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Teacher
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DI COLA VALERIA
(syllabus)
Course title:
DRAWING IN ARCHAEOLOGY: METHODS, TOOLS AND CONTEXTS
Syllabus
Week 1. The archaeological drawing from the site to the pottery fragment. Origin and evolution of the method and the style of making graphic documentation.
1.1. Short story of the graphic representation in the archaeological world: 18th and 19th century.
1.2. Short story of the graphic representation in the archaeological world: 20th and 21st century.
1.3. Categories to be represented: places and architectures
1.4. Categories to be represented: artifact and individuals
Week 2. Documenting the archaeological evidence: when, how and why
2.1. Typology of the evidence to be represented
2.2. Styles in graphic representation: schematic, naturalistic, virtual
2.3. Products from archaeological documentation
2.4. Stratiphying the graphic information
Week 3. Instrumental Survey: an overview and new technologies
3.1. Theory, technical principles, scientific goals
3.2. Tools for instrumental survey: data processing and graphic solutions
3.3. Basic procedures and the on-field archaeologist’s survey kit
3.4. Survey in concrete: some examples and comments about published graphic works
Week 4. Traditional Archaeological Drawing: the on-field practice
4.1. Theory, technical principles, scientific goals
4.2. Tools for drawing: data processing and graphic solutions
4.3. Basic procedures and the on-field archaeologist’s survey kit
4.4. Drawing in concrete: some examples and comments about published graphic works
Week 5. Contexts: documenting architectures through plans and sections with elevation
5.1. Typology of the architectures, methods for documenting the architectures
5.2. How to deal with the drawing of a building
5.3. How and why drawing a plan
5.4. How and why drawing a section with elevation
Week 6. Contexts: architectures and their decoration
6.1. Decorated architectures: typology, topics and matters
6.2. The representation of architectural decoration and revetments: techniques and tasks
6.3. When the decoration guides the reconstruction: some examples from the Imperial Fora
6.4. Practical activity: how to document a piece of architectural decoration
Week 7. Contexts: the archaeological excavation and the action strategies in the working site
7.1. Planning a survey: typology of intervention, features of the area, available tools
7.2. In the working site: documenting the Stratigraphic Units through overlays and sections
7.3. In the working site: drawing the stratiphication in detail
7.4. In the working site: how to build up a section starting from the overlays.
Week 8. Contexts: the archaeological excavation and the interpretation of the evidence
8.1. Analysis of the documentation: defining phases and periods
8.2. Phase-plans: when, why and how to make them
8.3. Phase-sections with elevation: when, why and how to make them
8.4. Drawing in practice: how to make a phase-plan
Week 9. The archaeological documentation and the dissemination to the Public
9.1. The archaeological language: topics, styles, matters
9.2. The scientific virtual dissemination: an overview
9.3. The Artists of the archaeological account: the Inklink brand
9.4. Site-visit: the Museum of Crypta Balbi
(reference books)
Basic Bibliography
(further materials will be provided during the course)
G.P. Brogiolo, Prospettive per l’archeologia dell’architettura, in “Archeologia dell’Architettura”, 1, 1996, pp. 11-15.
A. Carandini, Storie dalla terra, Roma 20003: capitoli 3 e 4.
C. Mascione, Il rilievo strumentale in archeologia, Roma 2006.
M. Medri, Disegno ricostruttivo, in R. Francovich, D. Manacorda (a cura di), Dizionario di Archeologia, Roma 2002, pp. 133-138.
M. Medri, Manuale di rilievo archeologico, Roma 2003.
R. Merlo, Ricostruzioni per la divulgazione e la didattica, in R. Francovich, D. Manacorda (a cura di), Lo scavo archeologico dalla diagnosi all’edizione (Pontignano 1989), Firenze 1990, pp. 547-578.
F. Sommaini, V. Di Cola, V. Albano, L’Aula Ovest
del complesso di Domiziano tra Foro Romano e Palatino: metodologie
a confronto per un rilievo XXL, in Archeologia e Calcolatori, 30, 2019, pp. 251-272.
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