- Docente: Valentina Laviola
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History, preservation and enhancement of artistic and archaeological heritage and landscape (cod. 9218)
Course contents
The course introduces to the formative period of Islamic art between the 7th and early 10th century, providing a brief historical overview about the origin and spread of Islam. The focus will be on the Near East and Mesopotamia, yet looking westward and eastward to the North Africa and Khurasan.
Through the analysis of the main archaeological sites and monuments, it presents the creation of new buildings and the re-use and transformation of pre-existing ones.
The course deals with the evolution of the religious architecture, presenting the different mosque models and the regional features.
The civil architecture concerns the Umayyad non urban complexes and the early Abbasid royal palaces, not forgetting the foundation of the main cities and new capitals.
An overview of the Islamic material culture will conclude the course.
Readings/Bibliography
Ettinghausen, Richard, Grabar, Oleg, Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven-London, 2001, pp. 1-73 (ed. 1987-1994, pp. 1-125).
Scerrato, Umberto, Grandi monumenti. Islam, Milano, 1972, pp. 8-38.
Not attending students:
Ettinghausen, Richard, Grabar, Oleg, Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven-London, 2001, pp. 1-125.
Scerrato, Umberto, Grandi monumenti. Islam, Milano, 1972, pp. 8-38.
Monneret de Villard, Ugo, Introduzione allo studio dell’archeologia islamica. Le origini e il periodo omayyade, Venezia – Roma, 1968, pp. 1-298.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Educational support tools will be made available to students with disabilities.
Assessment methods
Oral evaluation.
Students will be asked to contextualise archaeological sites and monuments from a geographical and chronological point of view as well as to describe their architectural features and decorative techniques starting from the analysis of the plan.
Teaching tools
Power point presentations, geographical maps, buildings' plans.
Office hours
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