Art History / Classics 300: Greek Art and Archaeology
Fall 2006
Schedule and Readings

Week 1: Introduction; the Etruscans

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage Introduction, ch. 1
• Images: Introduction; Etruscan Architecture

Objects:

• Hut model [1.4]
• Canopic urns [1.4, 1.21]
• Villanovan Helmet [1.3]
• Villanovan and Etruscan Pottery [1.6-1.7]
• (City of Marzabotto; compare Greek colonies of Paestum [1.16]
• Temple of Minerva at Veii [1.15, cf. 1.16]
• (Temples at Pyrgi, Orvieto)
• Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, Rome [1.18]

Week 2: The Etruscans (2)

• Reading: Bonfante, Etruscan Life and Afterlife ch. 4 (“Art”) (on reserve)
• Images: Etruscan Sculpture and Minor Arts; Etruscan Tombs and Painting

Objects:

• Architectural Sculpture: Apollo of Veii [1.22]
• (Pediments from Pyrgi)
• Terracotta revetments from Murlo [1.19-1.20]
• Other Etruscan Sculptures
• She-Wolf of Rome [1.1.25]
• Chimaera from Arezzo [1.27]
• Portrait from Manganello [1.33-1.34]
• Mars of Todi [1.31]
• Aulus Metellus [1.36]
• “Brutus” [1.35]
• Etruscan mirrors [1.45; Elvehjem Museum]
• Ficoroni Cista [1.46-47]
• Etruscan Tombs
• Banditaccia Cemetery (necropolis) at Cerveteri [1.8]
• Regolini-Galassi Tomb, Cerveteri [1.1, 1.9-11]
• Tomb of Shields & Chairs, Cerveteri [1.12-13]
• Tomb of the Reliefs, Cerveteri [1.14]
• Reclining couple sarcophagus, from Cerveteri [1.28]
• Urn of Arnth Velimnas, Perugia [1.29]
• “Peperino Sarcophagus” with reclining couple [1.30]
• Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia [1.38-39]
• Tomb of Lionesses, Tarquinia [1.41]
• Tomb of Augurs, Tarquinia [1.40]
• Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia [1.37]
• François Tomb, Vulci [1.43]

Week 3: The Roman Republic (1)

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 2
• Images: Cosa and Republican Architecture 1; Republican Architecture 2 and Portraiture

Objects:

• Town of Cosa, with forum including comitium, curia, sanctuary of Concord, prison, basilica; citadel (arx); houses [2.13]
• City of Rome: Servian Wall [2.16]
• Roman Forum [2.17-20]
• Regia
• Curia
• Comitium
• Lapis Niger
• Rostra
• Basilica Aemilia
• Basilica Julia
• Tabularium
• Porticus Aemilia
• Roads, aqueducts (Via Appia; Aqua Appia; Aqua Claudia [4.25]); Cloaca Maxima [2.15]
• Temple of Portunus [2.12]
• Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste [2.10-2.11, mosaic 2.58]
• Sanctuary of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina [2.6-8]
• Republican Portraiture
• “Brutus” [1.35]
• Aulus Metellus [1.36]
• Patrician with portrait heads [2.29]
• Other Republican portraits [2.30-2.32]
• Bust of Pompey [2.36, cf. 2.37]
• Reliefs from Temple of Mars and Neptune? [2.26-2.27]
• Port of Ostia [2.14, 2.21-22]

Quiz 1: Feb. 7

Week 4: Augustan Rome and the Birth of Empire

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 3
• Kleiner, “The Great Frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae”, in D'Ambra, Roman Art in Context
• Zanker, The power of images in the Age of Augustus ch. 1, 4, 5 (on reserve)
• The Res Gestae of Augustus
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta [3.20]
• Augustus as Priest, from Via Labicana [3.22-3.23]
• Portrait of Livia [3.24-3.25]
• Forum of Augustus [3.2-3.4]
• Theater of Pompey [3.9-3.10]
• Theater of Marcellus [3.11]
• Basilica Aemelia [sculpture: 3.37-38]
• Ara Pacis, Rome [3.26-3.27, 3.29, 3.31, 3.33-34]
• Sundial (horologium) of Augustus [3.36]
• Mausoleum of Augustus [3.5]
• Arch at Rimini [3.14]
• Bridge at Narni [3.15-16]
• Temple at Nîmes (“Maison Carrée”) [3.8]
• (Temple of Augustus and Rome at Ankara)
• Portland Vase [3.39]
• Boscoreale Cups [3.41-42]

