Additional readings will be assigned, and will include book chapters and articles. These works may include:
Books:
K. Fitz Gibbon (ed.), Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law
N. Charney (ed.), Art Crime
K. E. Meyer, The Plundered Past
P. Watson, Sotheby's: Inside Story
T. Mcshane, Loot, Inside the World of Stolen Art
C. Sandis (ed.), Cultural Heritage Ethics
Scholarly Articles:
J. Beazley, "Citharoedus"
K. Singh, "Universal Museums: The View From Below"
M. Papa Sokal, "The U.S. Legal Response to the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage"
M. Miles, "Greek and Roman Art and the Debate about Cultural Property"
J. Pollini, "The Archaeology of Destruction: Christians, Images of Antiquity, and Some Problems of Interpretation"
Current News Articles:
"My Life as a Tomborolo"
"The Rise of the University Museum"
"The Trial of Marion True"
Articles from the American Alliance of Museums Magazine: Museum
Websites:
Metropolitan Museum/Italy Repatriation Agreement
Text of the 1963 British Museum Act
ARCA and ARCA Blog
D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, Chapter 1: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900381h.html
1970 UNESCO Convention
1995 UNIDROIT Convention
Text of the US-Italy Bilateral Agreement
UNESCO's World Heritage List
Risk Map of Italian Cultural Heritage
List of Italian Cultural Heritage Legislation
Object Loan Guidelines Italy-US
MiBACT, Roma Capitale, and Carabinieri TPC websites
Daily Schedule
Week 1
Tuesday, Jan. 17
Lecture: Course Introduction
Meeting Place: JCU, Classroom TBA
Week 1
Thursday, Jan. 19
NO CLASS
Week 2
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Lecture: Antiquities: The Love Affair I
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Prologue and Chapter 1
Week 2
Thursday, Jan. 26
Lecture: Antiquities: The Love Affair II
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 2, 3 and 4
Week 3
Tuesday, Jan. 31
Lecture: The History of Collecting: Forgers, Looters and the Black Market
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 5, 6 and 7
Week 3
Thursday, Feb. 2
Lecture: Collecting Antiquities I: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and Private Collectors
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 8, 9, and 10
Week 4
Tuesday, Feb. 7
Lecture: Collecting Antiquities II: The Role of Museums, Auction Houses and Private Collectors
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 11, 12 and 13
Week 4
Thursday, Feb. 9
Lecture: What's to Love?: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and Sculpture I
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 14, 15 and 16
Week 5
Tuesday, Feb. 14
Lecture: What's to Love: A Lesson on Greek Pottery and Sculpture II
Sample Case Study: The Getty Bronze
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 17, 18 and 19
Week 5
Thursday, Feb. 16
Lecture: Provenance: What is it, and is it important?
Reading: Chasing Aphrodite, Chapters 20, 21, 22 and Epilogue
Week 6
Tuesday, Feb. 21
Lecture: Giacomo Medici, Robin Symes, and Robert Hecht: The "Organigram"
Reading: TBA
Week 6
Thursday, Feb. 23
Lecture: Tombaroli and Italian Property Laws
Reading: TBA
SPECIAL VISIT:
Friday, February 24: The Banditaccia Necropolis and Museum at Cerveteri
Bus Leaves from Piazza Trilussa at 8:30 AM (Return to Rome expected by 2:00 PM)
**Case Study Presentations
Reading: TBA
SPECIAL VISIT:
Saturday, February 25: Villa Giulia Museum
Meet in front of the Museum at 9:00 AM
**Choose object for Object Description Project
**Case Study Presentations
Week 7
Tuesday, Feb. 28
Lecture: Collecting Antiquities III: The Role of the Church
Reading: TBA
Week 7
Thursday, March 2
Lecture: John Beazley and Attribution Studies/Connoisseurship
Reading: TBA
Week 8
Tuesday, March 7
Lecture: Midterm Review
Week 8
Thursday, March 9
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 9
Tuesday, March 14
Lecture: Looting and the Black Market
Guest Lecturer: CEO of the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
Reading: TBA
Week 9
Thursday, March 16
CASE STUDIES presented in class today
Week 10
Tuesday, March 21
No Class
Week 10
Thursday, March 23
GROUP PROVENANCE REPORTS presented in class today
Week 11
Tuesday, March 28
Lecture: International Conventions and Treaties: The Hague, UNESCO, and UNIDROIT
Reading: Shaky Ground, Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2
Week 11
Thursday, March 30
Lecture: Internal National Laws and Bilateral Agreements: Italy and the U.S.
Reading: Shaky Ground, Chapters 3 and 4
SPRING BREAK WEEK: April 3 - 7
Week 12
Tuesday, April 11
Lecture: Early Collections and Repatriation Issues: The Oriental Institute's Persian Collection and the Elgin Marbles
Reading: Shaky Ground, Chapters 5 and Conclusion
Week 12
Thursday, April 13
Lecture: Italy's Cultural Entities and Art and Antiquities Squads, and the Repatriation of Objects
Reading: TBA
Week 13
Tuesday, April 18
OBJECT DESCRIPTION PROJECT DUE TODAY
Lecture: The American Response: AAM and the Reaction of Museums, Museum Personnel and Archaeologists
Reading: TBA
Week 13
Thursday, April 20
No Class
Week 14
Tuesday, April 25
Lecture: The Universal/Encyclopedic Museum: Does it Truly Exist? Should It?
Reading: TBA
Week 14
Thursday, April 27
Lecture: James Cuno and the Getty: A Last Look
Reading: TBA
FINAL EXAM: T.B.A.