DU1365 Seminar: Roma, an portrait of the city (312-1337)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Ivan Foletti (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Timetable
each even Friday 10:50–14:05 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Caput Mundi is one of the many epithets of Rome, which emphasize the vital role within the European but also world civilization. This seminar will therefore seek to bring significant steps that have accompanied the birth and growth of christian art and Roman art, therefore, the European Middle Ages. Paradoxically, however, Roman cultural identity is also formed within a negation of the outside world, being eternally "busy" artistic reflection of themselves. Throughout the Middle Ages will therefore be studied in detail the work that clearly reflect this dual ambition of the Roman art of propaganda: versatility, combined with the presence of St. Peter and autoreflection See. Therefore Sigmund Freud compare the Eternal City to the human brain. The aim of this workshop is therefore to practice students' ability to focus in detail, in the Roman reality, one object of study, starting from a complex work with literature. At the same time for the practice of oral expression and the first steps in the production of autonomous scientific texts.
Syllabus
  • - I Introduction: How to prepare a seminar (work with literature, searching sources, metodology...). - Introduction II: Birth of the Roman Christian culture. - Introduction III: The Emperor and the Pope. - Frescoes hypogea Via Livenza (IV c.). - Mosaic Church of the Holy Pudenziana (V c.). - Ivory reliefs of the Passion of the British Museum (V c). - Mosaics in the chapel of San Venanzio Lateran (VII c.). - Icon Madonna della Clemenza (VI-VIII c.). - Mosaic Church of the Holy Prassede (IX c.). - The icon of the last court of the Vatican (XI c.). - The frescoes in the papal chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum (XIII c.). - Jacopo Torriti and Santa Maria Maggiore (XIII c.). - Arnolfo di Cambio and the "Renaissance" of the sculpture (XIII c.). - Last Judgement of Pietro Cavallini in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (1290)
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDALORO, Maria. La pittura medievale a Roma, 312-1431 : corpus. 1a ed. Milano: Jaca Book, 2006, 482 s. ISBN 8816603712. info
  • ANDALORO, Maria and Serena ROMANO. Arte e iconografia a Roma : da Costantino a Cola di Rienzo. Edited by Augusto Fraschetti. 1. ed. Milano: Jaca Book, 2000, 266 s. ISBN 9788816405370. info
  • KRAUTHEIMER, Richard. Rome : profile of a city, 312-1308. Edited by Marvin Trachtenberg. 1st. print. with new forewor. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000, xxiv, 389. ISBN 0691049610. info
    recommended literature
  • ANDALORO, Maria. La pittura medievale a Roma, 312-1431 : atlante : percorsi visivi. 1a ed. Milano: Jaca Book, 2006, 325 s. ISBN 8816603771. info
  • MATTHIAE, Guglielmo. Pittura romana del medioevo. Edited by Francesco Gandolfo. Roma: Fratelli Palombi, 1988, 387 s. ISBN 8876212361. info
  • MATTHIAE, Guglielmo. Pittura romana del medioevo. Edited by Maria Andaloro. Roma: Fratelli Palombi, 1987, 310 s. ISBN 8876212345. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation, oral and written presentations by each participant, class discussion.
Assessment methods
An oral (45 min.) And written (10 pages of text, summarizing the current scientific situation) presentations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
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