SCHEDULE WEEK 1

Wednesday • March 30, 2010

Topic: Art H 497 - Introduction

The Cult of the Image at the End of the Middle Ages

Meet: 9AM, Art History classroom, 3rd floor, UWRC Palazzo Pio

Reading:

• Gerhard Wolf, “Christ in His Beauty and Pain: Concepts of Body and Image in an Age of Transition (Late Middle Ages and Renaissance)”, in The Art of Interpreting, University Park, 1995, 164-97;
• Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art, Chicago, 1994, 349-54, 358-362, 409-419.

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Thursday • April 1, 2010

Topic: Art H 397

Centers of Power, Republican to Imperial Rome

Meet: 9AM, in front of the Portone (big door), UWRC Palazzo Pio

Hand out: photocopies of passports and visas, emergency cards

Presentations:

Arch of Constantine - Anisha

Trajan's Column - Becca

Reading:

• Augenti, 5-49, 144; Blue Guide, 35-124 (recommended overview);
• Elizabeth Marlowe, “Framing the Sun: The Arch of Constantine and the Roman Cityscape,” Art Bulletin 88 (June 2006): 223-242;
• Penelope Davies, “The Politics of Perpetuation: Trajan’s Column and the Art of Commemoration,” American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997): 41-65;
• James Ackerman, “Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill,” Renaissance News 10 (Summer 1957): 69-75.

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Tips for site visits

• Buy a notebook to take to sites
• Take notes when you are at the sites!
• Wear comfortable shoes
• Bring water, sunscreen, camera, garment for warmth/cover
• Bring your blue guide
• Come prepared having read the material for the day
• Bring a map! If you don't already have one, you can get one at Feltrinelli (on Largo Argentina across from the tram)

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Events

Culture week • www.beniculturali.it

This year Italy's annual Settimana della Cultura will be April 16 - 25. During this week (10 days, actually) there will be many special openings, exhibits, concerts, guided tours, and other initiatives throughout Italy, and admission to State museums, monuments and archeological sites is free.