Course Outline: Specific outline will be distributed in class.
*Please note Spring 2012 holiday make-up class: Friday 9 March, 2012. Attendance is mandatory
Week 1 Introduction: Looking at art and material culture
Meeting location: Garibaldi
Week 2 Thinking historically: Going backwards in time and historiography
Meet: Campidoglio, top of steps right side
Site: Capitoline Museums
Reading: see post-it no. 1 or access following article directly from JSTOR: Hayden White,"Interpretation
in History," New Literary History vol 4 n.2 (winter 1973): pp281to end of 1st paragraph p. 287)
*summary due /discussion
Week 3. Origins: Myth, written history, archeology
Meet: Piazza del Popolo, obelisk.
Site: Villa Giulia
Reading: post-it no. 2, Ramage and Ramage,ch. 1
Week 4 Republican expansion and its monuments
Meet: Tiber Island, in front of church of San Bartolomeo.
Sites: Forum Boarium, Forum Holitorium, Circus Flaminius, Largo ArgentinaReading:
Reading: Stamper, ch.3, and ch. 4 pages on Forums Holitorium and Boarium
*summary/discussion 2
Week 5 City Center and its symbolism: Archaic to early Imperial monuments
Meet: Entrance to Palatine, Via San Gregorio
Sites: Palatine Hill, Roman Forum
Reading: Stamper, ch.6, pp. 90-104, ch 7, pp. 105-118
Ramage & Ramage, pp. 78-83
Week 6 The rhetoric of portraiture: Republican and Augustan sculpture
Meet: base of pyramid of Cestius, Metro B Pyramide stop
Site: Centrale Montemartini
Week 7 Midterm 29 Feb.
Week 8 Image of Empire: Ara Pacis, Mausoleum of Augustus and Fascist scenography
Meet: fountain in front of Museum of Ara Pacis
Sites: Ara Pacis, Mausoleum of Augustus, Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Augustan obelisk and meridian
Reading: Zanker, ch 2, 33-48
* summary/discussion 3
Make-up Class 9 Feb. FRIDAY Daily life at the height of Empire
Meet: Column of Trajan
Sites: Imperial forums, markets of Trajan, Colosseum
Reading: Clarke, "Glory and the Games, pp. 143-159
Ramage & Ramage, ch. 6 pp. 207-220
Week 9 Good Emperors
Meet: Piazza Rontonda by fountain (in front of Pantheon)
Sites: Pantheon, Temple of Hadrian, Column of Marcus Aurelius
Reading: Claridge, 218-232,
*Term paper outlines due
Spring Break
Week 10 Displaying refinement and expressing ideals: Art, decoration, and pictorial and space
Meet: Entrance to Palazzo Massimo (Museo Nazionale Romano), far left corner of Piazza dei Cinquecento,
as you exit Termini station
Site: Palazzo Massimo
Reading: Zanker, ch. 7 pp.265-274, 279-295
Week 11 Term paper due. Decline?: Severans, Constantian, and late Empire
Meet: Campidoglio
Sites: Arches of Septimius Severus, and Constantine, Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine,
Reading: Clarke, "All-seeing Emperor and Ordinary Viewers"
Week 12 Translation of status through space and imagery: Imperial forms for Christianity
Meet: in front of Termini Station, by taxi stand
Sites: Basilica of S. Agnese, Mausoleum of S. Costanza
Week 13 Review, discussion of term papers. Location TBA
Week 14 NO class, Holiday (Make-up class will have been on 9 March)