ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CLASSICAL ART

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Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ITALIAN LITERATURE, MODERN PHILOLOGY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of Greek and Roman history and Greek and Roman archaeology. It is therefore very useful to have passed the exams of Greek History, Roman History and Greek and Roman Archaeology and Art History.

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CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1

ARCHAEOLOGY

AF code:

A002002

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Knowledge of the archaeological and artistic record of the Roman provincial world, with particular regard to the area of Sardinia, and skill in analysing features and problems.

Contents

The archaeology of the Roman provinces. The making of the Roman empire, its organization and the administration of the provinces; the problem of «provincial art»: definition, history of studies and art-historical framing inside the Roman art.
Turris Libisonis (today’s Porto Torres) in the general frame of Roman Sardinia: the town planning, the architecture and the visual arts of the Roman colony and their relations with the records of Rome and Africa.
The course will consist of lectures and seminars accompanied by extensive illustrative material, which will be object of projections and will be left to students at the end of the course (set of power points on pen drive).

Recommended Bibliography

Attending students: the lecture notes with the illustrative material and the following texts
R. BIANCHI BANDINELLI, Roma. La fine dellarte antica, ed. BUR Arte Rizzoli CdS, Milano, 1988 or later editions, from p. 105 (chapter: "L'arte europea di Roma") to the end;
P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il mondo romano, ed. Laterza, Bari, 1988, pp. 284-299, 331-338;
P. GROS, L'architettura romana. Dagli inizi del III secolo a.C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, ed. Longanesi, Milano, 2001, pp. 457-462;
A. MASTINO, C. VISMARA, Turris Libisonis, ed. Carlo Delfino Editore, Sassari, 1994;
G. AZZENA, Turris Libisonis, la città romana, in AA.VV., Luoghi e tradizioni dItalia. Sardegna, ed. Editalia, Roma, 1999, pp. 368-380;
S. ANGIOLILLO, A. BONINU, A. PANDOLFI, "Nuovi pavimenti a Turris Libisonis: la Domus dei Mosaici", in C. ANGELELLI, D. MASSARA, F. SPOSITO (a cura di), Atti del XXI Colloquio dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Reggio Emilia, 18-21 marzo 2015, Tivoli, ed. Scripta Manent, 2016, pp. 507-516;
S. ANGIOLILLO, A. BONINU, A. PANDOLFI, "Orfeo e le Tre Grazie: nuovi mosaici figurati in Sardegna", in L. NEIRA JIMENEZ (a cura di), Estudios sobre mosaicos antiguos y medievales, Actas del XIII Congreso AIEMA, Madrid, 14-18 settembre 2015, Roma, ed. <> di Bretschneider, 2016, pp. 323-328;
L. PANI ERMINI ET ALII, Indagini archeologiche nel complesso di S. Gavino a Porto Torres. Scavi 1989-2003, Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, Memorie VII, 2006, pp. 25-47, 66-118.
Any olther readings may be suggested during the course.
It is strongly recommended the use of an historical atlas of the ancient world.
Non-attending students are kindly requested to contact the teacher in advance (also using the contact details given afterwords) to agree on an organic study path, which will however include also part of the above mentioned texts.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures and seminars.

Contacts/More Information

Reception hours: at the end of each lesson; the teacher is whatever always ready to receive by appointment established by e-mail (teatini@uniss.it) or telephone (3477583448).
Readiness to offer individual assistance also in English and German to Erasmus incoming students.
Readiness to accept examination also in English and German.
Archaeological excavations. The teacher directs two Italian archaeological mission abroad: one in Romania, for the investigation of the Roman town of Ibida (Tulcea County, in Dobrogea. Website of the excavation http://www.arheologie-ibida.eu/); one in Tunisia, for the investigation of the Roman town of Numluli (Governorate of Béja). Students of Classical Archaeology will be invited to participate on the basis of the available resources.

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