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.
- Keynote lessons on the theoretical contents of the subject.
- Interactive sessions in which the activities will be practical and related to the theoretical contents of the subject . Reading texts and practical application of the iconographic method through analysis and interpretation of images is required.
The practical sessions may include a field trip to explore and analyze complex iconographic programs .
-Personal tutoring.
The assessment will consist of three parts: written test (examination), class participation
seminars and work practices and personal, which will include a classroom presentation.
The written test will account for 50% of the final grade.
Practical classes, participation in seminars and completion of the work will account for 30% of the final grade.
Attendance at lectures and practices is mandatory and will account for 20% of the final grade. Failing to attend more than the 20% of the lectures and practices will result in the impossibility of being evaluated in the first opportunity in may-june.
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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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | D14 |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | D07 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C06 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | B10 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | B10 |