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CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOLOGY

Eliana MUGIONE CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOLOGY

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DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ANCIENT WORLD
2014/2015

YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2008
PRIMO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
630LESSONS
ELIANA MUGIONE T Curriculum
Objectives
COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE THE METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS TO DECODE THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT IMAGES BOTH STARTING FROM SOURCES OF DOCUMENTATION (FOR EXAMPLE LITERARY SOURCES) BOTH IN THE ABSENCE OF A DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF CULTURAL REFERENCE SYSTEM, INTEGRATED BY THE RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY. COURSE AIMS TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO DECODE THE ICONOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN PARTICULAR IN RELATIONS TO SPECIFIC EXEMPLES AND TO FIGURATIVE PROGRAMS IN MAIN CONTEXTS. THROUGH THE READING OF METHODOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OF SPECIFIC FIGURATIVE PROGRAMS IT WILL DEVELOP THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT FIGURATIVE PROGRAMS AND METHODOLOGY FOR APPLYING THE TOOLS TO SET ORIGINAL RESEARCH. ALSO IT WILL DEVELOP THE JUDGEMENT IN THE READING OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE THE FOREGROUND KNOWLEDGES.
Prerequisites
GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND OF GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY; ABILITY TO READ AND COMMENT ON HISTORICAL AND LITERARY TEXTS.
ABILITY TO READING FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
Contents
THROUGH THE READING OF ESSAYS AND TEXTS IT WILL BE ANALYZED SOME SIGNIFICANT ICONOGRAPHIC SERIES IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO USE CORRECTED METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS IN CONNECTION WITH IMAGES OF CORPORA CONSISTENT WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMAGES AND TEXTS. IT WILL ANALYZE THE PROBLEM OF PRODUCTION OF THE IMAGES AND RECEPTION IN OTHER CULTURAL CONTEXTS. THEREFORE IT WILL BE UNDERLINED THE READING OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURATIVE PROGRAMS IN PARTICULAR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS.
Teaching Methods
LESSONS DURING WHICH WILL BE SHOWN THE MAIN LITERATURE SUPPORT AND METHODS OF APPROACH, EVEN THROUGH THE USE OF COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA (POWER POINT) AND WORKSHOPS WITH PROFESSORS AND EXTERNAL PHD RESEARCHER DURING WHICH STUDENTS WILL EXPERIENCE OF METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS.
Verification of learning
EXERCISES DURING THE COURSE; FINAL ORAL EXAMINATION BY VOTE DURING WHICH WILL TEST THE FOREGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF READING OF ANCIENT IMAGES; THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE METHODS OF RESEARCH IN ICONOGRAPHIAL READING; THE AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT TOWARDS THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES; ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE THE FOREGROUND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FIGURATIVE PROGRAMS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
Texts
METODOLOGY:
E. PANOFSKY, INTRODUZIONE IN STUDI DI ICONOLOGIA, , EINAUDI TORINO 1975, PP. 3-38
F. LISSARRAGUE, ICONOGRAPHIE GRECQUE: ASPECTS ANCIEN ET RECENTS DE LA RECHERCHE, IN ICONOGRAFIA 2001. STUDI SULL’IMMAGINE ANTICA. (A CURA DI I COLPO, I FAVARETTO, F. GHEDINI), ROMA 2003, PP. 9-14
L. CERCHIAI, QUESTIONI DI METODO, MEFRA 124.2 (2012), PP. 407-412.
ICONOGRAPHICAL GREEK EXAMPLES:
ALBA DELLA CITTÀ, ALBA DELLE IMMAGINI ?. – EDITED BY B. D’AGOSTINO. – ATHÈNES : SCUOLA ARCHEOLOGICA ITALIANA, 2008.
MYTHS, TEXTS, IMAGES : HOMERIC EPICS AND ANCIENT GREEK ART : PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE ODYSSEY, ITHACA, SEPTEMBER 15-19, 2009:
E. KEFALIDOU, DEAD MEN FACE DOWN : HOMER, ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, PP. 121-151;
E. WALTER-KARYDI, POLYGNOTOS’ NEKYIA OR THE ATHENIANS AND THE UNDERWORLD, PP. 209-238;
L. GIULIANI, RHESOS : ON THE PRODUCTION OF IMAGES AND THE READING OF TEXTS, PP. 239-256.;
F. LISSARRAGUE, TRANSMISSION AND MEMORY : THE ARMS OF THE HEROES, PP. 191-207.

FUNCTION OF GREEK IMAGES IN SOUTHERN ITALY:
C- POUZADOUX, ÉLOGE D’UN PRINCE DAUNIEN : MYTHES ET IMAGES EN ITALIE MÉRIDIONALE AU IVE SIÈCLE AV. J.-C, ROME 2013.
More Information
DURING THE COURSE IT WILL PROVIDE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND POWER-POINTS.
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