27280 - Seminars (1) (G.E)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar students will be able to interpret issues related to specific historical phenomena in a diachronic and transversal perspective, thought the elaboration and synthesis of the data coming from the analysis of written records and material sources and from the collective debate originated from the contact with other people. They will be able to formulate autonomously and in an organized way a research path or an intellectual work, using the specific acquired tools with methodological rigour, precision and accuracy.

Course contents

After a brief introduction to the course, the topics covered include:

1. Reading images: teorethical approaches;

2. History of the studies in iconology;

3. Iconography & iconology in archaeology;

4. Current research methods and tools and their issues;

5. Case studies in Etruscan and Pre-Roman Archaeology.

Readings/Bibliography

Literature here presented collects only general reference works, selected to support the students during the class.

A more detailed bibliography will be available on virtuale.it.

PANOFSKY, E. 1955. Meaning in the Visual Arts (see also later editions).

GOMBRICH, E.H. 1958. The Story of Art (and later editions).

GOMBRICH, E.H. 1959. Art and Illusion. A study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.

GOMBRICH, E.H. 1972. Art, Perception and Reality.

PANOFSKY, E. 1972. Studies in Iconology. Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (especially Chapter I, Introduction).

BERARD, C., BRON C., DURAND, J.-L., FRONTISI-DUCROUX, F., LISSARRAGUE, F., SCHNAPP, A. and VERNANT J.-P., 1989. A City of Images. Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece, Princeton.

LISSARRAGUE, F. 1990. Une approche de l'imagerie attique, in IDEM, L'autre guerrier. Archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l'imagerie attique.

VAN STRATEN, R. 1994. An introduction to Iconography. Symbols, Allusions and Meaning in the Visual Art (London-New York: Routledge).

WUNENBURGER, J.-J. 1997. Philosophie des images (Paris: Universitaires de France).

YATROMANOLAKIS, D. 2009 (ed.). An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase Painting and Contemporary Methodologies (Athens: Kardamitsa).

ISLER-KERÉNYI, C. 2015. "Iconographical and Iconological Approaches", in The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, edited by C. Marconi, pp. 557-578.

LUBTCHANSKY, N. 2017. "Iconography and Iconology, 19th to 21st Centuries" in Etruscology, edited by A. Naso, pp. 79-93.

Teaching methods

The course includes lectures, reading, discussions in class, and testing of the approaches to the interpretation of images.

Assessment methods

Discussion about the topics presented by the Teacher in class will be a significant part of the evaluation process.

Every student will be requested to carry on a study about a specific, limited topic related to images, image interpretation, theoretical issues or other.  

Students' researches will be presented by everyone in class and then submitted to the Teacher as an essay (3.000 words).

Teaching tools

Images presented and discussed in class, readings and several documents will be provided

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Pizzirani