Universität Wien

090090 VO StEOP: Sculpture in Late Antiquity-Typology, Style, Chronology (2018W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
STEOP

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 08.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 15.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 22.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 29.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 05.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 19.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 26.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 03.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 10.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG
  • Monday 14.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Klassische Archäologie Franz-Klein-Gasse 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The lectures intend to address the development of late Antique sculpture with attention to typology, Style and Chronology. The discussion will consider the political, idiological and social function of Late Antique statuaria and how statues were incorporated within the Urban landscape. Attention will be also devoted to the reception of pagan statues after the introduction of Christianity and how and to which extent the impact of classicism has conditioned the development of specific Christian imagery.

Assessment and permitted materials

written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

written exam at the end of the semester

Examination topics

lecture notes, selected readings, power points

Reading list

1. R. Grigg, “Byzantine Credulity as an Impediment to Antiquarianism,” Gesta26 no. 1 (1987), 3–9.
2. A. Grabar, Sculptures byzantines de Constantinople (IVe-Xe siècles) (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1963.
3. T. M. Kristensen, “Embodied Images: Christian Response and Destruction in Late Antique Egypt,” Journal of Late Antiquity 2 no. 2 (2009), 224–250.
4. ibid., “Religious Conflict in Late Antique Alexandria: Christian Responses to “Pagan” Statues in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE,” in Alexandria: A Cultural and Religious Melting Pot, eds. George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2009), 158–175;
5. N. Hannestad, “How did rising Christianity cope with Pagan Sculpture?” East and West: Modes of Communication. Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida, eds. Evangelos Chrysos and Ian Wood (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 173–204.
6. N. Hannestad, Tradition in Late Antique Sculpture: Conservation, Modernization, Production (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1994).
7. J. İnan and E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Roman and Early Byzantine Portrait Sculpture in Asia Minor (London: Oxford University Press, 1966).
8. L. James, “Pray Not to Fall into Temptation and Be on Your Guard’, Pagan Statues in Christian Constantinople,” Gesta 1, no. 35 (1996), 12–20.
9. B. Kiilerich, Late Fourth Century Classicism in the Plastic Arts, Studies in the So-called Theodosian Renaissance (Odense: Odense University Press, 1993).
10. ibid., “Sculpture in the Round in the Early Byzantine Period. Constantinople and the East,” in Aspects of Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium. Papers Read at a Colloquium Held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul 31 May–5 June 1992, eds. Lennart Ryden and Jan Olof Rosenqvist (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993), 85–97.
11. C. Mango, “Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 17 (1963), 55–75
12. H. Sarandi-Mendelovici, “Christian Attitudes toward Pagan Monuments in Late Antiquity and Their Legacy in Later Byzantine Centuries,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44 (1990), 47–61.
13. L. Salah Nasrallah, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second Century Church Amid the Spaces of the Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
14. P. Stewart, “The Destruction of Statues in Late Antiquity,” in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity, ed. R. Miles (London, 1999), 159–189;
15. ibid., “Continuity and Tradition in Late Antique Perceptions of Portrait Statuary,” in Statuen in der Spätantike, eds. Franz Alto Bauer and Christian Witschel (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2007), 27–43;

Association in the course directory

Anrechenbar für: StEOP Methoden, im BA: frühchristliche Arch.
im BA: PM Methoden, WM früh, APM früh, gr. u. kl. Vertiefung;
im MA: nicht anrechenbar!
im EC-Vertiefung;

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