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
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
1. To provide students with rational and critical knowledge of the culture and artistic production of the ancient world.
2. To know the formal and visual languages of ancient civilizations, as well as the different artistic techniques used in order to better understand how they condition and act on the final result of the work of art.
3. To know specifically the sources, trends, artists and the most important and representative works of the ancient world.
4. To know and handle in a rigorous and adjusted way the specific language and the appropriate terminology that are specific to the different manifestations of ancient art.
5. Know the different approaches and methodologies that allow the understanding of a work of art of the ancient world.
I. THE ORIGINS OF ART. The art of the Paleolithic hunters. The art of the Neolithic farming and herding peoples. Main artistic and cultural manifestations in the Metal Age.
II. ART AND CULTURE OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN AND NEAR EASTERN PEOPLES. Geographical, historical and cultural framework. Periodization. Main characteristics and development of the artistic and cultural manifestations of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Persians; Hittites, Syrians and Phoenicians.
III. ART AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT. Geographical, historical and cultural framework. Periodization. Funerary architecture: mastabas, pyramids and hypogea. Templar architecture. Sculpture, relief and painting as a manifestation of power and religious beliefs.
IV. GREECE. Introduction to the art of classical Greek: sources, approaches and methods. Greek art: times, spaces and contexts. The art of Greece and the art of the first Greeks. The archaic Greek art. The art of the classical period I. The art of the classical period II. Constructions and images of Hellenism.
V. ROME. Roman art: times, spaces and contexts. The art of the Italian peninsula and the Etruscan civilization, the art of Republican Rome. The principality of Augustus and the artistic manifestations of the first imperial Rome. The art of Imperial Rome I. The art of Imperial Rome II.
BASIC I, II Y III:
Franfort, H., Arte y Arquitectura del Oriente Antiguo, Madrid, Cátedra, 1982;
Sanchidrián, J. L., Manual de arte prehistórico, Madrid, Ariel, 2009;
Stevenson Smith, W., Arte y arquitectura del antiguo Egipto, Madrid, Cátedra, 2000.
COMPLEMENTARY I, II Y III:
Aldred, C., Arte egipcio. En el tiempo de los faraones 3100-320 a.c., Barcelona, Destino, 1993;
Alegre Carvajal, E., Aznar Amazán, S. y Gómez López, C., Tipologías arquitectónicas en la Antigüedad, Madrid, UNED, 2002;
Alegre Carbajal, E. y Gómez López, C., Edificios de la arquitectura antigua. Historia de las tipologías arquitectónicas, Madrid, 2007;
Donadoni, S., El arte egipcio, Madrid, Istmo, 2001;
Eggebrecht, A., El antiguo Egipto, Barcelona, 1984;
Giedion, S., El presente eterno: los comienzos de la arquitectura, Madrid, 1981;
Gómez López, C., El arte en el próximo oriente antiguo, Madrid, 2006;
Hrouda, B., El Antiguo Oriente, Barcelona, 1991;
Leroi-Gourhan, A., Prehistoria del Arte occidental, Barcelona, 1968;
Lloyd, S. y Muller, H.W., Arquitectura de los orígenes, Madrid, 1989;
Manniche, L., El arte egipcio, Madrid, Alianza, col. Alianza Forma, 1997;
Mickalowski, K., El Arte del Antiguo Egipto, Madrid, 1991;
Martínez de la Torre, C., Gómez López, C. y Alzaga Ruíz, A., Historia del Arte Antiguo en Egipto y Próximo Oriente, Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces, Madrid, 2009;
Sanmartín, J. y Serrano, J.M., Historia antigua del Próximo Oriente. Mesopotamia y Egipto, Akal, Madrid, 2004;
Saw, I. y Nicholson, P., Dicccionario Akal del Antiguo Egipto, Akal, Madrid, 2004;
Schulz, R. y Seidel, M., Egipto. El mundo de los faraones, Editorial Könemann, 1997;
Ucko, P. y Rosenfield, A., Arte paleolítico, Madrid, 1967;
Vidal, J.; Gil, A.; Prat, J., Reinos e imperios de Próximo Oriente. Historia National Geographic, vol. 5. Barcelona, 2018.
