VENETIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY – 2 VENETIAN HERITAGE IN THE ADRIATIC AND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

The course is designed for international students from any subject and is therefore an opportunity for native Italian speakers to experience internationalisation at home.
N.B. This class is organised by the Ca' Foscari School for International Education (SIE). Students cannot attend classes or take exams if they are not officially enrolled in the course. For further information on the SIE English-taught courses for exchange students, please visit this webpage: https://www.unive.it/pag/35228/

Thanks to the combination of different teaching and learning techniques (frontal lectures; group discussion; guided tours) students will learn:
- to describe and compare archaeological sites and works of Architecture, Painting and Sculptures;
- to set them in their historical context and within the development of the History of European Art and Archaeology.

The course is conceived to introduce Venetian art and archaeology to students who do not necessarily have a background in any field of Humanities, including Art. Students enrolled on a degree course in Classics, Arts or Humanities, especially MA students, are kindly asked to get in touch with the instructor.

The course aims to illustrate, through selected case studies, the Venetian Heritage still conserved in the territories that belonged to the Stato da Mar. This extensive domain included the coasts of present-day Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, parts of Greece and Turkey, the islands of Cyprus and Crete. In many of these places the traces of the Venetian presence are still visible and in some cases these are prominent, such as the walls of Nicosia in Cyprus. During the course, therefore, we will explore significant but perhaps still lesser known aspects of the history of Venice, focusing on the influence of the Venetian archaeological, artistic and architectural civilisation in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean sea.

Teaching materials are available on Moodle.

BOOKS

(COMPULSORY) G. Scarabello, G. Ortalli, A Short History of Venice, 2004, pp. 7-23; 43-47; 57-67; 73-76; 83-87.
(OPTIONAL) G. Vale, REPUBLIC OF VENICE. An unusual journey through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Cyprus, Zagreb 2021, pp. 164-314.

LIST OF ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

B. Arbel, Venice’s Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period, in E. Dursteler (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Venetian History, Cambridge 2013, pp. 125-253

N. Bakirtzis, Fortifications as urban heritage. The case of Nicosia in Cyprus and a glance at the city of Rhodes, “Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome”, Vol. 62, Special Issue: National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean (2017), pp. 171-192

C. Carpinato, Crete in Venice. The Presence of the Great Island in Venetian Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, and Literature, in L. Giannakopoulou, E. K. Skordyles (eds.), Culture and society in Crete: from Kornaros to Kazantzakis, 2017, pp. 217-240

K. Lowe, Visible Lives: Black Gondoliers and Other Black Africans in Renaissance Venice, “Renaissance Quarterly”, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 412-452

G. Necipoğlu, Visual Cosmopolitanism and Creative Translation: Artistic Conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II’s Constantinople, “Muqarnas”, vol. 29, 2012, pp. 1-81.

A. Ong, What Marco Polo Forgot’: Contemporary Chinese Art Reconfigures the Global, “Current Anthropology”, vol. 53, no. 4, 2012, pp. 471–94.

B. Ravid, Venice and its Minorities, in E. Dursteler (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Venetian History, Cambridge 2013, pp. 125-253

F. Shen, Shakespeare in China: The Merchant of Venice, “Asian Theatre Journal”, Spring, 1988, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 23-37 [Fan Shen 1988]

Final written test. Individual presentation of topics previously discussed with the lecturer are welcome.

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Attendance is not compulsory, though it is encouraged. The minimum score to pass the test is 18/30.

Frontal lectures, one/more guided tour.

The distinctive feature of the course is the international composition of the class, generally including a variety of provenances both in geography and education. For this reason too, attendance to classes is highly recommended. Please note that students who cannot attend classes are required to prepare some additional readings to be discussed with the instructor.

Questo insegnamento tratta argomenti connessi alla macroarea "Capitale umano, salute, educazione" e concorre alla realizzazione dei relativi obiettivi ONU dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile