Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
week 1) Sep 3 | Course Syllabus and Procedures. Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture. On-site: Tiber and Tiber Island.
| Coarelli 1-11(Introduction) | Claridge 1-11, 31-59,226-28(Tiber Island),394-397; Ramage introd.; | MP: JCU, Guarini campus, GKG1 at 9:15 (check info board, though!!) for introd.; then we go on-site!! |
week 2) Sep 10 | From Romulus to Caesar: Early and Republican Rome, Capitoline Hill and Museums. | Coarelli 29-43 (Capitoline), 43-47 (Roman Forum: Historical notes) | Ramage ch.2; Claridge 6-11, 60-74 (Roman Forum), Capitoline: 229-231, 231-240 | MP: Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline), in front of ticket office to Museum |
week 3) Sep 17 | Etruscan Art and Culture | Ramage ch.1; Rasmussen 13-25 in: Henig, ch.1 (Early Roman Art) | Claridge 394-397; Spivey, Etruscan Art | MP: Obelisk in Piazza del Popolo (class moves together to the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia) |
week 4) Sep 24 !! longer class !! | From Roman Republic to Empire | Coarelli 261-285 (Campus Martius I), 307-321 (Forum Holitorium and Forum Boarium), Tiber Island,394-397 | Claridge 177-180 (introd. Field of Mars), 214-228, 243-247; Strong ch.2 & 3 | MP: Largo Argentina, in front of Feltrinelli bookstore |
week 5) Oct 1 | Augustus and the Imperial Idea: Political Propaganda in the Field of Mars | Coarelli 285-291, 299-304 (Augustan Campus Martius); Zanker, P., Power of Images, 33-43. 118-125, 143-162, 172-183, 335-339; | Ramage ch.3 & 4; Galinsky ch.4; Strong ch.4 & 5; Claridge 11-18, Field of Mars: introd. and Augustan monuments (Mausoleum, Altar of Peace, Sundial, early Pantheon). | MP: Museum of Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta (corner Via Tomacelli); near Ponte Cavour |
week 6) Oct 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: JCU G.K.1.1. at 9:15 (check info board, though!) |
week 7) Oct 15 !! longer class !! | The Roman Forum from the Republican to early Imperial Period. Imperial Residences on the Palatine and the Development of the Colosseum Valley. | Coarelli 131-157 (Palatine), 159-172 (Colosseum etc.), 177-190 (Oppian Hill), 47-57, 60-81, 97-98 (Roman Forum). | Ramage ch.5 Claridge 16-17, 116-145, 267-284, 290-93 (Nero's Golden House); Strong ch.6 | MP: entrance to Forum Romanum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 8) Oct 22 !! longer class !! | Ostia Antica, the Port or Rome. Fieldtrip. | Coarelli 451-476; Stambaugh ch.18 | www.ostia-org; Hermansen; Meiggs | MP: 9:15 outside train station of Ostia Antica !! Take Lido train from Piazzale Ostiense at 8:40!! (bring snacks) |
week 9) Oct 29 | Trajan and the Imperial Fora, Column and Markets. | Coarelli 102-128 (Imperial Fora) | Ramage ch.6 (Trajan); Claridge 11-18, 146-173; Strong ch.7 | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 10) Nov 5 !! longer class !! | The Field of Mars and the High Empire.
!! VISUAL ANALYSIS done during class !! | Coarelli 261-266, 286-298 (central Campus Martius) | Ramage ch.7 & 8; Claridge 17-20, 177-228(Field of Mars), 369-373 (Mausoleum of Hadrian); MacDonald, Pantheon; Strong ch. 8 & 9
| MP: in front of Pantheon |
week 11) Nov 12 | The Centre in the Later Empire and the Colosseum | Coarelli 43-47, 57-63, 81-97, 98-101 (Roman Forum high and late imperial), 11-27 (City Walls),159-172 (Colosseum etc.) | Ramage ch. 9 -12; Claridge 20-27, 70, 75-76, 83, 109-111, 115, 272-276, 284-288, 332-335 (Aurelianic Walls), 346-350; Strong ch. 10-14; | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 12) Nov 19 | Embellishing the City: Roman Painting and Sculpture in the Palazzo Massimo; and Baths of Diocletian.
!! DUE: PAPER !! | Coarelli 247-252 (Castra Praetoria nad Baths of Diocletian); La Regina, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, 9-13, 23-34, 40-42, 47-48, 87-92, 94-101, 166-7 (portraiture), 51-57 (painted frieze), 59-62 (Altar and Augustus), 121 124, 129, 130, 132, 136, 144 (sculpture), 180-206 (mosaics), 208-335 (wall paintings), 254-258 (marble intarsio). | Claridge 352-354 (Baths of Diocletian); Portraiture: review Ramage 42-45, 77-81, 107-112, 138-141 and Strong 38, 44-47, 84-88; Wall paintings and Mosaics: review Ramage 82-95, 123-131, 152 and Strong 63-74, 94-104. | MP: Piazza Repubblica, in front of Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli |
week 13) Nov 26 | HOLIDAY - | Make-up through longer class sections ... | ... over the semester (see schedule!) | |
week 14) Dec 3 !! longer class !! | The Baths of Caracalla. Constantine the Great: from Pagan to Christian ... and
... Review of our semester! | Coarelli 326-331 (Baths of Caracalla), 365-367 (Via Appia) 159-163 (Arch of Constantine), 172-175 (San Clemente), 213-223 (Caelian Hill), 224-227 (Lateran), | Prepare course material following the study guide! | MP: Baths of Caracalla, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla |
week 15) | FINAL EXAM | | | MP: JCU day, time and class TBA |
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