- Docente: Sandro De Maria
- Credits: 10
- SSD: L-ANT/07
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giuseppe Lepore (Modulo 1) Sandro De Maria (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Historic-artistic and Musical Heritage (cod. 0401)
Learning outcomes
The course provides essential knowledge of the material forms into which the cultures of the Roman world have developed: territorial and urban arrangement, buildings and monumental contexts, figurative expressions, crafts, from the Republican period to the Late Imperial Age. Attention will be drawn mainly to Rome and Roman Italy, though spreading out towards the Roman provincial world. The student will thus take possession of the basic instruments of archaeological research, both for the elaboration and investigation of what is known, and for a first approach to on-field archaeological research, further improved in the laboratories and the excavations.
Course contents
Periodization of Roman culture from Monarchic age to Late Antiquity. The origin of Rome and its urbanistic and monumental development. Rome and Italy; colonies and municipia, roads, towns, and territories. The historical reliefs. The forms of living: the Roman house. Fora, temples, public buildings. The world of images: "cultivated" and "plebeian" art; wall painting and mosaics. The facial expression: development of Roman portrait in the Roman figurative culture. Italy and the provinces. The problem of Late Antiquity in realtion to material culture.
Readings/Bibliography
All students taking the exam must study on the following texts:
- R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Roma. L'arte romana nel centro del potere, Milano, Rizzoli editore.
- R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Roma. La fine dell'arte antica, Milano, Rizzoli editore.
Further, not required, bibliography of the course, directed in particular to students not attending the lessons:
- P. Zanker, Arte romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008.
- P. Zanker, Un'arte per l'impero. Funzione e intenzione delle immagini nel mondo romano, Milano, Electa editore.
- T. Hoelscher, Il linguaggio dell'arte romana, Torino, Einaudi editore.
- P. Gros, L'architettura romana dagli inizi del III secolo a.C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici, Milano, Longanesi editore, pp. 134-300.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons will be supplemented with debates on the various discussed themes. On- field work - in the archaeological sites and during the visits to monumental complexes and Museums - will considerably complete class preparation.
Assessment methods
Final exam will imply an oral test on some of the themes discussed during the lessons and on the methods of present-day archaeology applied to the Roman world. Learning during study tours and archaeological excavations will also be taken into account for final evaluation.
Teaching tools
Visual, digital and photographic materials will be utilized during the lessons. According to the available financial resources, a study tour in sites of the Roman Italy will be organized. The students of the course will also have the possibility to apply for summer archaeological campaigns under the direction of the teacher in Italy and in the Mediterranean world.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Sandro De Maria
See the website of Giuseppe Lepore