Unit ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF BYZANTINE ART
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A000125
- Curriculum
- Archeologia
- Teachers
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- Donatella Scortecci (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 42 ore (Codocenza) - Donatella Scortecci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/08
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course deepens the archaeological, architectural and historical
artistic issues of Byzantine culture, East and West, between the 5th and
11th centuries, with particular attention to the capitals of the Empire
(Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch , Jerusalem, Thessalonica, Nicaea)
and defensive settlements. Part of the course will be devoted to specific
technical and mosaic productions, with references to the school of
Madaba. - Reference texts
- MANUALE:
E.Zanini, Introduzione all'archeologia Bizantina, Roma, Carocci, 2014
Tin-depth studies on the themes will be available to
ONLINE students on the e-learning platform
(www.unistudium - Educational objectives
- The course aims to achieve basic knowledge
of the discipline updated to the most current research trends
in both archeology and history of Byzantine art. The student
he will have to demonstrate that he has acquired the skills to elaborate
autonomously and with a developed critical and speculative sense
definition of a "cultural asset", specifically relating to the issues
of the course, according to the institutional criteria: from the concepts of integrity e
authenticity referring to the levels of conservation and truthfulness
information, descriptive capacity, analysis of the elements
constitutive, comparison between homogeneous, synchronic,
diachronic, cultural contribution. - Prerequisites
- It is essential that the student has acquired methodological skills and a
solid foundation in the knowledge of historical and archaeological
disciplines of classical and medieval historian, with particular regard to
late Antiquity and the early middle ages. - Teaching methods
- Subject to teaching changes in presence
- Other information
- Attending students will have the possibility of individual programs agreed
with the teacher - Learning verification modality
- The assessment provides a test whose objective is to make the learning
of fundamental issues of discipline and the ability to establish
comparisons, criteria diacronici and surveying
instruments.The student will demonstrate that it can process the matter
through a rigorous scientific methodology, which takes account of the
proper use of documentary sources and materials.The test consists of an
oral interview and the presentation of individual seminars by the students
on the course topics. The timing see a first stage of verification issues
and a second job verification indiviale. The duration is not more than 30
minutes, 15/20 reserved general verification and ten to the report of the
seminar.The type of test is represented by a stimulus with a reply. The
final measurement examination test gives two-thirds of the General test
score and a third working seminar.
For information on support services for students with disabilities: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The course explores the main archaeological themes,
architectural and historical-artistic of Byzantine, Oriental and
western, between the fifth and eleventh centuries, with particular attention to the capitals
of the Empire (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem,
Thessalonica, Ravenna, Nicaea) and to the defensive settlements. A part of the
course will be dedicated to the technique and mosaic productions, with specific
references to the Madaba school