ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History of Art
Areas: History of Art
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Familiarizing students with the nature and meaning of art forms of Classical Antiquity, focusing, first, on the art produced by the Hellenic civilization from its origins and in their specific contexts, and, then, on artistic facts linked to Roman reality, viewed from its special position in the Italian peninsula and its imperial expansion.
- Introducing students to the specific realities of the Greek and Roman artistic productions, with special emphasis on the unique creations and its terminology and definition.
- Providing students with the knowledge and tools to establish relationships between different Greek and Roman cultural facts, artistic and visual, and also textual and literary.
0. Introduction to the art of Classical Antiquity: sources, approaches and methods.
1. Greek art: time, space and contexts.
2. The art of Greece and early Greek art.
3. Archaic Greek art.
4. The art of the Classical moment I.
5. The art of the Classical moment II.
6. Constructions and images of Hellenistic art.
7. Roman art: time, space and context.
8. The Art of the Italian peninsula and the Etruscan civilization.
9. The art of republican Rome
10. The principate of Augustus and the artistic expressions of the first imperial Rome.
11. The art of imperial Rome I.
12. The art of Imperial Rome II.
GENERAL HANDBOOKS:
ELVIRA BARBA, M.A. : Arte clásico. Madrid, 1996.
RAMÍREZ, J.J. (dir): Historia del arte. Arte antiguo. Alianza Editorial. Madrid, 1989.
GREEK ART:
BLANCO FREIJEIRO, A.: Arte griego. CSIC. Madrid, 1986 (6ª ed)
BOARDMAN, J.: El arte griego. Ed. Destino. Barcelona, 1991.
CARPENTER, T., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. A Handbook, Londres, 1991. (Edición española: Carpenter, T., Arte y Mito en la Grecia antigua, Destino, Madrid, 2001).
ELVIRA BARBA, M. A., Manual de arte griego. Obras y artistas de la Antigua Grecia, Madrid, 2013.
HURWIT, J., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480. BC., Ítaca y Londres, 1987.
ONIANS, J., Arte y pensamiento en la época helenística, Alianza, Madrid, 1996.
OSBORNE, R Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford, 1998.
POLLITT, J.J., Arte y experiencia en la Grecia clásica, Bilbao, 1984.
RICHTER, G.M,A., El arte griego, Madrid, 1984.
ROBERTSON, M., El arte griego, Madrid, 1985.
ROMAN ART:
ANDREAE, B.: Arte romano. Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1974.
BIANCHI BANDINELLI: Roma centro del poder. El arte romano desde los orígenes hasta el final del S.II. Ed. Aguilar. Universo de las Formas. Madrid, 1970.
BIANCHI BANDINELLI: Roma, el fin del mundo antiguo. Aguilar, Universo de las Formas. Madrid, 1970.
BLANCO FREIJEIRO, A.: Roma imperial. Historia 16. Madrid, 1986.
ELVIRA BARBA, M.A. y BLANCO FREIJEIRO: Etruria y Roma republicana. Historia 16. Madrid, 1989.
GARCÍA BELLIDO, A.: El arte romano. CSIC. Enciclopedia clásica, 1. Madrid, 1971.
HENING, M. (coor): El arte romano, una revisión de las artes visuales del mundo romano. Barcelona, 1985.
TORELLI, M. y BIANCHI BANDINELLI, R.: El arte de la Antigüedad clásica: Etruria/Roma. Akal. Madrid, 2000
ZANKER, P., Roman Art, P. Getty Museum, 2008
Students will be able to:
- Recognize the specific characteristics of the artistic production of the ancient Greek and Roman world.
- Establish connections between historical, social and literary events and artistic phenomena.
- Review and comment images and texts of Classical antiquity.
- Present, orally and in writing, contents in relation to the art of Classical antiquity, using properly the specific vocabulary of the discipline.
1) Expository classes in which theoretical content will be explained.
2) The interactive classes will consist of a series of seminars on various aspects of Greek and Roman art, for which it will be necessary to do prior readings and participate actively, developing tasks to identify objects and images. A presentation on a sculpture piece assigned by the professor will be required.
The contents of the seminars will be as follows:
Concepts and names: about the terminology of ancient art
Introduction to Greek pottery: chronology, techniques, forms, and functions
Reading the Greek image: myth and image
Sculpture seminar: exhibitions
Augustus and the power of images: reading seminar
Reading the Roman image: Ovid and the image of myth in Rome
3) On the other hand, the student must prepare a paper applying the reading of the mythological image from an iconographic point of view and with the aid of Greek and Roman literary sources. Specifically, the paper will consist of analyzing, comparing, and arguing the representation of a mythological story in a painted Greek vase and a Roman sarcophagus.
The evaluation will be carried out through a written test and the assessment of participation in practical classes and seminars, as well as a personal project that will include a presentation.
Attendance at theoretical classes, which is mandatory, and participation in practical classes and seminars will account for 10% of the final grade.
The completion of the presentation on the sculpture piece will account for 20% of the final grade.
The completion of the non-presential work will account for 30% of the final grade.
The written test will account for 40% of the final grade.
Attendance is mandatory, so a repeated absence exceeding 20% will result in the inability for the student to be evaluated in the first opportunity.
The student that has not completed the Interactive Teaching should pass the Theoretical Exam and complete the whole Interactive Teaching Dossier.
Following the Instruction Nº 1/2017 of Secretaría Xeral, students who are exempt from attendance in certain situations will be evaluated with a specific final exam (100%). Exemption from attendance must be authorized in advance by the university.
TIME PRESENCIAL OF THE STUDENT: 47 hours.
Expositive Session: 32 hours.
Interactive Session: 16 hours.
Personal Tutorship: 3 hours.
TIME OF STUDY And PERSONAL ACTIVITY: 99 hours.
Individual autonomous study or in group: 56 hours.
Readings recommended, activities of library and similar: 28 hours.
Preparation of oral presentations, debates and similar: 8 hours.
Other tasks proposed by the professors: 7 hours.
Attendance at lectures and practices, besides mandatory, is essential for the complete understanding and following up of the subject.
All the reading, teaching and complementary materials will be available for the students at the USC Virtual Campus.
Reading knowledge of other Modern Languages, apart from Spanish and Galician, is highly recomended.
The use of laptops and mobile phones is not permitted during the lectures.
Maria De Fatima Diez Platas
Coordinador/a- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812546
- fatima.diez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | D04 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | D03 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | D15-Seminar |
| 01.09.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D05 |
| 01.09.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D05 |
| 06.04.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D05 |
| 06.04.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D05 |