ART & POLITICS IN IMPERIAL ROME ARH 327N MWF 2 3. Dr. Penelope Davies DFA Tel Office hours: M 3-4

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1 ART & POLITICS IN IMPERIAL ROME ARH 327N MWF 2 3 Dr. Penelope Davies DFA Tel Office hours: M 3-4 Course description: This survey of the public art of Rome begins with Augustus accession to power (27 BCE) and ends in the late antique period in the early fourth century CE. Lectures are primarily concerned with state or imperial works of architecture and sculpture in Rome. The works are assessed within their cultural, political and topographical contexts as vehicles for propaganda, commissioned and designed by the powerful elite, often in the interests of confirming legitimacy. Politics and power changed the face of Rome through these monuments, which in turn provided sculptural, architectural and urbanistic models that influenced western cultures for centuries to come. REQUIRED TEXTS: Steven L. Tuck, A History of Roman Art (Wiley Blackwell 2015) Amanda Claridge, Rome. An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford University Press 2010) Penelope J. E. Davies Death and the Emperor (University of Texas Press 2004) Of additional interest: Fred Kleiner, A History of Roman Art (Wadsworth) Diana E. E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (Yale University Press 1992) Frank Sear, Roman Architecture (Cornell 1980) William L. MacDonald, The Architecture of the Roman Empire I. An Introduction (Yale University Press 1982) General information concerning sites in Rome can be found in Larry Richardson Jr s A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press 1992) and in the more comprehensive Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (Quasar ). Both of these works are available in the Classics Library Reference Room. Other useful sources are listed below under specific topics. Articles are available on blackboard. REQUIREMENTS: Reading assignments are indicated in the schedule of topics listed below. You are strongly advised to keep up to date with the readings as the semester progresses, preferably reading your assignments before the lectures. Attendance of lectures is not mandatory; however, you are responsible for all the material discussed in class, and the texts by no means cover all this material. There is a strong discussion component to the classes, which are designed to encourage you to explore your own reactions to and assessments of the works 1

2 of art presented in lectures and the ideas of scholars working in the field. This is also the objective of the essay format of the exams. GRADING: There are three exams, held in class time. No make- up exams will be given. The exams are non- cumulative, and each one counts for 30% of your final grade. An eight- page paper may be substituted for one exam, on a subject to be agreed upon. One class presentation will count for 10% of your final grade. Each of the four requirements must be completed in order to pass the course. Grades will include +/, calculated as follows: B , A , A 94 96, A (and so on). The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at , TTY. 2

3 The following is a tentative schedule of subjects to be covered in class and assigned readings: Aug. 24 Aug. 26 Aug. 29 Aug. 31 Sept. 2 Sept. 5 Sept. 7 Sept. 9 Sept. 12 Sept. 14 Sept. 16 Introduction The Republic Tuck 2 112; Claridge 4 12, and by monument; Kleiner 1 59 The Republic, cont. Augustus: An Ambiguous Victory Tuck ; Kleiner 61 77; Claridge , Augustus: Finding a Face P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor 1988) Labor Day Augustus: The Problem of Succession Kleiner ; Claridge , Davies 13 19, 49 74, Augustus: A Brave New World Claridge , D. Favro, Reading the Augustan City, Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, ed. Peter J. Holliday (Cambridge 1993) Augustus Augustus Review Sept. 19 Exam #1 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 26 The Julio- Claudians: Fickle Followers Tuck ; Kleiner ; Claridge , The Julio- Claudians: Nero: God or Man? Tuck ; Kleiner ; Claridge , Edward Champlin, Nero (Harvard 2003) Emperors and the Flavians: Unrest and Stability 3

4 Tuck ; Kleiner , Claridge Sept. 28 Sept. 30 Oct. 3 Oct. 5 Oct. 7 Oct. 10 Oct. 12 Oct. 14 Oct. 17 Oct. 19 Oct. 21 Oct. 24 The Flavians: Under your direction, O Caesar, those delights now belong to the people... Tuck ; Claridge , , , , ; Davies 19-27, Kathleen M. Coleman, Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments, Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990) Trajan: Princeps Optimus Tuck ; Kleiner ; Claridge , Trajan: The Column Davies 27-34, ; Claridge A. Claridge, Hadrian s Column of Trajan, Journal of Roman Archaeology 6 (1993) 5-22 Trajan, cont. Provinces (Dr. Muntasser) Provinces (Dr. Muntasser) Provinces (Dr. Muntasser) Palace architecture (Dr. Thomas) Tuck 14 15, , , Palace architecture (Dr. Thomas) Palace architecture (Dr. Thomas) The Pantheon Kleiner ; Claridge ; Davies 34-40, , Paul Davies, D. Hemsoll and M. Wilson Jones, The Pantheon: Triumph of Rome or Triumph of Compromise? Art History 10.2 (1987) William C. Loerke, "ʺA rereading of the interior elevation of Hadrian'ʹs Rotunda,"ʺ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 49 (1990) L. M. Hetland, Dating the Pantheon, Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007) The Pantheon 4

5 Oct. 26 Oct. 28 Hadrian: The Little Greekling Kleiner , ; Claridge , Review Oct. 31 Exam #2 Nov. 2 Nov. 4 Nov. 7 Nov. 9 Nov. 11 Nov. 14 Nov. 16 Nov. 18 Nov. 21 Antonines: The Pius Tuck ; Kleiner , ; Claridge , ; Davies 40-42, , Antonines: Dividing Rule Kleiner ; Claridge ; Davies 42-48, Severans: Dynasty and Damnation Tuck ; Kleiner Severans: Dynasty and Damnation Severans: Baths and Bathing Kleiner ; Claridge , Fikret Yegül, Bathing in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press 2010) Third century: A Soldier s Empire Tuck ; Kleiner ; Claridge Tetrarchs: From Principate to Dominate Kleiner ; Claridge , , H.P. L Orange, Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire (Princeton 1965) 3-18 M. Cullhed, Conservator Urbis Suae. Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of the Emperor Maxentius (Stockholm 1994) Constantine: Monarchy Revised Tuck ; Kleiner ; Claridge N. Spivey, Stumbling Towards Byzantium: The Decline and Fall of Late Antique Sculpture, Apollo 20 (1995) P. Peirce, The Arch of Constantine: Propaganda and Ideology in Late Roman Art, Art History 12 (1989) D. Kinney, Rape or Restitution of the Past? Interpreting Spolia, The Art of Interpreting, ed. S. C. Scott (University Park, Penn. 1995) Constantine, cont. 5

6 Nov. 23 Nov. 25 Nov. 28 Nov. 30 Dec. 2 Thanksgiving break Thanksgiving break Presentations Presentations Review Dec. 5 Exam #3 6