ARCHAEOLOGY AND GREEK AND ROMANY HISTORY OF ART

The first part of the course (3 credits) will cover the main moments of Greek and Roman art, linking them to the development of studies on the subject. The second part of the course will be dedicated to the study of the art of the Western Greeks.

1. Archeological methods, literary sources, history of the discipline, historiography of greek and roman art.
2. Typologies and chronology of the greek and roman sculpture, relief and painting, with particular attention to the iconographic and stylistic reading of the ancient work of art.
3. Greek Art in the Western colonies, especially in Sicily.

For those who have not attended courses in classical archaeology:
E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia Greca, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2011, p. 514 R. Bianchi Bandinelli, L’arte romana nel centro del potere, B.U.R., pp. 340.
R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Roma, La fine dell’arte antica, B.U.R., pp. 1-104

For those who have attended courses in classical archaeology:
T. Holscher, L’archeologia Cassica. Un’introduzione, L'Erma di Bretschneider 2010, pp. 360
For everybody :
G. Rizza - E. De Miro, Le arti figurative dalle origini al V secolo a.C., pp. 125-242 ;
N. Bonacasa - E. Joly, L’ellenismo e la tradizione ellenistica, pp. 277-358.
in Sikanie. Storia e Civiltà dei Greci, Milano 1985.
P. Orlandini, Le arti figurative, in Megale Hellas, Milano 1983, pp. 331-556.