topics
1. Introduction: What is “Roman”? For a definition of “Roman” art
2. Before Rome: The Etruscans. A Brief Overview
3. Magna Graecia and the Romans
4. Republican art: The beginnings
- FIRST ASSIGNMENT:
C. C. Vermeule, “Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste”, Boston Museum Bulletin 65, no. 362 (1967) 175-192
A. Stähli, “Roman Bronze Statuettes: Copies of Greek Sculpture?”, in S. Ebbinghaus (ed.), Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens. Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes (Cambridge, MA, 2014) 133-145.
M. Squire, “Greek Art through Roman eyes, in T. J. Smith, D. Plantzos (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Oxford 2012 or other editions) 599-620.
D. Briquel, “Etruscan Origins and the Ancient Authors”, in J. Macintosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World (London 2013 or other editions) 36-55.
G. Bagnasco Gianni, “Massimo Pallottino’s “Origins” in Perspective”, in J. Macintosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World (London 2013 or other editions) 29-35.
5. A social history of Roman expansion: The Pre-Roman peoples of ancient Italy
6. Hellenization/The Late Republican period
7. The Principate (art and power; the establishment of ‘imperial portraits’ and ‘imperial propaganda’). Eclecticism of the Augustan Age. Art under the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and the Flavians.
8. Power and the private sphere: Domestic displays of power. Evolution from Etruscan/Italic models, comparisons with Greek contexts. Mosaics/decorations in Roman houses.
- SECOND ASSIGNMENT:
I. Edlund-Berry, “The Architectural Heritage of Etruria”, in J. Macintosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World (London 2013 or other editions) 695-707.
J. R. Clarke, “Augustan Domestic Interiors: Propaganda or Fashion?”, in: K. Galinsky (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge 2005, pp. 264–278.
O. Hekster, J. Rich, “Octavian and the Thunderbolt: The Temple of Apollo Palatinus and Roman Traditions of Temple Building”, in Classical Quarterly 56.1 149–168 (2006)
- CHOICE OF THE TOPIC FOR THE PRESENTATION (from selected topics)
9. Roman painting: Beginnings in Etruscan and Greek Art, cross-cultural comparisons
10. Roman Imperial sculpture: Evolution and meaning in Roman society. Portraiture etc.
11. Rome and the northern provinces: particular emphasis on Raetian art
12. The social impact of the Roman Empire: examples from the provinces (esp. Greece, society in Raetia/Britannia etc.)
- THIRD ASSIGNMENT:
C.-G. Alexandrescu, “Fragments of Large-Scale Bronze Statues in Context of So-Called Scrap Metal Deposits in Dacia and Moesia Inferior”, in P. Baas (ed.), Proceedings of the XXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes. Resource, reconstruction, representation, role (Oxford 2019), 165-175.
T. Nogales Basarrate, J. M. Murciano Calles, “Roman Bronzes of Augusta Emerita (Hispania). Representation: Iconography and Models”, in Baas 2019, 211-221.
- DEADLINE TO HAND IN THE DRAFTS FOR THE PRESENTATIONS
13. The making of a Roman city: examples from Rome, Pompeii, Athens
-STUDENT PRESENTATIONS BEGIN: PRESENTATIONS BY THREE STUDENTS DURING THE LESSON (to calculate 15–20 minutes each; presentations should include Power Points, and the papers be articulated around the main questions of social context and description of the issue; following the structure introduction-discussion-final questions to create discussions)
14. Trajanic and Hadrianic Rome? Art on sarcophagi—PRESENTATIONS
15. Art under Marcus Aurelius: portraits etc.—PRESENTATIONS
16. Rome and the 3rd century AD. The Northern/Danubian provinces. Art under the Severi—PRESENTATIONS
17. Ostia between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD—PRESENTATIONS
18. Rome in the 4th century AD—PRESENTATIONS
19. Review class—PRESENTATIONS
20. Review class—PRESENTATIONS (if not completed)
21. Final exam