DU2302 Fifth Century in Rome: Art, Liturgy and Pagans

Faculty of Arts
Spring 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.
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