C495/23988 This course meets with C875 and FINA-A410 Monday and
Wednesday from 2:30-3:45PM.

ANCIENT PAINTING: CAVES TO CHRISTIANS 		
EW Leach
II Semester 2006					

Beginning with early paintings of the stone age, this class will
survey highpoints in the history of ancient European painting in
connection with their physical and social contexts. Literary
evidence, when available will be evaluated both as an informational
source, and for insights into the responses to painting from its
contemporary audience. Attention will be given to Minoan/Mycenean
palace painting; Hellenistic paintings in Macedonia; Etruscan and
Lucanian tomb painting; Greek vases from Athens to Southern Italy and
the public buildings and houses of the Roman world; Fayum portraits
in Egypt; Vergilian codex illustration and Roman catacombs.

Undergraduate expectations:
1 Class report on an article
2 papers
1 Final Exam
Graduate students will also write a research paper on a topic of
choice and present the material in a class report.


BOOKS:

Required (all at FOA Bookshop):
J.J. Pollitt, The Art of Greece 1400-31 B.C. Sources and Documents
Nigel Spivey, Etruscan Art Thames and Hudson, 1997
Tom Rasmussen and Nigel Spivey, ed. Looking at Greek Vases, Cambridge
1991
Course pack available at Friends of Fines Arts Bookshop.