THE IMAGERY AND ARCHITECTURE OF MEDIEVAL ROME



THE IMAGERY AND ARCHITECTURE OF MEDIEVAL ROME

(312-1308)

The goal of the course is to enable students to identify, discuss, and interpret works of art and architecture. Students should demonstrate their knowledge of a large set of visual artifacts from a diverse range of periods and be able to place them within their historical contexts. They should be able to employ skills of critical thinking in their written and oral expression and be able to construct an historical argument that incorporates images in a meaningful way. Majors and minors should be able to recognize and understand the fundamental interpretive methods engaged by art historians and should employ the appropriate technologies for conducting research in the history of art, including print and electronic resources.

Spring Semester 2018, Art History 379

Erik Thunø, Professor and Chair

thuno@rci.rutgers.edu

Week 1                                 INTRODUCTION TO COURSE          

ROME “HEAD OF THE WORLD”

Look under “Rome” in Grove’s Dictionary of Art on-line and read about its early history and urbanism

Week 2 ROME, S. PETER AND CHRISTIANITY

James Lees-Milne, St. Peter’s. The Story of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (London, 1967), 13-35.

Geoffrey Barraclough, The Medieval Papacy (London, 1968, repr. 1992), 9-19

THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN IMAGERY

Jaś Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph (Oxford, 1998), 199-220

Robin Margaret Jensen, Understanding Early Christian Art (London and New York, 2000), 32-63

Week 3                                 ROME AND CONSTANTINE. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN BASILICAS

Richard Krautheimer, Profile of a City (Princeton, 1980), 3-31

Torgil Magnuson, The Urban Transformation of Medieval Rome, 312-1420 (Stockholm, 2004), 51-67

Week 4          THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF ROME AND THE ROMANIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY. CHRISTIAN IMAGERY AS PUBLIC AND DOGMATIC I

                                                Krautheimer, 33-58

Week 5           THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF ROME AND THE ROMANIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY. CHRISTIAN IMAGERY AS PUBLIC AND DOGMATIC II

QUIZ

Thomas Matthews, The Clash of Gods. A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton, 1993), 23-53, 92-114

Herbert L. Kessler, “Pictures as Scripture in Fifth-Century Churches,” repr. in idem, Old St. Peter’s and Church Decoration in Medieval Italy (Spoleto, 2002), 15-45

Week 6          ROME UNDER GREGORY THE GREAT (590-604) AND BYZANTINE RULE. NEW INFLUENCES                                    

Krautheimer, 59-108

The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis), translated with an introduction by Raymond Davis (Liverpool, 1989), 62-63 (Boniface IV), 88-89 (John VII)

                                MID-TERM EXAM (slides and essay)

Week 7 ROME AND ITS ICONS AND MARTYRS

Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence. A History of the Image before the Era of Art (Chicago, 1994), 63-73

Hans Belting, “Icons and Roman Society in the Twelfth Century,” in Italian Church Decoration of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (Bologna, 1989), 37-43

Week 8 ROME IN THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD I

Krautheimer, 109-14

SPRING BREAK

Week 9 ROME IN THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD II

Thomas F. X. Noble, “Topography, Celebration and Power: The Making of Papal Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries,” in Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages, ed. M. de Jong (Leiden, 2001), 45-91

Week 10 THE TWELFTH CENTURY I

                                                Krautheimer, 161-202

Week 11                THE TWELFTH CENTURY II

Dale Kinney, “Rome in the Twelfth Century: Urbs fracta and Renovatio,” Gesta 45/2 (2006): 199-221

Ernst Kitzinger, “A Virgin’s Face: Antiquarianism in Twelfth-Century Art,” Art Bulletin 62 (1980): 6-19

The Marvels of Rome. Mirabilia Urbis Romae, edited and translated by Francis Morgan Nichols (New York, 1986). Read preface and flip through rest of the book.

Week 12 THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY I

                                                Krautheimer, 203-228

6 PAGE RESEARCH PAPER DUE

Week 13                    THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY II

QUIZ

William Tronzo, “Apse Decoration, the Liturgy and the Perception of Art in Medieval Rome: S. Maria in Trastevere and S. Maria Maggiore,” Italian Church Decoration of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (Bologna, 1989), 167-195

Herbert L. Kessler and Johanna Zacharias, Rome 1300. On the Path of the Pilgrim (New Haven, 2000), 38-63

Anita Moskowitz, Italian Gothic Sculpture, c. 1250- c. 1400 (Cambridge, 2001), 50-63

Week 14         THE JUBILEE YEAR 1300 AND PILGRIMAGE

                                                Magnuson, 73-81, 121-124

                                                Kessler and Zacharias, 1-3

Debra Birch, Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages. Continuity and Change (New York, 1998)

LIVING IN ROME IN THE MIDDLE AGES. HOUSES, TOWERS AND MANSIONS

Krautheimer, 289-310

                                                Magnuson, 91-93, 101-112

   

All assigned readings are available through SAKAI

FURTHER READINGS

Paul Hetherington, Medieval Rome. A Portrait of the City and its Life (New York, 1994)

Matilda Webb, The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome (Sussex, 2001)

Peter Llewellyn, Rome in the Dark Ages (London, 1971)

Geoffrey Barraclough, The Medieval Papacy (London, 1968)

Roma felix : formation and reflections of medieval Rome, eds. Éamonn Ó Carragáin and Carol Neuman de Vegvar (Aldershot, 2007)

Rome across time and space: cultural transmission and the exchange of ideas c. 500-1400, eds. Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick, and John Osborne (Cambridge, 2011)

RESEARCH PAPER

Choose one of the works listed below. Begin the paper by introducing the work (name, place, date, etc). Proceed with a short description of the work in which you include both style and subject matter. Then ask yourself about the significance of this work of art in its historical and artistic contexts. Comparisons to related works of art are necessary as well as a consideration of the most recent literature on the subject (1-3 titles). Include notes and bibliography (6 double-spaced pages all included).

PAPER TOPICS

1. The Basilica of Old St. Peter’s (architecture)

2. Icon of the Madonna from S. Sisto (imagery)

3. Mosaics of S. Zeno Chapel, S. Prassede (imagery)

4. Church of S. Stefano Rotondo (architecture)

5. Fresco of The Miracle of the Child from Cherson in lower church of S. Clemente (imagery)

6. Tomb of Pope Boniface VIII, S. Peter’s (sculpture)

FINAL EXAM DATE XX

COURSE EVALUATION

Class participation and attendance=15%

Mid term exam=25%

Research paper=25%

Final exam=35%

OTHER ISSUES

Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. If you are not present when I take attendance, you will be marked absent. Do not expect to be marked present if you come in late. You will be marked down one half of a grade for every class you miss after two missed classes.

Late papers and missed examinations: Late papers will be marked down one half of grade for each calendar day the paper is late. No extensions will be given except in cases of illness (with note from a doctor) or family emergencies.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the act of using another person’s published ideas, data or language without specific and proper acknowledgement. Plagiarism is a violation of academic integrity and will be dealt with in accordance with university policy.

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