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Florence, Italy - Course Descriptions - Etruscan Art, Culture, and Civilization
Course Information
| Subject: |
Art and Design (ARDE) |
| Number: |
300 Level |
Contact Hours and Credits
4 Weeks Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits
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Summary
COURSE DESCRIPTION
It is all too easy to accredit to the Greeks and Romans the foundation and civilized development of Europe. Largely unnoticed are the contributions made by the Etruscans who inhabited and cultivated central Italy for almost seven centuries. This course will try to rectify the unbalanced presentation that only Greeks and Romans are worthy of our attention when we consider the rise of Europe. Long before the Romans, the Etruscans created a sophisticate way of life that transmitted the cultural advances of the Middle East to West. Before we can claim the grandeur of Rome, we must recognize the cultural greatness of the Etruscans and their primacy in spreading European civilization.
This course will be divided into three main sections.
The first part will cover the background and early history of the Etruscans, emphasizing their developing cultural patterns, influence, and borrowings. The second section will deal with the “high” or “classical” period of civilization. The third unit will treat the late period, the rise of Rome, and the absorption of Etruscan culture into that of Rome.
Students will frequently be directed to the Archaeological Museum of Florence to see first hand some of the most important material of the Etruscans. There will be a mid-term and final and one or two reports or a journal (notebook). The location of the school affords a great opportunity not normally available to encounter and study the Etruscans.
Textbooks:
1) Boethius, Axel, Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture. New haven: Yale University Press, 1994
2) Brendel, Otto, Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995
3) Haynes, Sybille, Etruscan Civilization: a Cultural History. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000
Units:
I: Geography, Apennine Culture, Villanovan graves and Artifacts; Villanovan bronzes & urns; early Etruscans; early sites, pottery & bronzes, orientalizing;
bucchero, jewelry, ivory; roads, tombs (Cerveteri); Tarquinia and painted tombs; Veii, temples
II. Murlo; Northern Etruscans, cippi, Canopic urns; cinerary urns, sarcophagi; 5th century painting.
III. Fiesole, terracottas; armor and chariots; tripods; mirrors; thymiateria, cistae, statues & votives; language, coins, implements, utensils; Hellenistic tomb
painting.
All presentations will be made via power point and will be available for student review on computerized discs.
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