ROMAN AND GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY
To provide the basic knowledge of the historical developpment on Greek and Roman art and civilisation and to make skills, methodological and conceptual tools related to the discipline
Title of course: The image in the ancient art: beauty, identity, power
Module A ( 6 ects): Subjects, aims and forms of Greek art, from arcaic to hellenistic age
Module B (3 ects): Subjects, aims and forms of Roman Art, from monarchy to the late empire
GREEK PART:
E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia greca. Cultura, società, politica e produzione, 2011, Editore: Mondadori.
ROMAN PART:
choose between
- Grassigli G. L.; Menichetti M.; Torelli M, Arte e archeologia nel mondo romano. Milano 2008
- R Bianchi Bandinelli, Arte Romana nel Centro del potere
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Lectures with extensive use of multimedia, seminars on specific technical aspects and on bibliographi tools, exercises of reading and commenting scientific texts, study tours and guided visits in archaeological sites and museums ( Rome and Others), laboratories concerning archaeological finds.
1.written test on basic skills concerning the history of Greek and Roman art, acquired in the domestic and assisted study of handbook: identification and comment of 5 pictures concerning the Greek art and 5 concerning the Roman art, from the handbook;
2. written exercises in critical reading scientific texts and bibliographical researches;
3. oral examen on the contents of lectures.
The final mark carried out by the sum of the three parts marks (test, exercises, oral exam)
some lectures in connection with Other matters in the curriculum ( Greek and Roman litterature, ancient history, anthropology, museology and restoration