SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Summer 2012 Discipline: Art History ARTH 3559: Mediterranean Visual Culture Cross-listed as ARH 3500: Mediterranean Visual Culture Division: Upper Enrollment: 20 maximum Faculty Name: Lisa Reilly Pre-requisites: Previous course work in art/architectural history/history recommended COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the visual culture of the many peoples who occupy the lands bordering the Mediterranean. We will consider the ancient world of Greece and Rome, which laid the foundation for the Mediterranean world but focus on the middle ages (800-1400) with discussions of sites accessible during our voyage such as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Great Mosque at Cordoba and Old St. Peter s in Rome The Crusades are just one aspect of the many interactions between Muslim, Latin & Byzantine Christian and Jewish culture during the Middle Ages. Trade, intellectual exchange and diplomatic missions also provide rich opportunities for cultural exchange and interaction among these groups. Readings, field trips and class discussions will explore the nature of these interactions through an analysis of visual culture from the region. Readings will focus on primary sources such as the twelfth century travel diary of Muslim traveler Ibn Jubayr. FIELD LAB: Our field lab will be on July 21, 2012 in Istanbul We will spend the day exploring the many layers of the city s history by visiting Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman sites where students will have the opportunity to present material from assigned readings. Our itinerary, access permitting, will include the hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Kari Kamiye and Suleymaniye mosque. Classroom Etiquette: Class will begin promptly at????. each day. Each student is expected to be in attendance and prepared to begin at that time and to remain in class until the class is finished at?????. NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES ARE PERMITTED. This includes laptops, tablets, ipads, cell phones, pagers, and mp3s/ipods. No food is permitted. COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course will teach students how to analyze the complex interactions and layerings of classical, Byzantine, Latin Christian and Islamic civilizations around the Mediterranean 1
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS AUTHOR: Ibn Jubayr/ R. Broadhurst ed. TITLE: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr PUBLISHER: Goodwood Books ISBN #:8187570555 DATE/EDITION: 2001 COST: $25 AUTHOR: Eva R. Hoffman TITLE: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World PUBLISHER: Blackwell ISBN #:9781405120722 DATE/EDITION: 2007 COST: $49.95 new Author: Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina Title: Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 Publisher: Yale ISBN: 0-300-08869-8 Date/Edition 2003/2 nd Price: $31.98 Course Requirements: Requirements include assigned readings, class attendance, and participation, class presentation, paper and final exam. Final grades for the course will be based on grades assigned for the presentation, paper, attendance and participation. (Participation/Attendance= 33 1/3%, Paper= 33 1/3%, Presentation=33 1/3). The participation grade will be based on class attendance and informed participation in class discussion and in-class assignments. Students will be encouraged to keep a visual analysis journal of what they see throughout their voyage for use in their final presentations and epilogue. For their course presentation and paper, students will select topic from a list distributed in class and prepare a paper and presentation on that topic which focuses on how it represents the complex exchange and interaction of the Mediterranean. Course Outline: This syllabus is only intended as a guideline to the format of the course and is subject to change. You are expected to plan your readings to complement class lectures. All assigned readings should be done in time for that day s class meeting. 1. June 19: Introduction to Mediterranean Visual Culture: The Classical 2
Past Reading; Eva Hoffman, Remapping the Mediterranean in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World. 2. June 20: Late Antiquity Reading: Jas Elsner, The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art- Historical Problem of Style; Annabel Wharton, Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura-Europos in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World 3. June 21: Medieval Mediterranean: Latin Christian, Byzantine and Islamic Reading: Robert Ousterhout & D. Fairchild Ruggles. Encounters with Islam: The Medieval Mediterranean Gesta XLIII/2, 2004 pp. 83-5. Mohammad Al-Asad. Encounters: A Preliminary Anatomy Gesta XLIII/2, 2004, pp.177-81. B. Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 2. 4. June 22 Spain Reading: Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar & Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250. Introduction, Chapters 2-3. Oleg Grabar. Islamic Architecture & the West Influences & Parallels in Islam & The Medieval West pp. 60-6. R. Hillenbrand. Studies in Medieval Architecture vol. 1 pp. 254-69. 5. June 23: Spain Reading: Eva Hoffman Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christina Interchange from the 10 th -12 th Century in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World; D. Fairchild Ruggles, The Alcazar of Seville & Mudejar Architecture Gesta XLIII/2, 2004, pp. 87-98; J. Dodds et al ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain pages TBA. 6. June 24: Medieval Spain Reading: D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape, & Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain Introduction (xiii-xvi), Part I (3-32), Ch. 3 (Cordoba 35-52), Ch. 8 (Alhambra163-208), The Travels of Ibn Jubayr 7. June 25: Sicily Reading: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr pp. 335-52; W. Tronzo, The Cultures of His Kingdom, Chapters 1 & 3. 8. June 26: Sicily Eve Borsook, Messages in Mosaic: The Royal Mosaic Programmes of Norman Sicily 1130-1187. Hermans, J. "The Byzantine View of the Normans - Another Norman Myth?" Proceedings of the Battle Abbey Conference (Anglo-Norman Studies 1979): pp. 78-92. Spain June 27-June 30 Italy Day: July 1 3
Italy July 2-7 9. July 8: Constantinople Reading; Henry Maguire, The Good Life in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World 10. July 9: Constantinople Reading: Henry Maguire, Images of the Court and Robin Cormack, But is it Art? in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World Dubrovnik July 10-13 11. July 14: Istanbul Reading: Robert Ousterhout The East, the West and the Appropriation of the Past in Early Ottoman Architecture. Gesta XLIII/2, 2004 pp. 165-76. L. Rodley, Byzantine Art & Architecture ch. 2, 4. 12. July 15: Istanbul Reading: G. Necipoglu The Life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium in Hagia Sophia from the Ages of Justinian to the Present ed. by R Mark and A. Cakmak. Greece July 16-19 13. July 20: The Crusades Reading: J. Folda, The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. M. Georgopoulou. The Artistic World of the Crusaders and Oriental Christians in the 12 th and 13 th Centuries. Gesta XLIII/2, 2004, pp. 115-28. Anna Comnena: The Alexiad http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/annacomnena-alexiad.html Book 11 Gabrieli, F. transl. Arab Historians of the Crusades pages TBA Turkey July 21-25 Turkey Reflection Day July 26 14. July 27: Pilgrimage to Mecca Reading: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr 15. July 28: Dome of the Rock 16. July 29: North Africa: Reading: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Chapter 7 in Islamic art Architecture 650-1250 17. July 30: North Africa Reading: Erica Cruikshank Dodd, The Image of the Word in late Antique and Medieval art of the Mediterranean World 18. July 31 North Africa Morocco: August 1-4 19. August 5: Portugal Portugal August 6-9 Study Day August 10 20. August 11: Student Presentations 21. August 12: Student Presentations 22. August 13: Student Presentations 23. August 14: Student Presentations 4
August 15 Study Day 24. August 16: One page epilogue due 5