Art and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean



HART 434

Art and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean,

Summer 2010

Instructor: Saygın Salgırlı

E-mail: salgirli@sabanciuniv.edu

Course Description: This course provides a comparative survey of the medieval art and architecture (3rd - 13th centuries) of the Mediterranean basin. The history of medieval art and architecture has been traditionally divided into various (Late Antique, Early Christian, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Jewish) compartments by temporal, stylistic and geographic lines. One aim of this course is to challenge such divisions by focusing on the larger Mediterranean basin in comparative light, and introducing continuities, interactions, contacts and conflicts that render the above categories obsolete. Another aim is to challenge the established practice of art and architectural history by focusing, instead of the form alone, on the comparable circumstances under which art and architecture were produced.

Textbook: Otto Karl Werckmeister, Medieval Art History: A Short Survey, 1986. Additional articles and selected chapters will be provided as a reading package, available for purchase at Canon.

Recommended: Eva R. Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Course Format and Grading: This course is designed as a cross between lecture and seminar. Therefore, student participation is an essential element, which means that “class participation and attendance” does not refer to simply being present in class and taking notes. It refers to joining the discussion, generating discussions, speaking and speaking up. While I will be trying to present you with one particular way of looking at medieval art history, you are most welcome, and encouraged, to challenge it.

Take-home Midterm: 25 %

Two-Page Weekly Response Papers: 35 %

Take-home Final: 25 %

Class Participation and Attendance: 15 %

Course Outline:

History, Historiography and Art 1:

Meyer Schapiro, “Style,” (143-150) in Donald Preziosi, ed. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

Otto Karl Werckmeister, “Jugglers in a Monastery,” (60-64) in Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, Meyer Schapiro (1994)

History, Historiography and Art 2:

Elizabeth Sears, “’Reading’ Images,” (1-9) in Elizabeth Sears, Thelma K. Thomas, eds. Reading Medieval Images: The Art Historian and the Object. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002

Robert Hillenbrand, “Studying Islamic Architecture: Challenges and Perspectives,” (1-18) in Architectural History, Vol. 46 (2003)

Overcoming the Dichotomies 1:

Richard Krautheimer, “Introduction to an ‘Iconography of Medieval Architecture’,” (115-151) in Richard Krautheimer. Studies in Early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance Art. New York: New York University Press, 1969

Jonathan M. Bloom, “On the Transmission of Designs in Early Islamic Architecture,” (21-28) in Muqarnas, Vol. 10, Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar (1993)

Overcoming the Dichotomies 2:

Jás Elsner, “The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style,” (11-18) in Eva R. Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Annabel Jane Wharton, “Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts,” (19-39) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

G. W. Bowersock, “Hellenism and Islam,” (85-96) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Image, Icon and Iconography 1:

John Lowden, “The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration,” (117-134) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Erica Cruikshank Dodd, “The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam,” (185-212) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Image, Icon and Iconography 2:

Gary Vikan, “Sacred Image, Sacred Power,” (135-146) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

G. R. D. King, “Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine,” (213-226) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Old St. Peter’s and the Great Mosque of Damascus:

Richard Krautheimer, “The Beginning of Early Christian Architecture,” (1-21) in Krautheimer, Studies in Early Christian…

James Snyder, et al. Art of the Middle Ages. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2006, pp. 219-224;

Rafi Grafman and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, “The Two Great Syrian Umayyad Mosques: Jerusalem and Damascus,” (1-15) in Muqarnas, Vol. 16, 1999.

Textbook: 32-38.

On Contested Grounds: The Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock:

Robert Ousterhout, “The Temple, the Sepulchre, and the Martyrion of the Savior,” (44-53) in Gesta, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1990)

Robert Ousterhout, “Architecture as Relic and the Construction of Sanctity: The Stones of the Holy Sepulcher,” (4-23) in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Mar., 2003)

Nasser Rabbat, “The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock,” (12-21) in Muqarnas, Vol. 6, (1989)

Nuha N. N. Khoury, “The Dome of the Rock, the Ka‘ba, and Ghumdan: Arab Myths and Umayyad Monuments,” (57-65) in Muqarnas, Vol. 10, Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar (1993).

Textbook: pp. 36, 37.

Architecture, Politics and Ideology: The Carolingian Empire and Al-Andalus:

Richard Krautheimer, “The Carolingian Revival of Early Christian Architecture,” (203-257) in Krautheimer, Studies in Early Christian…

Jerrilynn D. Dodds, “The Great Mosque of Córdoba,” (11-25) in Jerrilynn D. Dodds, ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992

Jerrilynn D. Dodds. Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990, pp. 94-106.

Textbook: 79-81 / 88-90 / 136-138.

Interaction and Conflict in Images 1:

Rachel Milstein, “Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era,” (229-241) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Robert S. Nelson, “An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” (242-269) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Interaction and Conflict in Images 2:

O. K. Werckmeister, “The Islamic Rider in the Beatus of Girona,” (101-106) in Gesta, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1997)

Oya Pancaroğlu, “The Itinerant Dragon-Slayer: Forging Paths of Image and Identity in Medieval Anatolia,” (151-164) in Gesta, Vol. 43, No. 2 (2004)

Architecture of the Conquerors:

Charles E. Nicklies, “Builders, Patrons, and Identity: The Domed Basilicas of Sicily and Calabria,” (99-114) in Gesta, Vol. 43, No. 2 (2004)

William Tronzo, “The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella

Palatina in Palermo,” (367-388) in Hoffman, ed. Late Antique and Medieval Art…

Scott Redford, “The Alaeddin Mosque in Konya Reconsidered,” (54-74) in Muqarnas, Vol. 51, No. 1/2 (1991).

Ascetics Reinvented: Cistercians and Dervishes:

Ethel Sara Wolper. Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, pp. 16-42

Ethel Sara Wolper, “The Politics of Patronage: Political Change and the Construction of Dervish Lodges in Sivas,” (39-47) in Muqarnas, Vol. 12, (1995);

Caecilia-Davis Weyer. Early Medieval Art, 300-1150: Sources and Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 168-170.

Textbook: 201, 202 / 204-207.

Economics and Politics of Patronage:

Abou-El-Haj, Barbara, “The Urban Setting for Late Medieval Church Building: Reims and its Cathedral between 1210-1240” (17-41) in Art History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1988

Abou-El-Haj, Barbara, “Program and Power in the Glass of Reims” (22-33, 226-233) in Radical Art History: Internationale, Anthologie. Zurich: Zurich Inter Publishers, 1997

Abou-El-Haj, Barbara. “Building and Decorating at Reims and Amiens” (763-776) in Herbert Beck, ed. Studien zur Geschichte der europanischen Skulptur im 12./13. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: Liebieghaus: Heinrich, 1994

Henry Kraus. Gold was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, pp. 39-59; Textbook: pp. 232-236.

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download