TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
TBA: SPECIAL Friday Visit
The Banditaccia Necropolis and Museum at Cerveteri and Villa Giulia Museum in Rome
Week 1, Day 1
Course Introduction
Week 1, Day 2
Antiquities: The Love Affair I
Week 2, Day 1
Antiquities: The Love Affair II
Week 2, Day 2
The History of Collecting: Forgers, Looters and the Black Market
Week 3, Day 1
Collecting Antiquities I: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and Private Collectors
Week 3, Day 2
Collecting Antiquities II: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and Private Collectors
Week 4, Day 1
What's to Love?: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and Sculpture I
Week 4, Day 2
What's to Love: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and Sculpture II
Case Study: The Getty Bronze
Week 5, Day 1
John Beazley and Attribution Studies/Connoisseurship
Week 5, Day 2
Provenance: What is it, and is it important?
Week 6, Day 1
Tombaroli & Giacomo Medici, Robin Symes, and Robert Hecht: The "Organigram"
Week 6, Day 2
GROUP U.S. MUSEUM PRESENTATIONS today
Week 6, Wednesday Feb. 27
Early Collections and Repatriation Issues: The Oriental Institute's Persian Collection and the Elgin Marbles
Week 7, Monday March 4
Midterm Review
Week 7, Wednesday March 6
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8, Day 1
Looting and the Black Market
Guest Lecturer: CEO of the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
Week 8, Day 2
GROUP PROVENANCE REPORTS presented in class today
Week 9, Day 1
Guest Lecture: Italian Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Culture
Week 9, Day 2
International Conventions and Treaties: The Hague, UNESCO, and UNIDROIT
Week 10, Day 1
GROUP CONVENTION REPORTS presented in class today
Week 10, Day 2
Internal National Laws and Bilateral Agreements: Italy and the U.S.
Week 11, Day 1
Italian Property Laws
Week 11, Day 2
Italy's Cultural Entities and Art and Antiquities Squads, and the Repatriation of Objects
Week 12, Day 1
OBJECT DESCRIPTION PROJECT DUE TODAY
Guest Lecture: Carabinieri's TPC Squad
Week 12, Day 2
The American Response: AAM and the Reaction of Museums, Museum Personnel and Archaeologists
Week 13, Day 1
NO CLASS
Week 13, Day 2
The Universal/Encyclopedic Museum: Does it Truly Exist? Should It?
Week 14, Day 1
James Cuno and the Getty: A Last Look
State of Affairs: Cleveland Museum of Art (Read ARCA Blog article together on Moodle)
Week 14, Day 2
NO CLASS
FINAL EXAM: T.B.A.