FF:DU2302 Fifth Century in Rome - Course Information
DU2302 Fifth Century in Rome: Art, Liturgy and Pagans
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- each even Friday 9:00–12:40 K31
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to familiarize students as fully as possible with artistic productions of Rome in the fifth century. On the basis of aesthetic creation, the relation of painting, architecture and liturgy, dialogue between pagans and Christians, and the impact of the rhetoric on the artistic production will be reflected.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- to focus on a complex dialogue between art, rhetoric and performance;
- critically reflect historiographical production of late antiquity;
- to consider independently the issue of the encountres between "Gentiles" and "Christians" in the framework of the Late Antique synchertistic society; - Syllabus
- - Traditio Legis? Vatican at the end of IV. century, and Roman cultural identity - Santa Pudenziana, Pagans and Christians - Fasting and image: the doors of Santa Sabina - The Ivory casket from the British Museum and the Easter liturgy - Baptistery of the Lateran, baptism and forgiveness - Santa Maria Maggiore: Christian narratives and manuscripts - The Bishop and his liturgy,triumphal arch in Santa Maria Maggiore - Rhetoric and legitimation of power in the Basilic of San Paolo Fuori le Mura - The roman "ideal" absis: Sant'Andrea in Catabarbara
- Literature
- required literature
- Maria Andaloro, L'orizzonte tardoantico e le nuove immagni 312-468, Milano 2008
- ANDALORO, Maria. La pittura medievale a Roma, 312-1431 : atlante : percorsi visivi. 1a ed. Milano: Jaca Book, 2006, 325 s. ISBN 8816603771. 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
- MATTHIAE, Guglielmo. Pittura romana del medioevo. Edited by Maria Andaloro. Roma: Fratelli Palombi, 1987, 310 s. ISBN 8876212345. info
- recommended literature
- KRAUTHEIMER, Richard. Three Christian capitals : topography and politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, xiv, 167. ISBN 0520045416. info
- Teaching methods
- interactive lecture with images
- Assessment methods
- oral examination
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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