VENETIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY – 2 VENETIAN HERITAGE IN THE ADRIATIC AND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

The course is addressed to students coming from all study areas.The course is designed for international students and therefore represents an opportunity for native Italian students to experience 'internationalisation at home'.

Thanks to the combination of different teaching and learning techniques (frontal lectures; group discussion; guided tours) students will learn:
- to describe and compare works of Architecture, Painting and Sculpture and archaeological sites;
- to set them in their historical context and within the development of the History of European Art and Archaeology.

The course is conceived to introduce Venetian art to students who do not necessarily have a background in any field of Humanities, including Art. Students enrolled on a degree course in Classics, Arts or Humanities, especially MA students, are kindly asked to get in touch with the instructor.

The course aims to illustrate, through selected case studies, the Venetian Heritage still conserved in the territories that belonged to the Stato da Mar. This extensive domain included the coasts of present-day Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, parts of Greece and Turkey, the islands of Cyprus and Crete. In many of these places the traces of the Venetian presence are still visible and in some cases these are prominent, such as the walls of Nicosia in Cyprus. During the course, therefore, we will explore significant but perhaps still lesser known aspects of the history of Venice, focusing on the influence of the Venetian archaeological, artistic and architectural civilisation in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean sea.

Schedule

27th February 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 1: The Origins of Venice

1st March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 2: Venice: Saint Mark and Alexandria (Egypt)

6th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 3: Constantinople (Istanbul) in Venice

8th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Venetians in Constantinople (Istanbul)

13th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Islamic Archaeology in Córdoba: topography and society in the creation of the Umayyad capital - GUEST: Carmen González Gutiérrez (University of Córdoba)

15th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 6: Communities of “foreigners” in Venice: a cross-cultural perspective

20th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 7: Venetian walls and perceptions of heritage in Nicosia, Cyprus

22th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 8: Famagusta and Kyrenia (Cyprus)

27th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 9: Crete (Greece)

29th March 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 10: Corfu and the Ionian Islands (Greece)

3rd April 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 11: TRIP to the Archaeological Museum of Venice

5th April 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 12: Athens (Greece) and Collections of Ancient Greek Art in Venice

12th April 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 13: Albania and Montenegro

17th April 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 14: Istria (Croatia)

19th April 2023, 2:00-3:30 PM
Lecture 15: Dalmatia (Croatia), Koper and Piran (Slovenia)

BOOK
(COMPULSORY) G. Scarabello, G. Ortalli, A Short History of Venice, 2004, pp. 7-23; 43-47; 57-67; 73-76; 83-87.
(OPTIONAL) G. Vale, REPUBLIC OF VENICE. An unusual journey through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Cyprus, Zagreb 2021, pp. 164-314.

LIST OF ARTICLES

ARCHAEOLOGY (ORIGINS OF VENICE)
Albert J. Ammerman, Venice before the Grand Canal, “Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome”, 48.2003(2004), pp. 141-156 [Ammerman 2003]

13TH-14TH CENTURY
Armin F. Bergmeier, The production of ex novo spolia and the creation of history in thirteenth century Venice, “Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz”, 62. Bd., H. 2/3 (2020), pp. 127-157 [Bergmeier 2020]
Peter Jackson, Marco Polo and His 'Travels', “Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London”, 1998, Vol. 61, No. 1 (1998), pp. 82-101 [Jackson 1998]
Maria Georgopoulou, Late Medieval Crete and Venice: An Appropriation of Byzantine Heritage, “The Art Bulletin”, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 479-49 [Georgopoulou 1995]

15TH-17TH CENTURY
Nikolas Bakirtzis, Fortifications as urban heritage. The case of Nicosia in Cyprus and a glance at the city of Rhodes, “Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome”, Vol. 62, Special Issue: National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean (2017), pp. 171-192 [Bakirtzis 2017]
A. Drandaki, Piety, Politics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Venetian Crete, “Dumbarton Oaks Papers”, Vol. 71 (2017), pp. 367-406 [Drandaki 2017]
Colin Eisler and Caroline Kelly, Fra Antonio Falier da Negroponte's "Madonna" and the First Venetian Imperial Style, “Artibus et Historiae”, 2016, Vol. 37, No. 73 (2016), pp. 71-89 [Eisler and Kelly 2016]
Siriol Davies and Jack L. Davis, Greeks, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire, in Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece, “Hesperia Supplements”, 2007, Vol. 40, pp. 25-31 [Davies and Davis 2007]
Maximilian Hartmuth, Mosque-building on the Ottoman-Venetian frontier, circa 1550-1650, “Muqarnas”, 2018, Vol. 35 (2018), pp. 175-192 [Hartmuth 2018]
Marilyn E. Heldman, Post-Byzantine Icons in Early-Sixteenth-Century Ethiopia, “Gesta”, 2005, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2005), pp. 125-148 [Heldman 2005]
David R. Hernandez, The Abandonment of Butrint: From Venetian Enclave to Ottoman Backwater, “Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens”, April-June 2019, Vol. 88, No. 2 (April-June 2019), pp. 365-419 [Hernandez 2019]
Kate Lowe, Visible Lives: Black Gondoliers and Other Black Africans in Renaissance Venice, “Renaissance Quarterly”, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 412-452 [Lowe 2013]
Chryssa A. Maltezou, Byzantine "consuetudines" in Venetian Crete, “Dumbarton Oaks Papers”, 1995, Vol. 49, Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries (1995), pp. 269-280 [Maltezou 1995]

19TH CENTURY
Rachel Ainsworth, The Circulation of Memory: Bahaettin Rahmi Bediz's Postcards of Crete 1897–1909, “Mediterranean Studies”, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2018), pp. 26-53 [Ainsworth 2018]
20th CENTURY
Fan Shen, Shakespeare in China: The Merchant of Venice, “Asian Theatre Journal”, Spring, 1988, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 23-37 [Fan Shen 1988]

CLIMATE CHANGE
Fabio Trincardi et alii, The 1966 Flooding of Venice: WHAT TIME TAUGHT US FOR THE FUTURE, “Oceanography”, Vol. 29, No. 4, Special Issue on Ocean-Ice Interaction (DECEMBER 2016), pp. 178-186 [Trincardi et alii 2016]

Final written test. Individual presentation of topics previously discussed with the lecturer are welcome.

Frontal lectures, one guided tour.

The distinctive feature of the course is the international composition of the class, generally including a variety of provenances both in geography and education. For this reason too, attendance to classes is highly recommended. Please note that students who cannot attend classes are required to prepare some additional readings to be agreed with the instructor. The final written test will include questions from each selected reading.

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development