Wiesner, J., El arte egipcio, Bilbao, Moretón 1967;
Ídem, Antiguo Oriente, Bilbao, Moretón,1967;
Woolley, L., Mesopotamia y Asia Anterior, Barcelona, 1963.
BASIC IV Y V
BLANCO FREIJEIRO, A.: Arte griego. CSIC. Madrid, 1986 (6ª ed)
ELVIRA BARBA, M. A., Manual de arte griego, Madrid, 2013.
GARCÍA BELLIDO, A.: Arte romano. Madrid: CSIC, 1972 [Disponible como recurso electrónico en la USC]
RAMÍREZ, J.J. (dir): Historia del arte. Arte antiguo. Alianza. Madrid, 1989.
COMPLEMENTARY IV y V
ANDREAE, B.: Arte romano. Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1974
BLANCO FREIJEIRO, A.: Roma imperial. Historia 16. Madrid, 1986
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. : Arte clásico. Madrid, 1996
ELVIRA BARBA, M.A. y BLANCO FREIJEIRO: Etruria y Roma republicana. Historia 16. Madrid, 1989
HENING, M. (coor): El arte romano, una revisión de las artes visuales del mundo romano. Barcelona, 1985
HÖLSCHER, T.: The Language of images in roman art. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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
ZANKER, P. Augusto y el poder de las imágenes. Madrid, Alianza, 1992
1. To develop the analytical and critical spirit of the student and his sensitivity to see and read a work of art of Antiquity.
2. To use, order and interpret the sources of the history of the art of the cultures of Antiquity.
3. Analyze the aesthetic values of the Ancient World. The work of art, in addition to possessing its own intrinsic value, is an excellent means to understand and appreciate ancient Western culture.
4. Explain the characteristics, functions and basic lines of art in its different manifestations along the historical course as well as the causes of these characteristics, embedding the work of art in the appropriate contexts in which it was developed and connecting it with other forms of cultural expression.
5. Develop methodologies. To be introduced in the execution of bibliographical works, in the elaboration of states of the question of some specific topic of the ancient culture or in the analysis and interpretation of the documentary and literary sources of the moment to globally understand the artistic work.
6. Acquire, know and use other historiographical techniques for the knowledge and valuation of the ancient work of art.
7. To learn in an autonomous way new knowledge about ancient art.
8. To understand the different formal and visual languages, to know the different artistic techniques used in ancient civilizations and to assimilate the fundamentals and basic knowledge of the History of Universal Art.
TEACHING METHODOLOGY:
As it is a degree in the process of being phased out, this subject no longer includes face-to-face teaching. And taking into account that the students who enrol in it must have already been enrolled in a previous course, it is understood that at that time they were able to attend the expository and interactive face-to-face classes.
In any case, it also has a bibliographic recommendation that can guide and help students in reading and learning the most important methodological, thematic and practical aspects.
The teachers of this subject will be available for any questions or clarification that students may need, through their e-mail addresses: marta.cendon [at] usc.es (marta[dot]cendon[at]usc[dot]es); mdolores.barral [at] usc.es (mdolores[dot]barral[at]usc[dot]es); david.chao [at] usc.es (david[dot]chao[at]usc[dot]es). With the possibility of arranging face-to-face or even telephone tutorials.
As this is a subject in extinction, the only evaluation system is an exam on the dates and times indicated for this purpose by the Faculty of Geography and History, which will account for 100% of the grade for the subject.opportunity (July).
This course includes study time and individual work equivalent to 150 hours (6 credits).
Study the syllabus.
Use of tutorials for the resolution of problems and doubts related to the contents of the course.
Knowledge and ability to read other foreign languages, especially English, Italian and French, is recommended.n and French.
David Chao Castro
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812595
- david.chao [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Sara Carreño López
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- sara.carreno [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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