50239 - Palaeo-Christian and Early Medieval Archaeology and Art History

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Eugenio Russo
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ANT/08
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

The teaching points to give to the students the essential instruments to go into the study and the research of the knowledge's branches of the Ealy Crhristian and Early Medieval world, particularly about the archaeological and art historical problems. At the end of the course, on the bases of the instruments that have been given, the student critically understands the problems related to the Early Christian and Early Medieval world and is able to organize researches and studies about the cultures of the Late Antique and Early Medieval Cristianity.

Course contents

Constantinople until the Iconoclasm (part I).

Readings/Bibliography

Specialized course: E. RUSSO, Costantinopoli: Architettura e scultura nei primi secoli, in AA.VV., Bisanzio, Costantinopoli, Istanbul,Milano 2008, Jaca Book, pp. 39-108, 395-398, 405-406.

E. RUSSO, Le decorazioni di Isidoro il Giovane per S. Sofia di Costantinopoli, Roma 2011, Viella (in full).

Further bibliography will be provided by the professor during the lessons.

General parte (provided by the student): E. Kitzinger, L'arte bizantina, Milano, Il Saggiatore (in full)

P. Toesca, Storia dell'arte italiana. Il Medioevo, Torino 1927, pp. 1-462, Torino 1965, pp. 1-458.

Assessment methods

Will be fixed with the students during the lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Eugenio Russo