- Docente: Anna Spinelli
- Credits: 10
- SSD: L-OR/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Oriental History, Cultures and Civilisation (cod. 0347)
Learning outcomes
We are studying about the development of Islamic Civilization, its mark on the arts, skills and knowing on the countries conquered by Islam or in which it spread, the influences inherited from previous artistic traditions and the exchanges with other great cultures.
Course contents
- Starting from the centuries before the origin of Islam and the very beginnign of Arabic expansion, we are going to recover the historical evolution of Islamic culture and art compared to Mediterranean, European and Asian civilizations until the present day.
- The consequential historical development of Islamic Art in all the lands of Islamic influence, including architecture and minor guilds, the spreading influences on all other arts and culture.
Readings/Bibliography
For specific books in English, French, etc. in the University Libruary please contact the professor. In bookshops students can find:
Anna Spinelli, Arte Islamica, la misura del metafisico, Vol I, Ravenna, Fernandel Scientifica, 2008 (Vol. II to complete the work should be printed on September 2008); Luca Mozzati, Islam, Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2002 (first edition, no pokets abridged); Islam Arte e Architettura, edited by Markus Hattstein and Peter Delius, Colonia, Konemann, 2001( this book has other editions in Europe in English, German, Spanish, etc.); Giovanni Curatola and Gianroberto Scarcia, Le arti nell'Islam (various reprints).
Some helpful supporting subjects can be found in the followings:
Anna Spinelli, Arte Islamica e Mediterraneo, Castelli, Musica, Maioliche, Bologna, Libreria Bonomo; Anna Spinelli, Arte Islamica, L'architettura timuride, Bologna, Libreria Bonomo; Anna Spinelli, Arte Islamica, la moschea e il minareto, Bologna, Libreria Bonomo; Anna Spinelli, Arte Islamica. Spazi sacri a confronto; Bologna, Libreria Bonomo.
Teaching methods
Lectures and slides as support.
Teaching tools
Finds, objects, models, photocopies and slides will be organized by the professor during the course. Some extra papers can be asked at the Department Libruary Desk. They are miscellaneous writings and books used during the previous years and can be photocopied.
Office hours
See the website of Anna Spinelli