Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide knowledge of Hellenistic painting in the Mediterranean through the acquisition of methodological tools useful for understanding the pictorial experience in all its aspects (formal and stylistic, iconographic and technical). Within the course, the forms and contents of painting will be analysed in their social and political use, placed in their historical and cultural context. Closely related artistic genres will also be explored, such as figurative floor mosaics and stucco wall painting systems developed during this period.

Main reference texts at the Biblioteca Petrocchi:
P. Moreno, Pittura greca: da Polignoto ad Apelle, Milano 1987
A. Rouveret, Histoire et imaginaire de la peinture ancienne : 5. siècle av. J.-C. - 1. siècle ap. J.-C., Rome : École française de Rome, 1989.
H. Brecoulaki, La peinture funéraire de Macédoine: emplois et fonctions de la couleur IVe-IIe s. av. J.-C., Athènes-paris, De Boccard, 2006.
The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World, edited by J.J. Pollitt, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Additional teaching materials will be provided during the course of the lectures.