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Teacher
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Ascalone Enrico
(syllabus)
The programme aims to present the main artistic and architectural manifestations of Mesopotamia and Iran between the second half of the 4th and the end of the 3rd millennium BC. The study of the main cultural expressions of the individual peoples who ploughed the alluvial areas between the Tigris and the Euphrates, together with the coeval Elamite productions known on the Iranian plateau, will be tackled both with an art-historical approach and with a purely archaeological methodology that will allow us to define cultural horizons within specific stratum sequences. In this perspective, the course will be introduced by an adequate historical introduction, essential for the understanding of the cultural dynamics that followed one another in the Near East from the foundation of the first city (ca. 3500 B.C.) to the destruction of Ur (2004 B.C.).
(reference books)
E. Ascalone, I Sumeri, in La Storia dell’Arte. Le prime civiltà, Mondadori Electa, 2006, pp. 83-127.
- M. Liverani, Antico Oriente. Storia, Società, Economia, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 1988, pp. 107-200; 232-291.
- H. Frankfort, Arte e architettura dell’Antico Oriente, Torino 1970, pp. 5-68.
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