75669 - History of Ancient Near Eastern Art (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2015/2016

Learning outcomes

Basic knowledge of methods and problems in the history of art of the Ancient Near East

Course contents

Sculptural complexes of the Iron Age in Syria and South-East Anatolia: Visual communication and architectural settings

Readings/Bibliography

P. Matthiae, La storia dell'arte dell'Oriente Antico III. I primi imperi e i principati del Ferro, 1600-700 a.C., Milano 1997

A. Gilibert, Syro-Hittite monumental art and the archaeology of performance: the stone reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the earlier first millennium BCE, Berlin 2011.

A choice of two articles from: I. J. Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East. 1: Of the First Millennium B.C.E., Leiden - Boston 2010.

A choice of two articles from: S. Mazzoni (ed.), Nuove fondazioni nel Vicino Oriente antico: realtà e ideologia : atti del Colloquio, 4-6 dicembre 1991, Pisa 1994.

Consultazione di W. Orthmann, Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn 1971.

 

Assessment methods

Readings in English only may be assigned upon request

Teaching tools

http://hittitemonuments.com

Office hours

See the website of Nicolò Marchetti