Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
January 19 | Introduction & Analysis of Art. Republican Rome. | Hibbert, 3-23 Excerpt: Plutarch, Life of Marcellus (21): Triumph of Marcellus following capture of Syracuse | MONUMENTS: The Servian Wall, Temple of Vesta or Hercules Victor?, Temple of Portunus, Tabularium, Pons Fabricius, Theater of Pompey | |
January 21 | Brick into Marble: The Rome of Augustus | Required: Hibbert, pp.24-38; Vergil, The Shield of Achilles. SUGGESTED: Rehak, P. “Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the Meaning of the Ara Pacis Augustae,” Art Bulletin 83 (2001), 190-208 | MONUMENTS: Julius Caesar, Forum of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus of Prima Porta, Forum of Augustus, Mausoleum of Augustus, Ara Pacis, Theater of Marcellus | |
January 26 | Nero's Rome / Peter and Paul / Flavian Rome | Hibbert, 38-52; Tacitus on the Great Fire (in-class) | MONUMENTS: Claudius, Porta Maggiore, Nero, Domus Aurea, Vespasian, Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum), Arch of Titus | |
January 28 | High Imperial Rome: Trajan, Optimus Princeps | Hibbert, 44-63.
SUGGESTED: Boatwright, Gargola, & Talbot, 367-373. | MONUMENTS: Baths of Trajan, Forum of Trajan, Column of Trajan, Markets of Trajan | |
February 2 | High Imperial Rome | Excerpt from Cassius Dio, Roman History 69.4 (Death of Apollodorus of Damascus)
SUGGESTED: Boatwright, Gargola, & Talbot, 373-379.
| MONUMENTS: Temple of Rome and Venus, Pantheon, Mausoleum of Hadrian, Base of Column of Antoninus Pius, Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus as Hercules, Arch of Septimius Severus | |
February 4 | 3rd Century Rome: Soldier Emperors and Persecutions | SUGGESTED: Christopher J. Haas, “Imperial Religious Policy and Valerian’s Persecution of the Church, A.D. 257-260,” Church History 52/2 (1983), 133-144. | MONUMENTS: Caracalla, Baths of Caracalla, Philip the Arab, Trajan Decius, Christ / Sol Invictus mosaic, Aurelian Wall, | |
February 9 | Christian Art before Constantine | Excerpts from Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (martyrs)
Excerpt of sermon of Leo I (Sermon 85 on Saint Lawrence) | MONUMENTS: The Good Shepherd fresco Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus, Sarcophagus with philosopher, Baths of Diocletian | |
February 11 | Constantine and Rome | Hibbert, 64-71. SUGGESTED: P. Peirce, 'The Arch of Constantine: Propaganda and Ideology in Late Roman Art', Art History 12 (1989), 387–418. | MONUMENTS: Roman Senate House, Basilica of Maxentius, Arch of Constantine, Old Saint Peter's, Saint John Lateran, Santa Costanza, Sarcophagus of Costanza | |
February 16 | A Pagan or a Christian Rome? | Excerpt: The plea by Symmachus for the Altar of Victory (382 CE)
REQUIRED: Margaret R. Miles, "Santa Maria Maggiore's Fifth-Century Mosaics: Triumphal Christianity and the Jews," The Harvard Theological Review 86/2 (April 1993), 155-175. | MONUMENTS: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Christ enthroned, Abraham and Melchisedek Mosaic (S. Maria Maggiore), Saint Paul outside the Walls, Lateran Baptistery | |
February 18 | Rome in the Early Middle Ages | Hibbert, 72-96
Excerpts from Pope Leo I (r. 440-461) and Pope Gregory the Great (r. 590-604) | MONUMENTS: Santa Sabina, Apse Mosaic Saints Cosmas and Damian, Maria Regina, Virgin of Clemency (Rome. Sta. Maria in Trastevere), San Stefano Rotondo, Ponte Nomentano | |
February 23 | Carolingian Rome | Excerpts from Einhard's Life of Charlemagne | MONUMENTS: Triclinium Mosaic of Leo III, Mosaics of Santa Prassede, Apse Mosaic of Santa Maria in Domnica, "Chair of Saint Peter," Apse Mosaic of San Marco | |
February 25 | Rome in the Middle Ages | SUGGESTED reading: Hetherington, 1970 on mosaics by Cavallini in Santa Maria in Trastevere | MONUMENTS: Apse Mosaic San Clemente, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Apse Mosaic Santa Maria Maggiore, Giotto, Arnolfo di Cambio, Medieval Houses in Rome | |
