00048 - Christian Archaeology

Learning outcomes

The teaching points to give to the students the essential instruments to go into the study and the research of the knowledge's branches of the Christian world, also in connection with the specific subject-matters that year by year will be considered. At the end of the course, on the bases of the instruments that have been given, the student is able to undrestand critically the problems related to  the knowledge's branches of the Christian world,  expecially about the architecture and the figurative arts.

Course contents

The teaching consists of two parts: the firt one specialized, whose subject is "Early christian Ravenna", and the other one of general character. The specialized course, provided by the professor, will try to introduce to the study and will start the examination of the early christian monuments of Ravenna and its area, setting them in the wide context of western and eastern architecture of the same period.

The general part will be provided by the student, against an introduction made by the professor.

Readings/Bibliography

Specialized course: E. Russo, Archeologia e storia dell'arte a Ravenna fino al VI secolo D.C., in "Ravenna Studi e ricerche", IV/" (1997), pp. 97-146; E. Russo, L'architettura di Ravenna paleocristiana, Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2003.

Further bibliography  will be provided by the professor during the lessons.

General part (provided by the student): F.W. Deichmann, Archeologia cristiana (in full). Deichmann's work is consultable with the original photogrphies in the Faculty's library.

A. Grabar, L'arte paleocristiana, Milano, Rizzoli (in full) 

A. Grabar, L'età d'oro di Giustiniano, Milano, Rizzoli (in full)

Assessment methods

Will be fixed with the students during the lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Eugenio Russo