KLBcB66 The colours of Marble: polychromy and ancient sculpture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Elisabetta Gagetti, PhD. (lecturer), PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Bouzek, DrSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
KLBcA01 Introduction to Class. Arch.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course the students should be able to be acquainted with: • the aesthetical debate between Neoclassicism and Romanticism about the “beauty of the white” • the first discoveries of colour traces on Greek monuments: the case of the pedimental statues from the temple of Aphaia at Aegina • the different colours of relief backgrounds, and the monuments considered • the vogue, after the scientific debate, of coloured casts and polychrome sculpture in modern art (end of the 19th - beginnig of the 20th century) • the main types of coloured marbles exploited in the Roman Empire • the idea of the use of precious coloured marble for state monuments intended to political propaganda • the existence of a “double” polychromy in Roman sculpture: statues in coloured marble and painted statues
Syllabus
  • Subjects of the lessons (ten 2-hour lessons): 1. Ancient polychromy: a theoretical debate between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. 2. The coloured pediments of Greek temples: the case of Aegina 3. The colour of the background: Greek reliefs (funerary steles and the metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia) and friezes (thesauros of the Syphnians at Delphoi, frieze of the Parthenon) 4. Ancient polychromy and modern art 5. Painted marble vases. The “treasure” from Ascoli Satriano (Southern Italy: 4th cent. BC) 6. All the colours of the Ara Pacis Augustae 7. The coloured marbles of the Roman empire 8. Coloured marbles and political propaganda, part I: the age of Augustus 9. Coloured marbles and political propaganda, part II: the Imperial Fora 10. Coloured marbles and painted marbles: polychromy in Roman statuary
Literature
    recommended literature
  • • Schneider M., Bunte Barbaren. Orientalenstatuen aus farbigem Marmor in der römischen Repräsentationskunst, Worms 1986.
  • • Bunte Götter. Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur, Catalogue of the exhibition (München, 2003-2004), München 2003.I marmi colorati della Roma imperiale, Caatalogue of the exhibition (Roma, 2003), ed. by M. M. De Nuccio e L. Ungaro, Venezia 2003.
  • • Radiance in Stone. Sculptures in coloured marble from the Museo Nazionale Romano, Catalogo della mostra (Atlanta, 1989-1990), ed. by M.L. Anderson and L. Nista, Roma 1989.
  • • I marmi dipinti di Ascoli Satriano, Catalogue of the exhibition (Roma, 2009-2010), ed. by A. Bottini and E. Setari, Milano 2009.
  • • O. Rossini, Ara Pacis. I colori del bianco, in “Archeo”, XXV, 1, january 2009, pp. 66-75.
  • • A. Rouveret, Peintures grecques antiques. La collection hellénistique du Musée du Louvre, Paris 2004.
  • • Color in ancient Greece. The role of color in ancient Greek art and architecture, 700-31 BC, Proceedings of the conference (Thessaloniki, 2000), ed. by M.A. Tiverios and D.S. Tsiafakis, Thessaloniki 2002.
Teaching methods
Lessons with PowerPoint presentations (in English)
Assessment methods
Written examination: multiple choice test (in English; in particular cases only, after a previous written request to the teacher, a Czech version of the test can be supplied) • Ten questions about an image – already seen during the lessons – each one with three questions (of which only one is correct), according to the subjects of the lessons Requirements for the test: • Knowledge of the contents of the lessons • The reading of some texts in literature is suggested
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: předmět je přednášen anglicky.
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