March 2 | MIDTERM | MIDTERM | MIDTERM | |
March 4 | Rome in the Early Renaissance | Hibbert, 113-124. SUGGESTED: Gail L. Geiger, "Filippino Lippi's Carafa "Annunciation": Theology, Artistic Conventions, and Patronage," The Art Bulletin 63 (1981), 62-75 | MONUMENTS: Masolino, Chapel of Saint Catherine; Fra Angelico, Chapel of Nicholas V, Filippino Lippi, Carafa Chapel | |
March 9 | Rome of Sixtus IV | Hibbert, 125-138 | MONUMENTS: Sistine Chapel (building and decoration of 1481-1483); Hospital; Ponte Sisto | |
March 11 | Rome in the High Renaissance | Hibbert 139-152
Excerpts from Macchiavelli, The Prince (regarding Cesare Borgia) (handout) | MONUMENTS: Works for Alexander VI Borgia; New St. Peter's Basilica; Raphael Stanze; Leonardo's work in Rome | |
March 16 | Rome in the High Renaissance (continued) | | | |
March 18 | Michelangelo in Rome | Primary sources (translated) on Roman commissions (handout) | MONUMENTS: Pietà; Sistine Ceiling; Monument for Julius II; Resurrected Christ; Last Judgment; Capitoline Palaces; Porta Pia; Dome of St. Peter's | |
March 23 | The Sack of Rome; Rome in the later 16th Century | Hibbert, 153-178
Excerpts from the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | MONUMENTS: Works of Salviati, Cellini, Vasari, late Roman Mannerists, Villa Giulia | |
March 25 | Rome in the Baroque: Caravaggio | Hibbert, 179-199
Selected documents on Caravaggio in Rome (police records, etc) | MONUMENTS: Sick Bacchus; The Cardsharps; Gypsy Fortuneteller; Contarelli Chapel, Cerasi Chapel, Madonna del Loreto, Entombment of Christ | |
March 30 | Rome in the Baroque: Bernini | Excerpt from the Autobiography of Teresa of Avila | MONUMENTS: Apollo & Daphne, Pluto & Persephone, Baldacchino, Triton Fountain, 4 River Fountain, Cornaro Chapel, Chair of St. Peter, Colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica, Blessed Ludovica Albertoni | |
April 1 | Rome in the 18th Century | Hibbert, 200-226. SUGGESTED: Hereward Lester Cooke Jr., "The Documents Relating to the Fountain of Trevi" The Art Bulletin 38 (1956), 149-173. J.J. Winckelmann, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Art in Painting and Sculpture," (photocopy to be distributed). | MONUMENTS: Trevi Fountain, Facade of St. John Lateran, Facade of S. Maria Maggiore, Works of Mengs and Canova | |
April 4 (Friday). Makeup for April 21 | Rome in the 19th Century | Hibbert, 227-285 | MONUMENTS: Works of Valadier, Works for Pius IX | |
WEEK OF APRIL 6 - 10 | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | |
April 13 | Rome in the 19th Century: Capital of a New Kingdom | | Public monuments for patriots (Garibaldi, Cavour, Victor Emanuel), new ministries, streets, squares, churches for non-Catholics. Monuments to Giordano Bruno, Cola di Rienzo. Piazza dei Cinquecento | |
April 15 | Rome in the 20th Century: Fascism 1 | Hibbert, 286-303. SUGGESTED: David Atkinson and Denis Cosgrove, "Urban Rhetoric and Embodied Identities: City, Nation, and Empire at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome, 1870-1945". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88 (1998), 28–49 | MONUMENTS: Altare della Patria, Forum Mussolini, Selected Futurist works, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Sapienza University.
LIBERTY (not Fascist) MONUMENTS: Quartiere Coppedè
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April 20 | Rome in the 20th Century: Fascism 2 | | MONUMENTS: Piazza Augusto Imperatore | |
April 22 | Rome after the War: Expansion | | MONUMENTS: Works for the Summer Olympics of 1960 | |
April 27 | Rome in the later 20th and early 21st Centuries | | MONUMENTS: Works of Renzo Piano, Richard Meier, Massimiliano Fuksas, Zaha Hadib | JOURNAL AND PAPER DUE |
Week of May 2 - 8 | FINAL EXAM DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED | | | |
April 29 | Review for Examination: Renaissance to 2015 | | | |