History of ancient art 2800-DWHIS-OG

The lectures concern the history of ancient art in Greece and Rome from Bronze Age (Aegean culture) till late antiquity. There are discussed the most important artistic phenomena in relation to development of Greek sculpture, its influence on Roman reality, on the originating of esthetic patterns and classicisms. Also the transformations in architecture and its decoration are emphasized, considered in the context of the topography of ancient cities and determined by the institutional evolution of the Greek “polis” and Roman “civitas”. Public buildings, first of all temples and theaters are analyzed from social and historical point of view, whereas private houses are seen through the structure and duties of the family, the self-presentation and the social status of inhabitants, which were decisive not only on the private architecture shapes but also on its sculptural, painting and mosaic decoration. Such formulated problems require an analysis of archeological, iconographic sources, but important are also the remarks of ancient authors (Pausanias, Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius and others).
1. Classical antiquity in the history of art
2. Continuity and change in Aegean civilization
3. Beginning of ancient Greek art – „miracle” o slow evolution
4. Anthropomorphic deities and their dwellings – temples
5. „Archaic smile” in Greek sculpture
6. Greek ceramics and vase painting
7. Doric temples in Sicily VI-V cent. B.C.
8. Olympia and Delphi
9. Greek athletes in sculpture V-IV cent. B.C.
10. Akropolis of Athens – Fidias and Kallimachos
11. Images of Aphrodite and a problem of female nude
12. Greek funerary art
13. Pergamon – symbol of Hellenistic period
14. Pompeii and the topography of Greek cities
15. Greek wall- and easel-painting
16. Roman art - problems with definition
17. Rome – Etruscan city
18. Roman temples of republican period
19. Greek and Roman theatre by Vitruvius – evolution of shape and function
20. Roman portrait and funerary art
21. Augustus and power of images
22. Roman honorific arches
23. Pompeian houses and its decoration
24. Imperial picture and "religion of loyalty"
25. Trajanus and Marc Aurelius Columns in Rome
26. Roman villa
27. Decoration of Roman sarcophagi
28. Ideal of Later Roman emperor
29. When the Roman art became Christian
30. Cyrenaica – instead of summary