Hello dear class.

as most of you heard on Thursday,

The first two weeks, we will look over imperial Rome and its arts from the 2nd century AD into the "late Antique"; I'll give you a firmer syllabus this

week, now that I know the scale of the course enrolment. Tuesday, we'll open looking at some case examples in class, to show you what we can do with visual

analysis; I'll concentrate upon the Arch of Constantine as a "way in".  Below are readings (which will turn into bulkpack, also, this week), and a key

to the existing image web which you can look over, from ArtH 101 and 221, to follow the orientation. (As soon as the library recovers its scanning ability,

we'll post our own web sets). Xeroxes exist as 'desk pamphlets" under my name at the Furness library reserve desk; those pamphlets should be accessible by

Monday night (their computer too has been down!). I'll have a fuller course bibliography and reserve set for you, machines cooperating, by the second full

week at the latest. As you skim around in the readings and image sets, you  will get a look at material on which you might like to concentrate later in

your chosen projects later in the course.

For Week If.:

Read: chapter 3, Poetry and the Visual Arts, in Michael Roberts' The Jeweled Style. Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity, Ithaca 1989. Desk

pamphlet ["Kuttner"] in Furness [Fisher Fine Arts Library]. - I'll start to address Roberts in the orientation lectures this week, and you should be able

to discuss it with me by the second full week of class. Look over: the Pelican handbook, Donald Strong's Roman Art. ed. 2 (1988),

ed. R. Ling: Furness reserve NS5760 .S68 1988 AND deskpamphlets of ch. 3-14, Flavians to

4th century AD:

Skim especially at ch. 11-14, pp. 250-327, figs. 185-263 (Tetrarchs to Theodosius). The first couple of pages of each chapter have a brief historical introduction.
 
 

WEB: History of Art home page, http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/arth/#academic

- bookmark it!
 
 

ArtH 221 Roman Art and Architecture Spring 1999

http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr99/221/index99.html

Images: Week 9 Rome Maps

Week 13 Forum and Column of Trajan, Arch of Trajan at Beneventum,

Hadrian's Hunt Tondi

Week 13-14 Basilica of Constantine, Portraits Hadrian-Constantine,

Column and Panel Reliefs of Marcus Aurelius

Week 14 Arch of Constantine and Sarcophagi

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ArtH 101 1998: http://www.library.upenn.edu/finearts/slide/101.html

clickable at bottom of ArtH 101 for Fall 1999 Courses

Roman and Late Antique weeks sets: * for our Week I-II

Week 10-11: Roman House Art

Week 10-11: Hellenistic Rome and the Age of Augustus

Week 10-11 Section: Campus Martius, Solarium, Mausoleum and Ara Pacis

*Week 10-11:The Roman Commemoration Monument

*Week 10-11:Late Antique Roman and Christian Imagery

Week 10-11:Church and State

Week 10-11:Section: San Vitale and Dome of the Rock

Week 11-12:Medieval Islam and Europe

Week 12:Section: Islamic Spain

Week 11-12:Charlemagne and Aachen