Week 5: The Julio-Claudian Dynasty

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 4
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• The Gemma Augustea [4.1-4.2]
• (The Villa of Tiberius at Capri)
• The Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga [4.6 - 4.9, 4.11]
• The Laocoon [4.10]
• Sculpture from Punta Epitaffio [4.12-4.13]
• Portraits of the Julio-Claudians [4.15-4.17]
• Portraits of citizens [4.19-20]
• The Golden House (Domus Aurea) of Nero [4.32-4.34, 2.54]
• Pont du Gard, near Nîmes [4.24]
• Arch at Orange, Gaul [4.4-4.5]
• Aqueduct and theater at Segovia [4.27-29]
• City of Aphrodisias, in Turkey: Sebasteion, bouleuterion, stadium, etc. [4.3, 4.23]

Week 6: Cities of Vesuvius 1: Town Planning

• Reading: Zanker, Pompeii pp. 3-133.
• check out Mau, Pompeii: Its Life and Art.
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• City Plan of Pompeii [5.33]
• Temples: Apollo, others
• The Forum [5.37]
• Temple of Apollo
• Basilica
• Temple of Jupiter
• Imperial Cult Building
• Theater
• Amphitheater [cf. 5.50]
• Temple of Isis
• Stabian and Forum Baths [5.34-5.35]

Exhibition In Stabiano opens Mar 17. Lecture by Thomas Howe: “Powerhouses of Ancient Rome: The Seaside Villas of Stabiae”, Thursday Mar. 22, 7:00 PM, L160 Elvehjem Building.

Quiz 2: Feb. 28

Week 7: Cities of Vesuvius 2: Houses and Villas

• Reading: Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society ch. 1-3.
• Catalog to In Stabiano (on reserve).
• Leach, “Patrons, Painters and Patterns” in D'Ambra, Roman Art in Context
• Allison, Pompeian households ch. 1-2; familiarize yourself with the rest; cf. web site http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/home.
• Excerpts from Petronius, Satyricon, and other ancient sources on Pompeii and daily life, linked on the web site for this course (http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah304/syllabus.html)
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• House of the Surgeon, Pompeii
• House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii [2.5]
• House of Sallust, Pompeii [2.41]
• House of the Faun, Pompeii [mosaic: 2.56 - 2.57]
• House of the Vettii, Pompeii [5.38-41, 5.45]
• Rustic Villas: Boscoreale, Boscotrecase, Villa of the Mysteries near Pompeii; Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum [2.2; 2.44 - 2.48, 2.50; 3.44]
• Luxury Villas at Oplontis, Stabiae, etc. [2.43; exhibition]
• Painting Styles, First-Fourth [2.41-55; 3.41-49]
• Shops and Workshops

Week 8: A New Start: The Flavians

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 5
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• Portrait of Vespasian [5.2]
• Flavian Portraits [5.21-5.29]
• Tomb of the Haterii [5.19]
• Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) [5.3 - 5.7]
• Stadium of Domitian [5.9]
• (Circus Maximus)
• Flavian Palace [5.14-5.15]
• Arch of Titus [5.10 - 5.13]
• Cancelleria Reliefs [5.16, 5.17]

Week 9: The Golden Age 1: Trajan

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage chs. 6-7
• Images: Lectures 1 and 2

Objects:

• Portrait of Trajan [6.2]
• (Portrait of Plotina)
• Baths of Trajan [6.3]
• Forum and Market of Trajan [6.4-6.9]
• Column of Trajan [6.1, 6.10-6.17]
• Great Trajanic Frieze [6.21]
• Arch of Trajan at Beneventum [6.22-6.24]
• Tropaeum Traiani [6.18-6.19]
• Timgad, Algeria [6.27-28]

Week 10 (continued): Hadrian

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 7
• Recommended: MacDonald, Imperial Roman Architecture vol. 2, ch. 5: The Pantheon.
• Images: Lecture 1 and 2

