Università Roma Tre

A general overview of medieval Mediterranean art history will provide the opportunity to become familiar with cultural and artistic interchanges and connections between the Latin West, the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world. Students will also be equipped with basic information on the main materials and techniques used in the decorative arts and ornamentation of the Middle Ages.
The selection of academic texts and articles will provide a critical and historiographical perspective, equipping students with a methodological approach to art historical research and a basic awareness of formal and cultural categories such as figurative and aniconic, mimesis and abstraction, tradition and innovation, cross-cultural exchanges, centres and peripheries, centrality and marginality.