Programme

Development of Roman art, from the Republican age to the Constantinian era, with particular attention to the genre of the portrait. Collecting as an element of art continuity.

Core Documentation

IL CRICCO DI TEODORO, Itinerario nell’arte. Dalla preistoria all’arte romana, Versione gialla (maior), Zanichelli ed., VOL. 2 (chapter on Roman art and any connected itineraries)

A.M. RICCOMINI, Il ritratto, Carocci Editore, 2015 (chapters on the Roman portrait)

G. CALCANI, Il collezionismo di antichità. Caratteristiche, storie e personaggi dall'Antichità classica al Medioevo, Efesto Edizioni 2017

Reference Bibliography

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Rome, the Centre of Power,Thames & Hudson (any year of edition) Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Rome, the Late Empire: Roman Art, G. Braziller, New York (any year of edition) Clemente Marconi (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture Oxford University Press, 2015

Type of delivery of the course

Classroom lectures with power point presentations and guided tours of Rome's monuments and archaeological museums aimed at direct knowledge of Roman art works.

Attendance

Attendance at lectures and participation in museum visits is not mandatory, but recommended, because it encourages discussion and strengthens critical analysis tools

Type of evaluation

Ongoing evaluations are planned to divide the preparation of the study program. Based on the number of attending students, these tests may be written or oral. In both modalities in itinere assessments will consist of tests of recognition, dating and critical discussion of works of art, selected from those commented in the lectures, in the museums visited during the course and present in the text adopted for the exam. At the end of the course there will be an oral summary exam, aimed at verifying the ability to establish relationships between concepts and topics covered.