Quiz 3: Mar. 28

Objects:

• Portrait of Hadrian from Crete [7.32]
• Portrait of Sabina [7.33]
• Apotheosis of Sabina [7.34]
• Portrait of Antinous [7.36]
• Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli [7.2-8]
• Pantheon, Rome [7.10-15]
• Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome [7.16-17]
• The Olympieion, Athens [7.21]
• Library of Hadrian, Athens
• Temple of Hadrian, Ephesus [7.24-26]
• Library of Celsus, Ephesus [7.28]
• (Temple of Trajan, Pergamon)
• Mausoleum of Hadrian, Rome [7.18-19]
• Sarcophagi: [7.38]:
• of Lucius Cornelius Scipio [2.24]
• showing myth of Orestes [7.39]
• showing Achilles at Court of Lycomachus [7.41]
• showing Labors of Hercules [7.42]

Week 11: Spring Break

Week 12: The Antonines

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 8.
• Images: Lecture 1

Objects:

• Portrait of Antoninus Pius [8.3]
• Portrait of Faustina, from Sardis, and other Antonine portraits [8.4-5]
• Portraits of Lucius Verus [8.13-14]
• Bust of Commodus as Hercules [8.40]
• (Portraits of the Antonines from Sardis)
• Column base of Antoninus Pius [8.20-22]
• Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Roman Forum [8.6]
• Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius [Frontispiece, 8.18-19]
• Arch of Marcus Aurelius (reused in Arch of Constantine) [8.23]
• Column of Marcus Aurelius [8.24-29]
• Commodus as Hercules [8.36]
• Mummy Portraits from the Fayoum [8.15-17]
• Melfi Sarcophagus [8.34]

Week 13: The Severan Dynasty

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 9
• Images: Lecture 1; Lecture 2

Objects:

• Portraits of Septimius Severus, incl. bronze from Cyprus [9.3, 9.4]
• Portrait of Julia Domna [cf. 9.5]
• Family portrait of the Severans, from the Fayoum [9.6]
• Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome [9.8-10]
• Arch of Septimius Severus, Leptis Magna [9.11-15]
• Urban Development of Leptis Magna [9.16-20]
• Old Forum
• Theater
• Market Building
• Amphitheater
• Hadrianic Baths
• Hunting Baths [9.15, 9.17]
• Forum of Septimius Severus [9.14, 9.16]
• Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis [9.30-31]
• Portraits of Caracalla [9.33-34]
• Baths of Caracalla [9.36-38]
• Season Sarcophagus [9.40]
• (Season Sarcophagus in the Chazen Museum)

Quiz 4: Apr. 18

Week 14: Crisis of the Third Century

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 10
• Images

Objects:

• Portrait of Caracalla [9.30]
• Portrait of Alexander Severus [9.41]
• Portrait of Maximinus Thrax [10.1]
• Portrait and Sarcophagus of Balbinus [10.3-4]
• (Portrait of Pupienus)
• Portrait of Philip the Arab [10.6]
• Portrait of Trebonianus Gallus [10.7-8]
• Portrait of Trajan Decius
• Portrait of Gallienus [10.11]
• Portrait of Aurelian [10.13]
• Aurelian Wall [10.13]
• Slope Houses, Ephesus (redated to mid-3d century) [10.18-20]

Week 15: The Tetrarchs and Constantine

• Reading: Ramage & Ramage ch. 11-12.
• Images: The Tetrarchs; Constantine

Objects:

• (Portrait of Diocletian)
• Portrait of the Tetrarchs [11.23]
• (Price Edict of Diocletian)
• Palace of Diocletian at Split [11.2-4]
• Mausoleum and Arch of Galerius at Thessalonica [11.13-15]
• Villa at Piazza Armerina, Sicily [11.1, 11.17-20]
• Baths of Diocletian, Rome [11.5-8]
• Basilica of Maxentius (aka Basilica Nova, Basilica of Constantine) [11.8-10]
• Portrait of Constantine [12.12]
• Arch of Constantine [12.1-7]
• Statue of Constantine from Basilica of Maxentius [12.9-11]
• Diptych of the Symmachi [12.34]

Week 16: Catchup and Presentations

Quiz 5: May 9