Enrollment year
2014/2015
Academic discipline
L-ANT/06 (ETRUSCAN AND ITALIC CIVILISATIONS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
ART HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO CONTEMPORARY ART
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
The advanced classes of Etruscan and Italian archaeology presuppose a basic knowledge of Etruscan civilization and history, which should have been already acquired through a preliminary course for beginners.
You need, moreover, a fairly good general knowledge of Greek art.
Learning outcomes
These classes aim at historically focusing Etruscan art and handicraft, by a choice of crucial times and problems.
They aim, moreover, at dealing with some special subjects on peoples and cultures of Italy before the Romans, in order to give methodological rules and stimulate free searching and studies.
Course contents
A) Etruscan art and handicraft: history of reception; a brief account from the Geometric to the Hellenistic age.
B) Terracotta sculpture at the Portonaccio sanctuary, Veii: the so-called Vulca's school.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
This series of lectures may be complemented (possibly preceded: date to be announced) by one or two guided tours to archaeological museums or a small trip to some Etruscan places.
Reccomended or required readings
A handbook to be chosen among the followings:
R. Bianchi Bandinelli e M. Torelli, L'arte dell'antichità classica, II (Etruria-Roma), Torino, UTET, repr. 2008 (only the chapters and files concerning Etruscan art)
O.J. Brendel, Etruscan Art, ed. F.R. Serra Ridgway, New Haven, Yale University Press, rev. 1995
J. MacIntosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World, London-New York, Routledge, 2013 ( only parts VI-VIII)
F.-H. Pairault Massa, Iconologia e politica nell'Italia antica. Roma, Lazio, Etruria dal VII al I secolo a.C., Milano, Longanesi, 1992
M. Torelli, L'arte degli Etruschi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, repr. 2008.
Assessment methods
An oral examination.
Students coming from other European countries are allowed to answer in French, English or German language.
Further information
The students, who can not regularly attend the classes, must read two handbooks (instead of only one).
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